The demands placed on your managers depend on a number of different factors. These include:
- External factors such as customer needs or technological developments,
- Internal factors such as the specialist expertise of their team, the organizational structure, the corporate culture and, of course, the varieties of personalities within the company.
This is why you will reap the most benefits from leadership training if it is tailored specifically to your needs and situation.
The following circumstances might prompt you to engage in leadership training:
- Following a restructuring you have reconfigured your management team, and the members of the new team haven’t yet managed to reconcile their attitudes, ambitions, etc. You want to achieve long-term team development which will take collaboration in your company to a new level.
- Your managers are all highly qualified and have a fair degree of leadership competence. However, to achieve the level you aspire to, you need a more comprehensive leadership approach with a greater focus on individuals and on unleashing existing potential.
- Your area managers do successfully drive business forward within their own areas of responsibility, but cross-divisional projects are cumbersome, and processes are inefficient. Turf wars arise between the departments, and there is a prevailing silo mentality.
- Promising ideas and innovations end up stagnating within the company – this diminishes your innovative power as well as your focus on service.
- There is bad feeling and distrust between senior and middle management. Although both sides are well informed, each feels that they have not been understood.
Even though our offering comprises a wide range of services tailored specifically to your situation, and is therefore unique, we base our approach on the following conviction: successful leadership does not depend on specific innate qualities, nor does it arise from a particular theory, for example “the XY school of management….”. Instead, it involves a process of personal development: in this process you will learn to embrace your own values and ideals more strongly (self-leadership), and to lead others on a basis of trust, enabling empowerment (leading others). In addition, you will gain a stronger sense of direction and offer more security (sense of direction), using constructive methods to achieve strong outcomes (results). The following diagram illustrates this concept: