It Takes Good Leadership to Develop Good Leaders
In fact, lower-performing organizations responded far less enthusiastically than higher performers on every factor contributing to leadership development by 20 to 50 percentage points. Why the lack of enthusiasm? There could be a Catch-22 aspect to this finding. That is, the top leader may not give support for leadership development because leaders aren't developed properly. Until you develop leaders, you don't get the support, but you can't get the support until you develop leaders who give support. Though the full reasoning may be hard to pin down, this lack of emphasis on leadership buy-in leaves lower-performing companies with lots of room for improvement. How does your organization compare?
i4cp's Leadership Competency Study explores these issues and much more, including training practices, performance measurements, and characteristics of successful leaders. Look for more insightful findings from us on leadership competencies in the weeks and months ahead.
Preliminary results from the study are now available for download as both a PDF document and as Interactive Data. Interactive Data allows customization of the results by a variety of demographics, including market performance index (MPI) score, industry, job level, organization size and more, making it easy to benchmark results and identify potential opportunities for improvement.
We also recommend you read last week's TrendWatcher, The Leadership Competencies That Matter Most in Today's Trying Economic Times, which provides broader details of the survey findings.
The Top 10 Factors That Help Organizations Develop Talent
The chart below represents a small fraction of the findings from the study, which includes training practices, performance measurements, characteristics of successful leaders and more.
As vice president of marketing at i4cp, Erik is currently responsible for all marketing efforts for the company and works alongside several departments to execute organizational initiatives. He also oversees web development projects. Located in Seattle, WA, he brings over 15 years of Internet marketing experience, most of which are in the research industry.
Prior to i4cp, Erik worked as Internet Marketing Director at market research panel company GMI, where he was responsible for global online marketing and panel growth in several countries. He also managed the graphic design team and worked extensively with other departments on process improvements and plan development. GMI experienced exceptional revenue growth - several hundred percent - during his tenure. Prior to GMI, Erik founded FilmJabber.com, a movie review and information website that continues to grow in popularity and traffic.
Erik received a B.A. in Business Administration with a concentration in Management Information Systems from Western Washington University.