2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety
(155a) Transformational Leadership: Creating a High Performance Team from a Diverse Pool
Author
Poddar, S. - Presenter, Poddar Associates
With globalization, the workforce mix in any organization is shifting to a more diverse pool of employees. The diversity is encompassing, not just in distribution of age & gender, but also in bringing variability in culture, work ethics, knowledge base and standards & norms.
The presentation will address the leadership challenges and opportunities created by such diversity. It will highlight the special skillset of leadership style needed to harness this diversity and creating a unified team who could outperform expectations.