Photo by Elisa Michelet on Unsplash Assessing leadership skills is crucial for personal, professional and organisational development and success. Too often the lack of assessment expertise leads to unsuitable people being appointed to leadership roles, causing problems for the people being led, the organisation and harming the prospects of the unfortunate appointee. Effective leadership assessment is a process […]
Photo by roya ann miller on Unsplash As both the chair and CEO, he’d been the leader of the company he founded for twenty years. At this board meeting, his innovation team, a cross section of the company’s talent, presented the next generation of product and service mix his company would launch in the New Year. Key to […]
With too few exceptions, the effective leadership deficit is rampant in all sectors of the global community, in politics, commerce, community and family. Exacerbated by the fourth industrial revolution – artificial intelligence and robotics; by value chain disruption and the failure of traditional political and business models, there has never been a time when effective […]
Ensuring that the values are really lived, not just appearing on the wall. That everyone is enrolled in the compelling vision that expresses the values. That everyone knows exactly what they are to do to achieve the vision. That you personally are addressing the most difficult challenges facing the business. That you are proactively developing […]
I asked my new CEO client that question. She said “Well we haven’t needed to use it yet.” I asked “OK, are you practicing your plan?” She thought and said “Yes, when people are on leave or absent for some reason.” I asked “So are any of your potential successors practicing in the roles whilst […]
There are valuable corporate lessons to be learned from the FIFA scandal. For me the main lesson is the length of time a peak leader stays in the role, which is ultimately a succession planning issue. Whether a corporation of some sort or a government or even a dynasty, without a timely authentic ‘changing of […]
The founder and managing director was getting older. He’d started the business 20 years ago and now had a tight executive team of four directors including him. They shared ownership of the business – a geophysical technology service provider. The problem was that the founder had decided that they were already successful and was seeking […]
I’ve spoken about succession planning and practice awhile ago. Since then I’ve been struck by the number of stories I’ve heard about the difficulty in finding good people, talent and those ready to step up to leadership. Globally it remains a primary challenge. As I look around my client base, a mix of government and […]
I constantly hear comments about whether one’s succession plan is in place or not. The organisations who claim they have a plan too often do nothing more than allow the nominees to stand in whilst the incumbent is away on leave, study, or deployment. They then wonder why succession plans often deliver sub-standard results and […]
