4 Lessons Learned from Putting Leadership Development at the Heart of a Major Operations-Improvement Effort

1.  Leadership and Management Development Training must be tied to the business strategy of the organization.

2.  Leadership Training must build on the behavioral strengths needed for the overall transformation while focusing on the existing interpersonal strengths and managerial optimism of your management team to help them broadly engage the employees in the organization.

3.  Provide the training participants access to senior level executives so they can tell them the hard truths or the “why’s” for the change.

4.  Create a network or forum for communicating ideas, best practices, and even pitfalls to avoid among managers.  Managers need to know that they are not alone in this transformation.

Putting leadership development at the heart of a major operations-improvement effort paid big dividends for a global industrial company.(Free Report Below) Far too often, leaders ask everyone else to change but fail to do so themselves. In reality,  this philosophy doesn’t work until they first change themselves.