Creating a Culture of Leadership Development

Components & Strategies

Welcome

ORGANIZATIONS MUST PROVIDE:

• Opportunities for employees to acquire new skills

• Opportunities for career advancement

• Training

• Empowerment

• Rewards & Recognition

• Autonomy and authority for task completion

LEADERS MUST DO:

• Provide support, coaching, and mentoring

• Recognize employee strengths and match them appropriately to tasks and roles

• Provide growth and development opportunities

• Appropriately stretch employee skills and abilities

• Provide regular constructive feedback

Successful career development depends on 3 factors

THE P.I.E. MODEL

Your day to day work and the quality of the results you deliver

PERFORMANCE

How you present yourself and how other people perceive you

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Who knows about what you do and the quality of your work

EXPOSURE

60%

30%

10%

THE PIE MODEL & Success

A B C

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Exposure

Performance

What do different generations think about P.I.E.?

Traditionalists?

Millennials?

Generation X?

Baby Boomers?

What do you have to do to create a culture of leadership development?

HIRING:

• 70% impressions and 30% qualifications

• Remember the 7/11 Rule of first impressions

• Provide a forum for asking questions

• Have candidates meet other team members

• Expand your organization’s business case and definition of diversity and practice inclusion to make a strategy versus a program

• Don’t be afraid to hire internal candidates

ONBOARDING:

• Make it personal, connect to them

• Use different mediums

• Create a relaxed atmosphere

• Create a shared vision for all staff

• Define your rallying cry and thematic goals

• Use stories to introduce pool values

• Engage existing staff to share their expertise, knowledge, and suggestions for new staff

TEAM BUILDING:

• Create cohesive teams at all levels

• Help leaders define their “one team”

• Foster “CO- OPERTITION”

• Let teams create themselves

• Solicit volunteers for projects (PIE)

• Allow natural leaders to emerge versus defining project leaders (where possible)

• Promote cross functional/generational work

MENTORING:

• Create formal and informal programs

that are supported with programming

and resources

• Encourage reverse mentoring to

promote generational collaboration and interaction

• Provide sounding boards for employees to share their feedback and get advice

RECOGNITION:

• Every employee feels known

• Employees know why their work matters

• They know how to measure their impact

• Create ways to “catch people doing good”

• Celebrate achievements regularly

• Get staff involved in recognition process

• Make it personal (give them what they want)

Overview

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What are the applications for your pool?

Mentoring?

Hiring?

Team Building?

Recognition?

Onboarding?

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