Future Leadership in Your Organization

Saturday, October 28 2023

Effective leadership is the single biggest contributor to an organization’s success, so be sure to prepare now to ensure a smooth and effective transition for the future leadership in your organization.

Start with Corporate Strategy

Ensure you have a current strategy to which emerging leaders can champion. A clear organizational vision allows a leader to develop departmental, team, and individual visions and goals. Alignment generates the greatest results.

When the organizational strategy is widely understood, new leaders can be identified who have the ability and desire to lead in a way that supports the corporate vision and strategy.

Identify Emerging Leaders

Actively and continuously identify those who can move into leadership roles in the future. Select multiple potential leaders for each existing leadership role and focus on developing their skills. Don’t fall into the trap of selecting leaders who are good “doers” but lack the ability to lead people to achieve results.

Choose those who exhibit leadership skills such as goal setting, listening, creating an environment of trust, and demonstrating empathy. Tools such as The Achievement Centre’s Results-Centred 360 and RADAR 180 can help to identify emerging leaders who possess the traits and skills necessary to lead your organization to greater success.

Provide Training and Coaching

An emerging leader has the potential to become an effective leader, however, simply giving them the title will not generate the greatest results. Provide training to help individuals understand the attributes they bring to the leadership role then allow them to focus on using and refining those skills to become their most effective self. Provide coaching from existing leaders to facilitate the transfer of important skills and knowledge.

Future Leadership in Your Organization

Invest in your people. There is a cost to developing leaders. There is also a cost to not developing them, so weigh which is worse for your organization.

Many leadership roles will become open as current leaders leave the workforce, so prepare for that future by investing in emerging leaders. As you create a new team of next generation leaders you will be better positioned to realize greater results.

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