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Leadership Development 2 - The What


What are the most essential leadership skill sets needed to keep your organization moving forward? How do the most effective leaders within your organization make decisions? When you can develop clarity around the answers to these questions and a few more essential ones, you are on your way to establishing the "What" of your corporate leadership culture that is most important to pass on through your leadership development program. There is no shortage of leadership content out there to choose from. It would be significantly more effective to decide which are the most important corporate dragons to slay before deciding on what weapons to use.

Developed or Adopted

The leadership style and practices that has enabled your organization to thrive and flourish have served you well. Have they been created from the ground up, or have they been adopted externally? It is most likely a little bit of both. Whether your leadership style is transformational or more inclined toward stewardship, autocratic, or more relational, there are fingerprints of many different leadership evangelists all over your work and your organization. What is most likely original is how these theories have been applied to your specific context. This is the key part of the "What" for your leadership development program. This is the part that cannot be acquired though a webinar or a face-to-face workshop. You can choose to focus on endless examples of leadership theory, but will benefit most from examining the ones you have successfully applied throughout the years and understanding why they have worked.

Theory of Practice

How do you want your leaders to think? How do they make decisions? What type of questions do they ask? Having the answers to these questions will not only help you to develop the leaders that are already in place, but it will also start helping you to find the next ones that you will be needing.

  • Problem Solving Strategies

  • Adjustment Cycles

  • Long & Short Term Planning Processes

  • Feedback Loops

  • Communication Strategies

How do these practices, when executed successfully, exist within your organization? How these things work, or more specifically, how they work within your organization, will inform much of the content that is developed and delivered to your next generation of leaders.

Next... Leadership Development 3 - The Who - "Sifting and Lifting"


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