The Benefits of Leadership Development, Especially at Scale
Our white paper explores what research suggests are the direct benefits of leadership development (i.e., program-specific outcomes) and the indirect benefits of development (including increased employee engagement, retention, and attractiveness to potential employees).
It outlines 4 key leadership development benefits that have emerged from both our own and other research, noting that investments in enterprise-wide development at scale can create competitive advantage for organizations by fostering better leadership:
- Facilitate organizational alignment,
- Enhance the organization’s change readiness,
- Promote inclusion and belonging, and
- Strengthen leadership pipelines.
Creating Competitive Advantage Through Leadership
When implemented effectively and comprehensively, leadership development has the potential to grow individuals and transform an entire organization from being one that merely meets its objectives into one that excels.
That’s why we say that one of the key benefits of leadership development, especially at scale, is also simply that it creates competitive leadership advantage. And having a competitive leadership advantage not only raises the organization’s level of leadership capacity, developing a healthy leadership pipeline for the future, but also enables organizational agility, which is essential in today’s era of constant disruption.
One of the most critical drivers of organizational success in adapting to change is effective leadership at all levels — not just at the top.
To create the engagement and productivity required for this level of performance, leaders need to inspire others, drive innovation, collaborate across boundaries, and create an environment of psychological safety and inclusion. But these leadership skills don’t simply emerge and spread throughout the organization on their own. It takes focused effort and intentional strategy to optimize the leadership talent organizations need today and in the future.
Building these needed skills, from the top to the bottom of your organization, can feel like an impossible task. How can you possibly get quality development into the hands of all employees to fully leverage the benefits of leadership development?
The answer is by implementing a leadership development initiative that can be scaled. A scalable leadership development program is one that can easily be adapted and executed across an organization, regardless of its size or structure. A scalable development program unlocks leadership development’s benefits and creates significant competitive leadership advantage.
Download our white paper today to learn the many benefits of leadership development and how to scale it to start building a stronger talent pipeline at your organization.
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Download this paper to learn more about what research has identified are the direct and indirect benefits of leadership development, and how scaling development can create significant competitive leadership advantage for organizations.
