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Podcast: Leadership Article Review Podcast
Episode: Empowering Leaders to Drive Meaningful Change from Within, with Jonathan H. Westover PhD
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Abstract: This article outlines an approach for empowering organizational leaders to drive meaningful and sustainable cultural change from within. It begins by emphasizing the importance of cultivating intrinsic motivation over extrinsic compliance through satisfying psychological needs and appealing to higher goals and purposes. Four key enabling conditions are also identified that provide leaders optimal environments for change initiatives: systems thinking perspective, psychological safety, distributed leadership models, and dynamic supports. With motivation and framework conditions optimized, leaders can directly apply techniques proven to influence behaviors, such as feedback, collaborative goal setting, and identity reframing. Examples from healthcare and manufacturing illustrate...