This is the third post in our series about entrepreneurial leadership. In my last post, you discovered the 11 Characteristics of Entrepreneurial Leaders. In this post, you’ll discover how to develop them and specifically, the role that mentoring can play. Learning Through Doing The reality is that anyone can develop the skills and behaviours needed
Welcome to the second blog post in this series about entrepreneurial leadership. In my last post, Entrepreneurial Leadership: Why is it important? you read what it was and why we need it. A key message was that entrepreneurial leaders need to embrace high levels of change. And they need to thrive on the unique challenges
Earlier this year I received an invitation from the President of the Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico. The theme of the 11th annual Mentoring Conference was to be Mentoring, Coaching and Leadership for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. They wanted me to deliver a keynote speech. The title was How to Develop Innovative, Entrepreneurial
“How’s your organisation doing with regard to gender equality? Do you have many women at senior levels?” This line will be familiar to professionals in HR. It’s a focus for many who have recognised that gender inequality in the workplace costs companies. It impacts financial performance, idea innovation, market share, team collaboration and much more.
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
The fast-paced environment in which they thrive leaves many fast-growing companies facing three key leadership challenges. I call them the Three Cs – Capacity, Capability and Culture. 1. Capacity If an organisation is to grow, it needs the right people and the right leadership. A shortage of leaders at every level is the biggest challenge
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
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