How Neutrality Increases Productivity?
Some cultures promote the exchange and sharing of opinions, through clearly open and free communication. Conversely, other cultures are more reserved or establish more radical codes of communication.
Each company finds, according to its origins and its culture, tailor-made communication codes.
In France, country of the Revolution and Freedoms, expressing one’s personal point of view on questions such as politics or religions, in business or anywhere else, is a right that cannot be confiscated.
Neutrality and Management
That being said, the communication of the manager (and in fact, of the interim manager), very often benefits from a neutral framework.
For what ?
Expressing one’s convictions, whatever they may be, is obviously a fundamental freedom. That said, in the business world, it is sometimes good to be content with purely professional exchanges, or at least exchanges that do not involve personal opinions and beliefs.
A manager who would lose his neutrality would perhaps sometimes be the trigger for rivalries and splits.
Common Sense and Benevolence
The main concern of a lack of neutrality is the embarrassment, the inconvenience, that this could cause between collaborators and even vis-à-vis customers.
Everyone’s political and religious commitments are free and private. Sometimes, an overzealous or proselytizing attitude makes the interlocutors uncomfortable, and can go so far as to harm the proper functioning of the company.
This is how interim managers use their talent as an outstanding communicator. Most of the time, employees or co-managers who lose their neutrality have no intention of harming the company, but are carried away by strong personal emotions.
The interim manager therefore takes the time to listen and communicate with kindness, to resolve these temporarily awkward situations.
Transition Management and Force of Neutrality
It goes without saying, therefore, that interim managers must be completely apolitical and non-religious during their duties in the company.
Their neutrality is in fact a strength, a powerful asset on which their clients rely heavily. They are fully focused on their mission and its success. Nothing can confuse them during the mission or make them lose their determination.
They have only one objective: the success of their mission for the company.
If you also want to use interim management and its advantages such as neutrality, don’t hesitate! Contact us, we will be happy to put the talents of extraordinary interim managers to good use for your company’s needs.
