"...keeping you great" HEADLINES: Senior Team Buried -- the senior team will get crushed if their frontline supervisors and middle managers are not effectively developed. According to a recent McKinsey study, "while frontline employees receive extensive training and development, their managers - who may have had no previous experience leading others - do not. At all levels, executives believe that the little training they do receive fails to prepare them to take on leadership roles successfully." I couldn't agree more. Management Development: 3 Simple Strategies -- my latest "Growth Guy syndicated column outlines three simple approaches for developing your supervisors and managers: pay to read; virtual learning; and peer groups. Please take three minutes to read how several growth firms are applying these simple approaches to developing their management ranks. Peer Group Interactions -- Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic and now professor of management at Harvard, notes that the key to effective leadership development comes down to self-awareness. And gaining such self-awareness requires three things:
The missing link in leadership development is having a safe place where people can share their experiences, challenges, and frustrations and get honest feedback. That's why small, intimate groups of peers where people can talk openly in confidential settings are critical to management development and why Gazelles is pioneering an approach over the phone to fit this need.
4 Step Process - it works! It's inexpensive. And it's not as time-consuming as most management development initiatives. |