Leadership Development Planning - why do you need it? If you're wondering what kind of person should be focusing on leadership development planning, let us enlighten you. Ready for it? You do of course! Providing, you have a drive to be a better leader, develop your career and build your business. The Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL) goes some way to explaining why this is so important: 1. More than 50% of those interviewed, believed that leadership development planning was top of the list in terms of importance 2. Two out of every three leadership development plans fail. Not a great success rate by anybody's assessment. Perhaps the issue is to do with a lack of knowledge of how to implement such development plans (even if their importance is clear)? Leadership Development Planning is a very personal experience and it is helpful to consider it as part of any other personal development you are undertaking. Ask yourself this question: would you try to make changes to your business without first having a clear vision of what you are trying to achieve and then underpinning that with a great plan of execution? Hopefully the answer to that question is no.
Our top 3 success factors for making your leadership development plan successful: 1. Ask yourself this question: "where am I trying to go in my leadership aspirations, and how do I want to get there?� Understand the bigger picture and take time to stand back and reflect from time to time. 2. Carefully consider the outcomes of the planning process and prioritise them in terms of their importance to you. This will help to keep you motivated during the planning and ongoing 3. Direct the process and take ownership of the outcomes. All successful development plans must be self-directed or they just won’t motivate you to achieve.
Building a successful leadership development plan for your future is no small undertaking. However, by approaching it in a pragmatic way, all the time taking ownership and responsibility for the outcomes, your chances of success will be multiplied significantly. For a no obligation conversation about how we could help you improve your leadership planning, give us a call.