Taking Leadership Development out of the Classroom to Accelerate Results
How can leaders overcome the fact that up to two thirds of the improvement potential in their organization is locked-up in the heads and hearts of un-inspired and under-empowered employees?This is the challenge often presented to aspiring new leaders in formal Leadership Development Programs.
Read below and in the case studies listed about an action learning approach to building leadership capability that unlocks and focuses employee know-how and energy for improving performance.
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While many leadership development programs focus on employee engagement as a critical skill for success, very little attention, if any, is given to the fundamentals of actually making it happen. Theories and exercises in visioning, team building, change management and the like, are useful foundations but provide little practical guidance for the new leader confronted with their first-time assignment to rally people to solve a problem.
Throughout a 15-year history of helping organizations improve faster, Leap Technologies has dealt with the practical necessity of asking managers and employees to step-up the challenge of leading an improvement team without the luxury of attending formal training programs in leadership skills.
We have supported these newly-minted improvement leaders with our core Fast-Change Toolkit, the Rapid Action Team Process. This simple-to-use, learn-as you-apply process (with origins in the GE Workout Program and testing since then with thousands of applications) is a roadmap that any leader can follow.
Equipped with Rapid Action Tools, leaders can quickly and efficiently rally a team of employees to execute an improvement assignment in 60 days or fewer. There's no guess work or trial and error in the process. The goal is to focus the leader's full attention on the task and their team.
A number of our clients have used Rapid Action Tools and the experience of leading a Rapid Action Team to accelerate their leadership development programs and requirements for leadership promotion. These organizations have reaped the additional benefit of simultaneously solving real-time problems and increasing the level of productive employee engagement.
Select from the menu on the left to review examples of Rapid Action Tools for Leadership Development. For more information on the role of leadership in driving employee engagement, download our Whitepaper on Closing the Engagement Gap.