Forward Thinking for Management and Leadership event on the 4th July at Millbank Tower, London

1. 21st Century leadership
Why we need to think differently about
leadership development
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2. Agenda
• Why it is time to rethink our ideas on
supporting leaders
• Evidence for change - how technology
can help
• The Leader’s perspective

3. UK plc success
Leadership Skills
Essential for
economic
growth

4. Skills gap
of organisations report a deficit in
management and leadership skills
reporting deficit at senior management
level
report a deficit at middle/supervisor level
Source: CIPD - Learning and Talent Survey 2012, IOD - Shackled by the skills crunch 2011

5. Why the gap?

6. What are we
currently doing to
address it?

7. Workshop Coaching Reading Action
learning
But is it
96% 93% 90%
87%
enough?
Programme of events
Source: Towards Maturity - Reinventing Leadership Development 2011

8. Volatile
Uncertain
Complex
Ambiguous

9. Leadership skills of future
• Future focussed:
• Maker instinct
• Clarity
• Rapid prototyping
• Smart mob organising
• Commons creating

10. Workshop Coaching Reading Action
96% 93% 90% learning
87%

11. Top Performers
Report more Benefits
• Reduce time to competency
• Engage more learners
• Increased sharing
• Save more money
Source: Towards Maturity - Boosting Business Agility 2011-12 Benchmark

12. Top Performers
Report fewer barriers and more management engagement
70%
60%
50%
40%
Sporadic users (n=143)
30%
Average (n=764)
20% Top performers(n=122)
10%
0%
Barrier - L&D Barrier- User Barrier - Line Managers
reluctance reluctance manager agree we are
reluctance adding value

13. E-enabling leadership development
Central Government
Finance
IT & telecoms
Manufacturing
Professional services
Local government 42%
Not for profit
Health
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Source: Towards Maturity - Boosting Business Agility 2011-12 Benchmark

14. What is driving adoption?
Lead change
Improve Performance
Productivity
Efficiency
Agility
Source: Towards Maturity - Reinventing Leadership Development 2011

15. How is technology being used?

16. E-enabling more learning methods
Workshops
Coaching
Reading
Only online
360 degree… Blend with online
F2F /paper only
Action planning
Checklists & job aids
Source: Towards Maturity - Reinventing Leadership Development 2011

17. Lessons from the top performers

18. Capturing and sharing
good practice
• Video - the authentic voice
Source: Towards Maturity case study tinyurl.com/TMBBCleadership2012

19. Encouraging collaboration
• Providing opportunities to
connect
Source: Towards Maturity case study tinyurl.com/TMc-W2012

20. Performing under pressure
• Immersive learning ability
• Practice safely
Source: Towards Maturity case study tinyurl.com/TMNCSL2012

21. Supporting performance
• Easy access to help at the
point of need
Source: Towards Maturity case study tinyurl.com/TMEversheds2012

22. Leader Preferences
• Media
• Choice
• Don’t assume, ask!
Source: Towards Maturity - Reinventing Leadership Development 2011

23. Organisations must innovate
to survive
but to engender innovation –
we [L&D] have to innovate
Nigel Paine

24. Challenge your thinking

25. Next steps
• Benchmark against the best -
http://bit.ly/TMB012
• Discover
– NEW In-Focus Report
• www.towardsmaturity.org/In-Focus2012Leadership
– Reinventing Leadership
Development
www.towardsmaturity.org/leadership
• Take action!
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26. 21st Century leadership
Why we need to think differently about
leadership development
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