Organizational performance hinges on the leadership of the organization. Developing your “bench” is a critical component of achieving the results the organization desires and for ensuring the sustainability of the organization.
Total Performance Systems provides a cradle-to-cradle (always developing and renewing) system of leadership development.
Leadership development has 5 components:
- Identification and selection of future leaders
- Education/Training
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Job assignments
- Personal mastery
1. Identification and selection
- Performance evaluations that identify potential leaders
- Input from senior leaders about people in the groups who are demonstrating high potential as leaders
- Assessment – self-report and 360 degree
2. Education and training
- Can be brought in-house to groups
- Identify external classes that meet developmental needs
- Skill development
3. Mentoring and Coaching
- Mentoring
- Advising/developmental relationship, with one or more senior managers
- Provides a strategic perspective on leadership decisions
- Can be an advancement catalyst
- Lessons learned/avoid mistakes are conveyed
- Coaching
- Practical, goal-focused form of one-on-one or group learning
- Produces self-knowledge
- Define and support behavioral change
- Establish career development plan
4. Job Assignments
- Provide stretch assignments in terms of role, function, or geography
- Skill development
- Broader understanding of issues – start viewing issues from a tactical and strategic perspective
5. Personal Mastery
- Self-report assessment and 360-degree feedback – help leaders understand themselves and their impact on others.
- Multi-source ratings of performance
- Organized and presented to leaders and managers
- Facilitate self-knowledge
- Define and support behavioral change
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