The quality of your leadership drives the performance of the organization. We accelerate your strategy and business results by bringing individualized leadership development to your organization. We drive results by partnering with organizations to align leadership strategy and business goals with individualized development plans, optimizing the organizational environment for leadership and harnessing the energy of a well-developed workforce.
Our Leader Development Roadmap helps you match the right learning at the right time for each leader, whether it’s Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading Managers, Leading The Function, or Leading The Organization. Our roadmap meets you where you are and takes you where you and your organization want to go. By focusing on the skills critical for success at each level, your organization can see faster results and build individualized leadership development that will give you a big return on investment.
Our approach to individual leadership development is based on our Leader Development Roadmap.
Our Roadmap for an Individual Development Plan & Leadership Skills
The Leader Development Roadmap connects the challenges leaders face every day with the essential skills they need to be successful at each of five leader levels:
Individual contributors, professional staff and emerging leaders
Our Research Has Found 4 Competencies Critical at Every Leader Level
Based on research and experience with over a million leaders, we have identified 4 leadership skills that are critical at every level of leadership development. We focus on these “Fundamental Four” competencies across all of our individual development offerings in addition to specific key challenges and competencies which you can explore below.
Explore the challenges and competencies specific to each level:
Sustain Leader Development
Leadership skills should continue to evolve and adapt in order to meet the constantly changing conditions and challenges of a global marketplace. Our Roadmap connects leaders to the right development at the right time. With the Roadmap, organizations have the information they need to steer individualized leadership development, fuel sustained success, and prepare all leaders for what’s next.
Challenges
- Prepare for management or leadership role
- Build a common leadership language within an organization
- Increase personal effectiveness and performance
Competencies
- Establishing credibility
- Leading with purpose
- Delivering results
- Doing whatever it takes
- Interpersonal savvy
- Embracing flexibility
- Tolerating ambiguity
- Understanding one’s own values and culture
The competencies above are specific to this leader level, but also include the “Fundamental Four” Leader Competencies which are common across all leader levels:
Self Awareness, Learning Agility, Influence, Communication.
Challenges
- Transistion from individual performer to leading a team
- Build relationships to get work done
- Deal effectively with conflict
- Solve problems successfully
Competencies
- Coaching and developing others
- Leading team achievement
- Building and maintaining relationships
- Resolving conflict
- Learning to delegate
- Innovative problem solving
- Adapting to cultural differences
The competencies above are specific to this leader level, but also include the “Fundamental Four” Leader Competencies which are common across all leader levels:
Self Awareness, Learning Agility, Influence, Communication.
Challenges
- Integrate cross-functional perspectives in decisions
- Handle complexity
- Manage politics
- Sell ideas to senior leaders
- Select and lead managers for high performance
Competencies
- Thinking and acting systemically
- Managing organizational complexity
- Negotiating adeptly
- Selecting and developing others
- Implementing change
- Taking risks
- Managing globally dispersed teams
- Building resiliency
The competencies above are specific to this leader level, but also include the “Fundamental Four” Leader Competencies which are common across all leader levels:
Self Awareness, Learning Agility, Influence, Communication.
Challenges
- Set vision and build toward the future
- Balance trade-offs between the short- and long-term
- Align the organization for strategy implementation
Competencies
- Being visionary
- Driving results
- Strategic thinking and acting
- Creating engagement
- Identifying innovation opportunities for new business
- Working across boundaries
- Leading globally
The competencies above are specific to this leader level, but also include the “Fundamental Four” Leader Competencies which are common across all leader levels:
Self Awareness, Learning Agility, Influence, Communication.
Challenges
- Set organizational direction
- Foster alignments across the organization
- Gain commitment for performance
- Refine and build strong executive persona
Competencies
- Creating and articulating vision
- Creating strategic alignment
- Developing a leadership and talent strategy aligned with business strategy
- Leading the culture
- Executive image
- Creating a culture of innovation
- Catalyzing change
- Leading outwardly
The competencies above are specific to this leader level, but also include the “Fundamental Four” Leader Competencies which are common across all leader levels:
Self Awareness, Learning Agility, Influence, Communication.
