The Intentional Design of Stewardship: A Case Study

Major Findings Regarding Leadership Functioning
• Increasing concern about interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence (process issue)
• All three of the attitude/culture changes are important
• Virtual workplace (the “virtual culture”)
• Agility and flexibility
• Managing transitions

Major Findings Regarding Team Functioning
• Increasing challenge of temporary teams and projects
• Managing transitions (stages of team development)

Major Findings Regarding Executive Coaching Perspectives and Practices
• Challenge of coaching about flattening of organizations (span analysis)
• Challenge of coaching about the management of transitions (Bill Bridges: living and leading in the neutral zone)

Challenging Perspective I
The changes identified in this survey are not new. They have been taking place in many organizations for many years. [Response: yes, they have been taking place for many years—but have been accelerating during the past couple of years as a result of COVID-19, as well as communication-based technological breakthroughs and the accelerating globalization of many businesses.]

Challenging Perspective II
Many of the concepts underlying these descriptions of organizational change (such as VUCA) are not new and have often been overused or mis-interpreted. [Response: these concepts might not be new, but they are still quite relevant – and often have been updated (as is the case with “VUCA-Plus”]