How do you TARGET individual leadership development to specific skills and competencies?
How do you give leaders the direct, candid feedback they need, in a manner they will accept?
Are leaders ‘born, not made’ or is it really possible to develop leadership capabilities?
Effective leadership ability springs from a subtle and complex set of interrelated business, personal, intellectual and emotional capabilities. Helping individual become better leaders is a daunting task – and a fair case can be made that leadership development efforts are not a good investment. Because the best leaders seem to evolve and continuously improve on their own, while those with clear development issues often stagnate and never really improve.
Feedback provided by the Leadership StyleMapTM assessment (see sample graph below) can help individual leaders see themselves in a more objective manner and focus their development efforts toward specific competencies and skills.