Three phases are important in human resources management. An example: someone who has intellectually recognized that they are overweight will only lose weight once they have also acknowledged this emotionally. Only then is it possible to set sail for new shores. First intellectual recognition, then emotional acknowledgment, then mental transformation. This is how the HR brand essence "confirmation through growth" could emerge. This is a process that cannot be prescribed or imposed. It can only happen through genuine insight and recognition on the part of many decision-makers.
I am endeavoring to make this visible and describe a possible path for the future of human resources management. A path that I know works in practice because the Grundl Leadership Institute has been implementing it for many years—against all initial resistance. Perhaps this now reads as arrogance to you and exposes pure self-promotion as the main motive. That is quite possible. As understandable as this assessment is, you would be greatly underestimating me.
How can people truly grow mentally?
True insight, just like human resources management, is aboutmental attitude, about the operating system rather than tools or apps. In the past, the answer was to think alike and use better tools. That no longer gets us anywhere. The necessary mental attitude be learnable through a well-thought-out methodology and didactics—logically structured and comprehensible. Simple calendar sayings are not enough.
Essentially, it's about answering the following questions: How can people truly grow mentally? How can they challenge themselves mentally and train their mental strength? How can they become aware of their mental abilities? How can they better cope with the challenges of today's world? How can they become mentally fitter and healthier? How can people become so great that they deliver strong results and make companies even stronger? How can we find ways to move from "higher-faster-further" to "more flexible-clearer-deeper"? How can we find ways not to squeeze the lemon even more (self-optimization mania), but to enlarge the fruit? How can this be done?
My theories:
- Intellectual growth requires mental effort. Without it, it is not possible. There is a price to pay: mental effort leads to mental growth.
- Consistent transformation processes are needed. This requires clear, well-thought-out methodology and didactics that have been proven in practice.
- We need coaches who enjoy challenging themselves and others mentally and who embody mental transformation in their own lives. Who fall in love with people's potential. Who are positively uncomfortable and demanding. Who do not prostitute themselves emotionally.
- It requires a combination of personal inspiration and location-independent learning, both online and offline.
- Consistent implementation periods and the ability to measure and map learning progress are required.
- All possible excuses should be eliminated in advance—just as you would reduce the contents of your refrigerator to a minimum when trying to lose weight.
- Resilience research has shown us that people grow in life either by overcoming crises or through a prolonged experience of meaning. The latter can be conveyed through a meaningful school of thought.
- We need more people who positively compel us to do what we could do.
- It's about striking a balance between closeness and distance – a kind of distant closeness.
So instead of focusing on recognition in the here and now, human resources management could focus on recognition for intellectual growth. It's a small difference with an incredibly big impact! That is what the future is all about. That is the future raison d'être for HR. So that human development is not the first thing to fall victim to budget cuts, but is taken just as seriously as the purchase of a machine. Either disruption happens voluntarily now, or it will soon happen under duress.
Yours, Boris Grundl
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