What characterizes successful leaders today?
"The result is a paradoxical system where the drivers of leadership emergence are not just different, but often the opposite of the drivers of leadership effectiveness. What gets you there won’t make you effective; what makes you effective won’t get you there".
Tomas Camorro-Premuzic Professor of Business Psychology at University College London and Columbia University, New York
Hogan High Potential Solution
The Hogan High Potential Talent Solution helps you measure the three most important dimensions of leadership potential with sub-factors. The report highlights individual strengths and ranks development areas to address. The purpose is to prioritize areas where the development opportunities are greatest, so that you can support them in developing into good leaders for your organisation.
What is included in leadership development?
Leadership development is a broad term, but can mainly be divided into three categories.
General management knowledgedeals with management theories and methods, which as a manager are expected to be familiar with, for example, motivation, strategy and communication.Organization-specific management knowledge deals with specific ways of doing things in a company, for example learning "how to conduct staff interviews at us" and "what values we have and how do I take them into account in my exercise of leadership". Personal development
is for self-insight and support in developing as a leader. The leader learns how others experience his/her leadership style and is helped into a process where he/she emphasizes his/her strengths and works to improve in his/her areas of development.
We help you tailor leadership development to your organisation's needs and can include various elements from all three categories if desired.
Participate in external programs or tailor customthe organization's needs?
There are different opinions about what is best, but the best answer is probably that "it depends". Read more here about what to include in the assessment before you decide what will be most appropriate for your managers' development needs, as well as how to tailor management development to the organisation's needs.
The importance of good follow-up during and after the leadership development initiative
Noe som er viktig både for interne og eksterne programmer er at lederens leder, samt HR, følger opp lederen under og etter programmet er over. Forskning viser at det er av stor viktighet at organisasjonen bygger opp et støtte og oppfølgingssystem for å sikre at læringen blir omgjort til handling. Coaching og målbare handlingsplaner er prosesser som har vist seg å være suksessfulle i denne sammenheng. Likeså at læringen og utviklingsplan blir fulgt opp i medarbeidersamtaler og at
development targets are set as a target on the manager's KPI.
Managers who have been selected to participate in a management development program often get the feeling that "I am considered a talent in this organization, they want to bet on me". It is therefore important that the manager's manager and HR support the manager with regard to further career paths, wishes, motivation and development needs. If not, you risk a demotivated manager, someone who is unable or prioritizes to put into use what he/she has learned or that the candidate looks around for exciting opportunities in other organisations.
Read more here about Talent Management.
Which psychometric tools do we recommend for management development?
We recommend using a preference instrument or one or more personality tests. In management development for new managers, a preference instrument can often be suitable. In development programs for more senior managers, and between managers, we recommend personality tests that go more in-depth.
We recommend individual coaching
Individual coaching is in itself a good development method, but we especially see that it has a good effect in connection with leadership development programs where we take the leader out of the group and work one-on-one with the leader's unique needs.
How can we help you?
When we support you in planning and carrying out leadership development in your organisation, it is important that we both look at general leadership qualities that are important in today's society and working life, but also which qualities are particularly important in your organisation. We help you tailor leadership development to your organization's needs, including which tests and instruments may be most useful at different leadership levels.
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