Leadership

"Is Leadership Development a Part of Your Strategy?"
Powerful demographic forces are reshaping the workforce and organizations must establish leadership development as a core competency or risk losing ground to better prepared competitors.  With 76 million baby boomers expected to retire during the next decade, organizations will be challenged to find, train and retain the leadership talent necessary to run their businesses.  Petty and Petro offer some pragmatic suggestions for getting started on solving this important problem.

The Six Dimensions of Delivering Great Feedback
SMI Research indicates Feedback as the #1 self-reported weakness of leaders at all levels.  Rich Petro offers pragmatic advice in this Perspectives on Leadership executive summary on how to turn this common weakness into a powerful leadership tool to mold your team, your culture and to drive high performance.

The New Leader Development Dilemma
Why do we promote our best and brightest into leadership roles, and then leave them to sink or swim in this most difficult of tasks?  This paper suggests some practical approaches to avoiding this common and costly mistake.

The Leader's Charter™
This paper suggests a powerful construct for the true role and mission of a leader.  Appropriate for aspiring or new leaders as well as experienced professionals, The Leader's Charter provides context where most job descriptions fail.

Research Summary: Seven Steps to More Effective Leadership Development Practices
Based on exclusive primary research conducted by SMI's Petty and Petro, the authors identify a number of major organizational misfires in current organizational leadership development practices, and they offer seven steps to improve effectiveness.  This document is an executive summary only, and interested readers are encouraged to contact the authors directly at knowledge@management-innovations.com.