Category: Leadership Development

Innovation

Entrepreneurial Leadership Part 1: Why is it important?

Earlier this year I received an invitation from the President of the Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico.  The theme of the 11th annual Mentoring Conference was to be Mentoring, Coaching and Leadership for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  They wanted me to deliver a keynote speech.  The title was How to Develop Innovative, Entrepreneurial

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How to Cultivate a Diverse Culture that Develops Female Talent

“How’s your organisation doing with regard to gender equality? Do you have many women at senior levels?” This line will be familiar to professionals in HR. It’s a focus for many who have recognised that gender inequality in the workplace costs companies. It impacts financial performance, idea innovation, market share, team collaboration and much more.

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leadership roles

How to Identify Your Critical Leadership Roles

In my last blog post I talked about the need to align your leadership development strategy with your business strategy.  And that means identifying the leadership roles that will be critical to success.  That’s what this blog post is about. While every role in your company is important, not every role is critical or strategic. Critical

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leadership development strategy

How to Align Your Leadership Development Strategy with Your Business Strategy

Did you know that only a quarter of organisations say their leadership development programmes are effective at improving performance? Research by McKinsey shows that one of the biggest mistakes companies make is they don’t align their leadership development strategy with their business strategy. So, let’s fix that.  This blog post looks at how you can

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leadership development initiative

How to Get Buy-In for a Leadership Development Initiative

Leadership development is something that every organisation knows it should do. But why? What will it help you achieve? What problems will it help you avoid or address? What would be the benefits of investing the time and money in a leadership development initiative? If you don’t have the answers, it will be hard to

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successful leadership development\

Five Powerful Beliefs to Guide Successful Leadership Development

Successful leadership development is a goal many of us strive for. When you’re responsible for developing leaders in a fast-growing company, you have many questions to answer. How can you develop the confident and skilful leaders your company needs for its continued growth and success? How can you do it in a way that is dynamic

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Biggest Leadership challenges

The 3 Biggest Leadership Challenges of Fast-Growth Companies

The fast-paced environment in which they thrive leaves many fast-growing companies facing three key leadership challenges. I call them the Three Cs – Capacity, Capability and Culture. 1. Capacity If an organisation is to grow, it needs the right people and the right leadership. A shortage of leaders at every level is the biggest challenge

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Why strategic leadership development is critical for business growth

I’ll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn’t pay enough attention to developing their leaders. Wayne Calloway, former Chairman, PepsiCo Inc. Here’s the bottom line: companies which don’t invest in developing their leaders make less than half the revenue per employee compared to

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developing great leaders

Developing Great Leaders – Our Top Ten Resources in 2017

It’s that time of the year when everyone reviews what’s happened this year and all the “best of” lists surface. Here’s ours. Our top 10 resources from 2017 for developing great leaders. In other words, these are our most viewed blog posts and resources in 2017.  I hope you find them interesting and useful. Developing Great

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accelerated leadership development

Accelerated Leadership Development for Fast-Growing Organisations

Accelerated growth requires accelerated leadership development and that means accelerated behaviour change.  Business results, business change and business success all stem from the behaviour of individuals. If your leaders are going to develop their leadership skills, they need to experiment with small changes in behaviours. Even after very basic training sessions, adults typically retain just

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