Improving Leadership
Improving leadership to deliver leadership development and leadership performance. Leadership Connections offers leadership assessment and leadership development services for businesses, executives and senior management keen on improving leadership
Identifying & Improving Leadership
Your problems?
Do you have enough good leaders in your organisation?
Is there a common understanding on what good leadership means and looks like?
Do you have a plan to retain, develop, motivate and deploy your best leaders?
Do your leaders need to take more
ownership of their own development?
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Our solutions
We can help you assess the quality of your leaders and create a plan for
developing them - including engaging them in developing themselves.
To get a better feel of some of our approaches see:-
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Supporting leaders to overcome their obstacles and develop themselves - through coaching and mentoring
Increasing the effectiveness of management teams through leadership team development
Identifying and improving leadership across the organisation through talent management and leadership development
Mobilising large groups for change through creating inspiring conferences and motivational speaking
Increasing the effectiveness of the Human Resources function through HR strategy and skills development
Identifying and Improving Leadership
Increasing performance by developing your leaders and their leadership
There is a huge amount of research and literature which confirms that Leadership is central to the culture and results of all kinds in organisations. Enhancing leadership is the critical element to improving efficiency, morale, customer service and, ultimately, performance. Strong leadership has a multiplier effect: Good leaders develop and grow good leaders
Teams led by good leaders outperform those run by poor leaders and those high performing individuals will either go on to make an ever greater difference in your organisation as they take on bigger and bigger roles or they will leave and do the same thing for someone else.
But who are the best leaders in your organisation? How do you know? Is there even agreement on what leadership means?
What about the main body of your managers? Most of them won’t be
high flyers but will nonetheless be central to keeping the organisation
going. How do you develop their leadership skills and keep them motivated
without promoting them beyond their ability?
Identifying and Improving Leadership - what we do
We can help you create a description of what great leaders do in your organisation. This will use a combination of best practice from leading organisations and leading edge thinking from the academic world. It will also build in the crucial leadership characteristics in your organisation, industry and situation.
Once this is in place and agreed we can help you use it to:
- Create an appetite in your leaders to take their own development seriously.
- Create clear descriptions of great leadership for your leaders.
- Develop your leaders ability to engage and develop their people.
- Assess your leaders’ capabilities for deployment or development.
- Improve your recruitment process to ensure that you are recruiting the best new talent.
- Create development programmes to accelerate leadership development.
Identifying and Improving Leadership - how?
Although the approach is tailored to each organisation it has three phases.
- We talk to leaders, frontline staff, customers and suppliers of your organisation to create a clear understanding of your leadership needs and priorities.
- We create, in partnership with you, a description of great leadership in your organisation using the findings of our research and external best practice.
- We agree and communicate the framework to everyone in the organisation who has a responsibility for recruiting, managing, developing and deploying leaders.
- We work with you to use the new framework to assess and improve your leaders’ capability and to provide activities and resources to support that development.
Clearly, the approach to this depends on the size and complexity of the organisation and the detail is co-created to meet exactly the needs of each client.
Let's Talk
The easiest way to understand how we can help, and whether you feel that you could work with us, is to begin with a conversation.
We don't believe in a "hard sell" and often find that people get value out of the exploratory discussion - whether or not we go on to work together.
Please Contact Us – we would love to hear from you.