Developing leadership skills in your people or in yourself is a complex and long process -no doubt about it.
If you have attended leadership programs (on-site or off-site), you would have noticed that they tend to be
-high on philosophy
-high on words or
-high on exercises or games that have nothing to do with your actual work
Someone might explain their utility by saying that one learns through analogy and transferring the “learning” to one’s work situation.
Does it really happen this way?
And look -when one learned maths one learned by doing those actual sums, to develop muscles you need to work those very muscles. Our real learning happens only by doing things, committing and correcting errors (usually under some guidance).
Development of leadership skills require learning to think and act like a leader. Why is it different for leadership development? should it be?
Our web based Learning Leadership services fulfill this crucial need. Try them! You will notice the difference.
Hemant
As a CEO do you think about the returns on cost of time and money spent on training?
Particularly notorious is management (leadership) development area. There are many outbound programs. Everyone including the trainers are happy. Are you happy too?
Reports say that many companies are waking up and asking serious questions. If your company is doing well, you can probably put down the expenditures as part of budget (employee welfare!).
But the hard question is -are you developing a pipeline of leaders who can power your growth?
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An do contact me for coaching support.
Hemant
I was in the market for buying a laptop to replace my old workhorse. Before I stumbled upon what I needed -I must have made a dozen visits to various shops and dealers in Pune -I had to suffer speaking to half-wits who were designated as customer executives, for whom the weight or the battery life of a laptop didn’t matter. The experience is the same if one wants buy a music system.
If you have dealt with new technology powered banks, you may have dealt with ill-suited products, unhelpful or ignorant staff. My question to HDFC Bank on digitally signed documents remains unanswered - I can not run their signature endorser application on my Vista machine. It just ran fine on good old windows XP machine.
It is very hard to come across knowledgeable people or well designed services which can make your life easier. Imagine people like you and me have to sweat it out to buy things!
I am afraid, for all the talk of talent development very little is done on the ground. The growth in economies around the world has made attracting and retaining talent a very critical necessity for companies. Executive salaries are hitting new highs like crude prices but there is no talk of managerial or leadership output!
Don’t you think that companies ought to put their people to through leadership development paces (and not send them off on a training vacation)?
Hemant
