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The Too Often Unspoken Role of the Leader

February 4, 2016

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We hear so much about the leader’s role being to create the vision, model the values, engage the people and so on, for the purpose of achieving the enterprise’s vision, deliver stakeholder value and so on.

However, there is a role of the leader that too often goes unspoken and undelivered.

What is that role?

I assert that role is to influence, persuade and support the people to take responsibility and action for their own personal and professional development.

Certainly the enterprise can support and subsidise that development, because they are a beneficiary.

That responsibility lies firstly with the individual, and I believe that too many leaders aren’t doing enough to make that message be heard, let alone stick.

The evidence is abundant among those people who have stayed frozen at a lower level of development and performance, unwilling to change, unwilling to take training, expecting advancement purely because they’ve been there for so long.

I see those people in all sectors of the workplace, in commerce and in government.

I see some of them turn up at training and development, just to tick the box.

I see some training delivered also just to tick the box, without being championed by leaders beyond lip service.

I see many people, leaders as well, who do nothing but their current work, stuck in a time warp that will surely send them to the dinosaurs.

The evidence is abundant amongst those enterprises that have a stuck bureaucratic culture, are overly risk averse, and have toxic inhabitants who are tolerated.

In this world of massive change, ongoing personal and professional development is essential for both the individual and the enterprise.

Those who avoid it are destined for diminishing welfare and oblivion.

Then there are those enterprises who do have forward thinking, supportive yet demanding leaders who do develop their culture to take personal responsibility for their ongoing development.

I see them also in all sectors, but too few.

They are the ones who will not only survive, but also thrive.

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