Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about the right workforce, why leadership development is like brushing your teeth, being a model of leadership development, and why some leaders fail.
From Eric S. Pelletier: The right workforce, today and tomorrow
“Strategic workforce planning delivers two critical advantages: It helps leaders understand if they have or can obtain the workforce to execute their business strategy. It also assists HR leaders in reorganizing, shaping, and deploying the workforce to deliver on their companies’ business objectives.”
From Julie Winkle Giulioni: Developing employees is like brushing your teeth
“Helping others develop, learn and grow. It may be among the most fundamental responsibilities human beings have to one another. And it’s played out for millennia, as the lessons and cultural norms of past civilizations were passed on generation to generation much like parents today guide their children toward adulthood.”
From Mary Jo Asmus: Being a model of leadership develpment
“Those of us who work in the arena of leadership development see it all the time: the leader at the top of the organization encourages (or mandates) others throughout the organization to be coached, workshop(ed) or trained, but we don’t see the top leader doing the same for themselves. If you’re one of those top leaders who encourages others to develop, but you don’t model your own self-development, how invested do you think others will be in taking what they’re learning to heart? might spark a think piece — set the example”
From Martin Kilduff, Craig Crossland, Wenpin Tsai and Matthew T. Bowers: Why José Mourinho’s protégés failed when they became managers
“When Jack Welch was chairman and CEO of General Electric, he was widely considered to be the best manager in the world and his protégés were in demand as CEOs of their own companies. But most of these protégés failed in their new roles despite the Jack Welch connection. Similarly, the assistant coaches under José Mourinho, when he was manager of Chelsea football club, themselves succeeded in becoming managers of other clubs, but most of them have been fired for underperformance in their new roles. These are two anecdotal instances of protégés or acolytes of high-performing managers gaining promotions but then experiencing unfavorable career outcomes later on. How general is this phenomenon?”
