In my last blog post I talked about the need to align your leadership development strategy with your business strategy.  And that means identifying the leadership roles that will be critical to success.  That’s what this blog post is about. While every role in your company is important, not every role is critical or strategic. Critical

Did you know that only a quarter of organisations say their leadership development programmes are effective at improving performance? Research by McKinsey shows that one of the biggest mistakes companies make is they don’t align their leadership development strategy with their business strategy. So, let’s fix that.  This blog post looks at how you can

Leadership development is something that every organisation knows it should do. But why? What will it help you achieve? What problems will it help you avoid or address? What would be the benefits of investing the time and money in a leadership development initiative? If you don’t have the answers, it will be hard to

Successful leadership development is a goal many of us strive for. When you’re responsible for developing leaders in a fast-growing company, you have many questions to answer. How can you develop the confident and skilful leaders your company needs for its continued growth and success? How can you do it in a way that is dynamic

I’ll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn’t pay enough attention to developing their leaders. Wayne Calloway, former Chairman, PepsiCo Inc. Here’s the bottom line: companies which don’t invest in developing their leaders make less than half the revenue per employee compared to