The Bridge from Good Leadership to Great Leadership!
Many organizations say they are investing in leadership. But when you look closer, they usually mean leadership development: training, coaching, workshops, and other ways to build the skills of individual managers or high-potential employees.
That matters. But it is not enough.
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The SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) national conference is the world’s largest gathering of human resource professionals with 375 sessions and expected onsite and online attendance of 26,000 people. It will take place at the San Diego Convention Center, June 29th to July 2nd. Learn more about the conference at: https://annual.shrm.org/.
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Watch Professor Bennett’s interview with Grant McGaugh, CEO of 5 STAR BDM on how the Elite Leadership Academy uses data to help people become better leaders.
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The retail pioneer, John Wanamaker, once stated, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half”. The chain of department stores he started eventually became part of Macy’s. Even in today’s digital advertising age, that statement is still true, with more than half being wasted according to some experts. The same is very true of leadership development programs.
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It is if it doesn’t include a leadership resources management solution to help your organization identify and segment their leadership resources using a quantifiable, repeatable and unbiased assessment tool. It can be the difference between keeping and losing your best leaders, the difference between identifying and missing high potential hires, and the difference between promoting people based on leadership potential or based on prior functional success or relationships.
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A leadership program should be an asset for any organization to enroll their people in to drive growth. Too many of these programs are simply motivational speaking exercises without providing any clear direction on what the attendee should do when they walk out the door. A well-designed leadership program should motivate the attendees to become better leaders and provide them with the tools to implement a personalized leadership strategy. Once this is done, the organization should be able to measure quantifiable results from their investment.
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My view of leadership has been honed over a 30-plus years career performing and observing leaders at all levels of management. I began codifying my leadership development vision as a professor at Judson University, in their leading Organizational Leadership program. This experience, along with additional research and personal interviews, formed the foundation for the Elite Leadership Process™ detailed in my first leadership book, Prescribing Leadership in Healthcare in 2017. Since then, I have refined my vision with additional research and interviews for second leadership book, The Path to Elite Level Leadership in 2021. Something that I’ve come to realize and accept is that many of the positions I’ve chosen on leadership are contrary to those of many of my colleagues, namely:
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The importance of quantifiably measuring and monitoring leadership progress cannot be stressed enough. If leadership behavior is not measured, it can’t be improved. As the data scientist, W. Edwards Deming states, “Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.”
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In the 1991 movie City Slickers, Billy Crystal plays Mitch, a man going through a midlife crisis who joins two of his friends on a cattle drive in the southwest. While on the drive, Mitch asks Curly, in Jack Palance’s Academy Award winning performance as the cowhand, “Do you know what the secret of life is?” Curly holds up one finger and tells him, “One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean s@#t.” When Mitch ask him what the one thing is, Curly tells him, “That’s what you have to find out.”
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve been discussing the importance of measuring outcomes from leadership development programs. Most organizations don’t do it for one reason or another. Without any way of measurement, the individual and/or organization can’t empirically know what needs to be improved.
Continue reading “Leadership Impact Assessment Results – C-Level Executives”