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Leadership Development & Executive Development
Strong leadership is critical to organizational effectiveness, and leadership development helps keep your leadership effective.
How effective is your leadership team? We can help you find out and take action if skill development is required.
Whether you need to identify leadership skills/competencies, or create a leadership development program, a one-time leadership training event that boosts specific leadership skills, or one-on-one coaching, our assessment, training, and/or consulting services could be what you need.
What is Leadership Development? What is Executive Development?
You know how critical leadership skills (and hence, leadership development programs) are to organizational effectiveness.
Leadership involves a person's ability to inspire, influence, and enable others to contribute toward organizational effectiveness. Leaders create a vision, set direction, and provide people with objectives, tools, and incentives.
Leadership development describes a wide range of activities that are aimed at enhancing leadership skills (leadership competencies), including assessment and feedback, reading, instructor-led training, online learning, coaching, mentoring, or on-the-job assignments. We often recommend an approach that incorporates several or all of these activities into a leadership development program. Executive development simply refers to developing the leadership skills, or other skills, of executives in your organization. One-on-one coaching is often used for executives.
About Our Leadership Development Services and Products
Leadership development can be challenging because:
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Sometimes it's hard to find out which leadership skills need to be developed.
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Different leaders have different areas for development.
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It's hard to choose the right blend of activities.
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Costs and benefits of various options must be determined and weighed.
Take advantage of our more than 15 years experience in leadership development to:
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Help you identify what your leaders need through leadership skills assessment.
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Use your leadership competencies or ours, or some combination.
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Help create leadership development plans for individuals or groups.
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Develop custom leadership and management training and other learning activities (whether it's one course or a leadership development program).
Examples of our leadership development topics include:
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Strategic thinking
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Change management
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Talent management
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Employee engagement
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Emotional intelligence
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Ethics
Examples of managerial training topics include:
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Delegation
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Coaching
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Conflict resolution
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Motivation
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Decision-making
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Managing teams
We listen to your needs, then work within your budget and recommend actions and solutions that fit your culture.
Why Do So Many Leaders Need Leadership Development?
In many organizations, the tendency has been to promote or hire people who have the strongest technical (job-specific) skills into management positions. They have usually achieved superior results as individual contributors primarily due to their technical skills, so people think that they will be great leaders and managers too. It's an assumption that usually doesn't work out.
What Traits Can Derail Leaders?
You might be familiar with leadership derailers. If a leader has any of the traits listed below, he/she needs to improve them or possibly face a derailed leadership career. Organizational Development Consultants can help your leaders understand these traits and assess whether they have any of them.
Lacking integrity
Arrogant
Untrustworthy
Unable to change
Perfectionist
Aloof
Moody
Attention-seeking (taking credit inappropriately)
Indecisive
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