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How to Build Your Leadership Pipeline

Most 'failed' leadership pipelines aren't a talent problem — they're a process problem.

About the course

This 2-day workshop for managers and HR personnel maps the 6 leadership passages from managing self through to values management, and names the common pipeline failures: wrong people, poor job definition, and lack of coaching. The result: HR teams with a structured plan for identifying and developing the right people at the right stage.

What it covers

Understanding what a Leadership Pipeline is

Where does it start?
Where does it end?
Why is it important?
How to earmark the right individuals

Understanding the 6 Leadership passages

Managing Self
Managing Others
Managing Managers
Functional Management
Business Management
Holistic Group Management
Reaching the Top, Values Management

Using Performance Standards and Measures in each of the above passages

Identifying the performance model
Understanding the necessary skill in each passage
Creating the development plan
Ensuring legislative compliance
Putting Measurables in Place for each passage
Obtaining Buy-in
Monitoring and Feedback

Identifying Possible Pipeline Failures

The wrong people
Taking too long to adjust when necessary
Failure to seek feedback
Poor job definition
Institutional failure
Lack of coaching and/or mentoring

Dealing with development discussions

How to use the right language
What remedial steps to take
Recognising when to Fast Track
Recognise when to let go

Course outline (PDF)

Run it for your team

We can adapt How to Build Your Leadership Pipeline to your industry and your people’s real situations, and run it at your premises, at our venue or as a virtual workshop. We agree the outline with you before you order, and the rate per delegate drops as the group grows.