Situational Leadership Training Best Practice Blog

7 Warning Signs that Politics should be Part of Your Executive and Leadership Development Program

2011-08-30T12:11:00.000-07:00

When we research Executive and Leadership Development Programs, we consistently find one area lacking – Politics.

Ask any executive - each business day, a corporate version of "survival of the fittest" is played out. Power plays, turf battles, deception, and sabotage block individuals' career progress and threaten companies' resources and results.

As a leader, if you are observing any of the following warning signs at your organization, you are witnessing typical “closed shop” behavior telling you that Politics Should be Part of Your Executive and Leadership Development Programs.

Blind Spot: Executives or upper management has a blind spot or hands-off approach to Overly Political leaders.
Consolidation of Power: The Overly Political leader consolidates power by hurting the careers of direct reports, peers, or consultants who challenge him.
Limited Access: She guards access to people in her organization and tells direct reports to not communicate or share information with specific other parts of the company.
Circle of Trust: When people outside of the team ask for information from direct reports, they’re uncomfortable and guarded. Direct reports can get in trouble for being seen talking to someone the Overly Political leader doesn’t like or fears.
Micromanagement: Direct reports often say, “I need to check with my manager.”
“Yes Men:” Team meetings lack candor or real debate, and people learn not to challenge the leader.
Favoritism: Clear, personal favorites exist on the team.

In our opinion, the establishment of the type of environment listed above works against building a sustainable business required to attract, retain, and develop top talent. To succeed, organizations need to build “Savvy Leaders” through well designed executive development and leadership training programs.

Driving Inside Sales Growth Using Proven Leadership Practices

2011-03-29T11:29:00.001-07:00

In a recent leadership excellence quarterly poll, a large % of contact center leaders stated that "ensuring the best contact center experience possible" was keeping them up at night.

A small % increase in contact center performance can boost profits by as much as upwards of 50%. Research has shown that content customers lead to greater inside sales growth.

Read more about some of the best situational leadership® development programs, hiring practices and make the link between industry leading inside sales revenue growth and service...

Does the leadership acumen at your organization stack up?

2011-03-28T05:08:00.000-07:00

Thinking about the executives and their leadership performance within your organization for a second:

• What % of executives truly understand the concept of best situational leadership® practices and its impact on performance?

• Is the concept of adapting one's leadership style to better align with specific individuals or teams alien to these leaders?

Search for the Right Situational Leadership® Training Resource. Right Now.

2010-12-29T06:00:00.000-08:00

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Leadership Research Study Results

2010-09-29T08:51:00.000-07:00

Over the course of the past 12 months, we conducted an online research study where visitors to our website were anonymously surveyed across an area of topics related driving performance through investments in human capital. In particular, one such survey asked respondents the following question:

What leadership training & development issue is keeping you up at night?

From a list of predefined responses, here are the results for your viewing pleasure.

Improving strategic decisions, execution, and results--24%
Increasing leadership bench strength--35%
Improving organizational performance--29%
Motivating and engaging the workforce---12%
Other--0%

How would you answer the above question regarding situational leadership training, leadership best practices, leadership development etc.etc.?

Situational Leadership Training Best Practice Resources

2010-05-03T06:00:00.000-07:00

From time to time, we like to provide visitors and subscribers to this blog with a refresher on where they can find helpful resources devoted to best practices in the area of Situational Leaderhip Training & Performance, and related areas.

We hope you find these resources insightful and relevant:

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What's leadership's role in creating a high performance culture?

2010-03-31T12:55:00.000-07:00

Below is an abstract of a leadership and its impact on creating a high performance culture focused white paper.

It is the Leader’s challenge to create the circumstances that stimulate improved performance and execution from the people within their organization. The key question for business leaders is not “why” high performance but rather “how”?

Whether it is maintaining the prestige of a great artistic institution, creating elite military capability, or succeeding in business, it comes down to manager's situational leadership skills and how these translate stimulating performance.

Research has indicated that 46% of organizations cite creating a high performance culture as one of their top 3 talent management priorities and yet 61% of line managers do not feel that the talent and performance management processes they have today are driving greater performance from the business.

So the question is not whether you should do it but rather HOW?

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Can Your Leaders Weather the Storm and Come Out Stronger?

2009-11-06T11:03:00.000-08:00

Now is when Leadership really matters.

In difficult times, leaders should have the skills and knowledge to not only weather the storm, but to help you and your company come out of the storm two times faster and two times stronger than your competition.

From our perspective, this means effectively and efficiently moving key strategies forward that significantly increase revenue and decrease costs.

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to design, deliver, implement, and measure leadership programs that:

Do not hinder cash flow and pay for themselves
Provide measurable business returns
Deliver on your company's top priorities

Explore the situational leadership® training options available to your team.

July 2007: 5 Key Succession Planning Trends

2009-04-01T06:00:00.001-07:00

Did you know that "talent mobility" is increasing as fast, if not faster than the performance management expectations of most companies?

While the majority of companies with more than 500 employees have already taken some steps to begin a succession planning process for senior management positions, most agree that they do not have the right "talent ready at the right time".

One of the key goals of any succession planning effort should be that there is no "hiccup" in seamlessly executing the business plan, at least from a talent and employee retention perspective.

To ensure success, we recommend implementing 5 key lessons learned from the field.

Read more about the 5 keys lessons..