Leadership Development

 Enabler to Growth, Innovation, Integration and/or Transformation

Why Now?

  • ¡Business strategy requires different or expanded leadership requirements
  • ¡Rapid growth requires leaders to transition from operations to strategy
  • ¡Increased complexity due to globalization, matric structure…
  • ¡Need for integration and alignment
  • ¡New CEO change in direction
Leadership Development – Sample Activities
  • ¡Development of your leadership model or align current model to business strategy
    • lMapped to business strategies
    • lThe vital few vs. a laundry list of many
    • lWritten in your words/language of your business/culture
    • lInternalized and driven by your senior team
    • lBasis for 360 feedback mechanisms and gap analysis
  • ¡Use model to develop success profiles for key positions
    • Focus on key differentiators between key positions in the pipeline
  • ¡Design and facilitate activities (skill building, programs, action learning, leadership forums, lesson learned meetings, etc.) to mobilize align and develop leaders
  • ¡Align your people processes
    • lRecruiting and selection
    • lTalent progression
    • lCurriculum design
    • lPerformance management
    • lCompensation
Leadership Model Development
  • Business/Strategic Plan (Future Focused)
  • Interviews to identify required leadership behaviors
    • Board, Senior Team, thought leaders
    • Best practices, competitors, etc.
  • Draft model with behavioral statements and map to business strategies
  • Compare to research database
  • Reviewed, discussed, agreed upon by senior team – as a group
  • Test and validation
  • Communication, rollout, and implementation
Leadership Development Benefits
  • Leadership Model
    • Align, mobilize and develop leaders and their teams
    • Clarify the rules of the game
    • Launch a new era of leadership
    • Provide a common language to discuss leadership
    • Serve as a foundation to align HR/people processes
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