Leadership Development
Sharon will assist you in assessing and establishing your personal Leadership Development goals by quantifying your value and linking that to a Strategic Career Plan.
What is Leadership Development: From the Gartner company:
https://www.gartner.com/en/human-resources/glossary/leadership-development
Leadership development is a set of activities that prepare current and future leaders to perform effectively in their roles. Leadership development enables employees to improve their skills in areas such as:
- Decision making
- Project management
- Strategy
- Network building
- Team management
- Innovation
- Coaching and developing others
What is Leadership Development: From McKinsey & Company:
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-is-leadership
Leaders aren’t born; they learn to lead over time. Neuroplasticity refers to the power of the brain to form new pathways and connections through exposure to novel, unfamiliar experiences. This allows adults to adapt, grow, and learn new practices throughout our lifetimes.
When it comes to leadership within organizations, this is often referred to as leadership development. Programs, books, and courses on leadership development abound, but results vary.
Leadership development efforts fail for a variety of reasons. Some overlook context; in those cases, asking a simple question (something like “What, precisely, is this program for?”) can help. Others separate reflections on leadership from real work, or they shortchange the role of adjusting leaders’ mindsets, feelings, assumptions, and beliefs, or they fail to measure results.
So what’s needed for successful leadership development? Generally, developing leaders is about creating contexts where there is sufficient psychological safety in combination with enough novelty and unfamiliarity to cultivate new leadership practices in response to stimuli. Leadership programs that successfully cultivate leaders are also built around “placescapes”—these are novel experiences, like exploring wilderness trails, practicing performing arts, or writing poetry.
When crafting a leadership development program, these are the key steps to incorporate that lead to true organizational impact:
- Focus your leadership transformation on driving strategic objectives and initiatives.Commit the people and resources needed.
- Engage a critical mass of leaders to reach a tipping point for sustained impact.Zero in on the leadership shifts that drive the greatest value.
- Architect experiential journeys to maximize shifts in mindsets, capabilities, and practices.
- Measure for holistic impact.
A well-designed and executed leadership development program can help organizations build leaders’ capabilities broadly, at scale. And these programs can be built around coaching, mentoring, and having people try to solve challenging problems—learning skills by applying them in real time to real work.
