Paydata’s ‘Rewarding You’ event explores the future of business

The industrial age notion of how organisations work is being challenged by new ways of working. However, actually letting go of habits, beliefs, processes and attachments that no longer serve leaders and their organisations is another matter.

Blaire explored the importance of how leadership can truly bring about the step change needed to embrace the future. She highlighted the importance of being responsive and the notion of ‘bug fixing’ – encouraging leaders to fail fast, fail quickly in order to be their own disruptor. By challenging myths around leadership, Blaire tackled outdated notions of what has been done historically to identify how true innovation can be achieved.

Our half-day session enabled our guests to talk through the issues that they currently face and understand the approach of other organisations operating across a variety of sectors. With over two decades of experience inside the boardrooms of international companies, Blaire framed our discussions about the challenges of new approaches to working by introducing alternatives to conventional hierarchy in the workplace.

We explored concepts such as Teal organisations that Frank Laloux writes about in ‘Reinventing Organisations’. Teal businesses are agile, non-hierarchical and self-managing: driven by their purpose. We touched upon using an organisation’s higher purpose as a compass for mapping out change. Our guests were truly challenged to re-think how leaders can disrupt the status quo.