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Encouraging Emerging Leaders to Charge into Leadership
Good decisions when replacing managers are critical because their actions flow through to the performance and morale of their team. Having Emerging Leaders ready to step into management roles is essential for every organisation, big or small.
Ready-made successors
A robust Emerging Leaders process fosters ready-made leaders within the organisation. They already know the organisation and sector and they have lived the workplace culture. Presumably they represent your ideal culture. If not, take them of the list of candidates. This means they can focus on the biggest challenges for new managers– developing leadership skills and strategies to deal with the people they lead. If you have created a robust Emerging Leaders process, they will have been developing these skills before they need them, so they are ready when the opportunity comes.
Mistake or choice?
Recruiting leaders from outside the organisation isn’t a bad thing. They can bring fresh perspectives, promote positive change and enhance innovation. It just shouldn’t be your only option because of a lack of emerging leaders within your organisation.If you need to replace a manager and you have no option but to look externally, that’s a mistake. Learn from it. If it happens again, that’s a choice and it suggests you didn’t learn.
The Good, The Bad or The What-The!: The Tosser from Tesla was at it again, abusing a worker with a disability, who may or may not have been sacked. Musk was eventually forced to concede he may have mis-read the situation. There’s hope for you yet, Elon!
The Resource: Simon spotted a poem called Talking to The Wild by Becky Hemsley. It’s a reminder to be true to yourself as a leader instead of trying to fit the image that others may have of you.
Words of Authenticity: A great observation by Kirralea. It can be the moments when we feel we may be being less of a manager that we actually become more of a manager.
Our guests today are from R&J Batteries, Australia’s fastest growing battery company. Each played a pivotal role in implementing an Emerging Leaders program. Two participants took on management positions within less than 12 months & most others showed significant growth.
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