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Leadership development enhances an employees’ leadership capabilities within an organisation. It is the process of creating an environment that places priority on developing the skills that grows the leader which consequently grows the organisation. Leadership roles are those who execute a company’s vision, through winning mindshare, managing teams and growing others’ capabilities.
Leadership development programmes can come in different formats. There are mentoring programmes, class-room leadership and management development training programmes, and the most effective coaching leadership development programmes.
75% of employees who voluntarily leave their jobs don’t quit their jobs, they quit their bosses. Ineffective leaders can have detrimental consequences for an organisation. Gallup (2014) estimates that poor leadership costs organisations up to $550 billion a year. By investing in leadership development, you can retain your people and reduce costly recruitment expenses.
Every employee impacts an organisation, but leadership has the most significant impact on a company’s culture. Through leadership and management development, you can empower your leaders to achieve a company’s mission and execute in accordance with a company’s values. This way leaders can demonstrate the beliefs and values of a company and reinforce behaviours that reflect those values.
71% of employees feel that their managers do not spend enough time discussing their goals with them on a regular basis (Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño, 2016). As a result, employees don’t really know which direction to go in, creating a loss of productivity and a drop in performance. By investing in leadership development you will see a financial return. When priorities are in line with business goals, business units operate more efficiently because of much more productive and engaged employees. As a result there is less financial wastage.
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What are the top leadership skills?
The leaders of today are having to cope with a new reality and simply cannot have all right answers. Companies are therefore moving away from traditional command-and-control practices towards a more collaborative and supportive management style where guidance, over instructions, is offered. As a result, soft skills such as empathy, communication, adaptability and creativity are increasingly being cited as the most important skills, even more so than hard skills (Google, 2015)
What are some examples of different types of leadership styles?
Authoritative – An authoritative leader sets clear expectations of their vision and engages their workforce along the way to help achieve a vision. An authoritative leader offers direction and guidance to maintain enthusiasm during the process, to achieve a sense of accomplishment throughout an endeavour The success of authoritative leadership largely depends on the emotional intelligence and soft skills of the leader.
Democratic – Democratic leaders inspire creativity and ask their team members their opinions, before making a final decision. Democratic leaders get employees to do what they want to be done but in a way that the employees want to do it.
Coaching – A coaching leadership style inspires creativity and collaboration and does not follow command and control practices. Coaching leaders want to continuously develop their team members. They believe everyone has power within themselves and may give guidance on how to tap into their potential.
What is a leadership development framework?
A leadership development framework outlines the behaviours of effective leadership. It represents the standard for leadership behaviours of the organisations, providing a toolkit of principles that managers and teams can use, to carry out their roles and responsibilities. CoachHub’s leadership development framework, which we encourage our clients to follow follows the principle of “grow as a person, inspire as a leader.”
Rosie is a behavioural scientist at CoachHub, where she applies insights from positive psychology, neuroscience and behavioural science directly into digital coaching programmes and an approach that drives individual and organisational transformation. She works as part of the in-house research and development team, the Coaching Lab, and contributes to the advancement of the science of coaching and behaviour change; in addition to working both internally with in-house researchers and with world-class external academic teams to design and execute groundbreaking studies.
Rosie Evans Behavioural Scientist at CoachHub
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