Effec­tive lead­er­ship is more about char­ac­ter than form. Great lead­ers bring authen­tic­ity to their roles.

The vast major­ity of lead­er­ship devel­op­ment efforts fall short of address­ing what orga­ni­za­tions need most – sus­tained suc­cess. There are three key rea­sons why the vast major­ity of lead­er­ship devel­op­ment efforts fall short:

• Orga­ni­za­tions imple­ment devel­op­ment efforts with the hope that man­agers and lead­ers will use what they learn, with­out a sys­tem of account­abil­ity or the ben­e­fit of inter­nal support.
• Devel­op­ment efforts often dis­con­nect per­sonal per­for­mance from orga­ni­za­tional per­for­mance. They do not insure a deeper under­stand­ing of the busi­ness and how to man­age more effec­tively within an organization’s core pur­pose and vision for the future.
• They are rarely imple­mented with active and ongo­ing senior leader spon­sor­ship – miss­ing the ben­e­fit of a com­mon per­spec­tive for lead­ing peo­ple, and trans­form­ing the orga­ni­za­tion to one where peo­ple want to work and stay.

At Growth­Source we believe that only a process of devel­op­ment, a series of learn­ing ses­sions sup­ported by appli­ca­tion and rein­force­ment can be expected to achieve last­ing change in lead­er­ship behavior.