Leadership Development - Not a weekend get-away



India Incorporate – both large and small do not lack any conviction on the “intent” of leadership development but there definitely lies disparity in “implementation” on ground zero.

Traditionally it is always the first two layers in the organization, who monopolizes the limelight of these conversations. However as time progresses we have realized the importance of including couple of levels lower than the prevailing leadership level into the development purview.

Once the foundation is over, the casting process begins by identifying the group of people who will go through this process. Leadership development is not a linear process and require to be addressed from multiple directions. In today’s context self-induced training are generating more results and success as they directly correlate the self-learning impetus with the desired outcome. Various such initiatives of self-induced leanings are – leaders as teachers, Learning Application Projects (LAP), Book review club, Movie review club, brown bag with boss, leaders thought sharing etc. The best way to learn is by practicing and these mechanisms offer perfect platforms.

At the penultimate stage the leaders present the Action Learning plans or LAP to the top management to highlight the learning from the program and establish its linkages with business drivers.

It can be concluded, that leadership development is a transformation process. It does not happen over a weekend and above all, making leadership development an ongoing priority is a strategy for generating the capability and enthusiasm that propel innovation and drive results along with creating sustained value.

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