HUMAN IMPACT FACTOR – New efficacy in leadership
How leaders with social performance skills, problem-solving abilities, flexibility, and future orientation can achieve impact and strengthen teams.
What distinguishes human effectiveness from mere efficiency and from algorithms? How do I prevent typical mistakes in the future – impatience, rigid thinking, and stagnant thinking – within my team? How do I strengthen focus, perseverance, and belief updating among employees? How do I combine digital competence with human clarity? #irreplaceable
NEW EFFICACY? WHAT IS THAT?
Leading to renewed effectiveness means developing the power to achieve results – both within oneself and within the team.
New effectiveness for leaders lies in the ability to secure results even without routines. With problem-solving skills, flexibility, a socially responsible approach to results, and future-oriented thinking, they strengthen teams and organizations.
For leaders, this means not only managing processes in a digital world, but also exemplifying orientation, courage, and clarity – and thus becoming indispensable.
How can this be achieved? Research reveals four key characteristics that make all the difference: future orientation, problem-solving skills, mental agility, determination, and the ability to achieve positive social outcomes. Strengthening these dimensions in leadership prevents typical pitfalls in the future – impatience, rigid thinking, and stagnation – and transforms uncertainty into effectiveness. In this way, leadership becomes a source of efficacy and trust in times of change.
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have faith in people.
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Back in 2016, I co-authored the study "Digital Enlightenment" with the Future Institute. Our current research explains why some people act faster, more clearly, and more effectively in a complex world. Studies—including our own—prove:
The power of results explains 40% of the differences in critical thinking.
It accounts for 18% of the difference in social outcome capacity,
It influences 22% of the ability to change one's mind and update beliefs –
and it ensures that people focus 71% better and persevere with difficult tasks.
In short: New effectiveness is the psychological driving force that makes us indispensable – especially in the age of AI. Even back then, we called for a non-technical mindset, a "Human Digitality." This is a proactive approach to networking and information.
HOW DO I BRING THE HUMAN IMPACT FACTOR TO LIFE?
Leadership in the technology-driven workplace means living from experience. Of course, there's a brief, concise look at the research to ensure a solid foundation. This is followed by some surprising, small interventions; for example, our brains distort the future: we overreact to impending negative outcomes and squander opportunities out of anticipation. This leads to weak decisions – too little innovation, too much procrastination. Therefore, leading with foresight means consciously managing timing, factoring in emotions, and outsmarting our own "emotional time machine." Then come the leadership hacks. Leaders experience...
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how consistent visions of the future change decisions in the present.
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that intellectual humility is the art of recognizing one's own limitations and embracing new things.
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How actively open thinking helps to consciously allow contradictions and .
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Determination becomes visible through our newly developed " Sense Of Agency Mixer" .
How does this mixer work? It's like a mixing console with crucial controls for NEW EFFECTIVENESS. The goal: to get all controls to 75%, both in self-assessment and with the team. That's the sweet spot for results in the AI age.
The message: NEW EFFECTIVENESS can be trained – and makes leadership in the AI age human, effective and irreplaceable.
THE TAKEAWAYS
Uncertainty is not a disruptive factor, but a raw material – those who embrace it transform dread into energy and clarity.
The power to achieve results can be trained – through tools such as future self-image, intellectual humility, active-open and dialectical thinking.
Timing is crucial – not only what you decide, but when and how quickly it shapes the emotional impact.
Avoid future mistakes – impatience, rigid thinking and archival thinking block impact more than any AI.
Leading means remaining irreplaceable – not through answers, but through questions, guidance, and exemplifying human effectiveness.