Leadership By Levels is a unique development program which will ensure that your managerial leaders hit the ground running as soon as they are promoted.
Our program goes beyond conventional development, focussing on the differences in work complexity at each organizational level and enabling participants to develop higher levels required of cognitive capability and socio-emotional maturity.
This program will give organizations the framework for a sustainable leadership talent strategy.
2. THERE’S A LEADERSHIP DILEMMA….
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3. ”THE WORLD LOOKS SO DIFFERENT FROM UP
HERE”
“If I had known beforehand just how more complex my new role
would be I would have asked for help to prepare. I just carried on
working the way I had done before but it was a disaster. My
manager couldn’t cope with the fact that I didn’t understand
what he wanted me to do and my team were making demands
that I couldn’t meet. It was so stressful and I felt a failure.”
(Departmental Manager, previously a Team Leader, in pharmaceuticals)
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4. 55% of newly-promoted managerial leaders
underperform in their new role
due to lack of understanding of its requirements
and inability to cope with
the increased cognitive complexity
and socio-emotional challenges
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5. The majority of organizations fail to adopt
a strategic and systemic approach
to developing leadership capability
at each organizational level,
resorting instead to reactive
and piecemeal interventions
(often AFTER people have been promoted)
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6. HOW CAN WE RESOLVE THIS DILEMMA?
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7. FROM HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL
DEVELOPMENT
“Organizations have grown skilled at developing individual
leadership competencies, but have mostly ignored the challenge
of transforming their leader’s mind-set from one level to the
next. Today’s horizontal development within a mind-set must
give way to the vertical development of bigger minds.”
John McGuire and Gary Rhodes
Transforming Your Leadership Culture, Center For Creative Leadership
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8. A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
CONVENTIONAL APPROACH OUR UNIQUE APPROACH
Leadership is a general Leadership roles increase
concept in complexity and
challenge through each
organizational level
People are usually Neither of these factors
promoted due to their guarantees success at the
expertise or success in their next leadership level
current role
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9. TO SUCCEED AT A HIGHER
LEVEL, YOU CANNOT THINK AND
BEHAVE IN THE SAME WAY AS YOU
DID IN YOUR PREVIOUS ROLE
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10. MATCHING PEOPLE TO LEADERSHIP ROLE
LEADERSHIP ROLE REQUIREMENTS PERSONAL CAPABILITY PROFILE
KNOWLEDGE
WHAT ARE VALUES
WHAT IS THE AND SKILLS
THE SOCIO-
ESSENCE OF
EMOTIONAL
LEADERSHIP
CHALLENGES
WORK AT
AND HOW
EACH LEVEL? COGNITIVE
MUST I
ADAPT? CAPABILITY
WHAT IS THE
COGNITIVE
CHALLENGE? SOCIO-
HOW DO I NEED
TO THINK
TEMPERAMENT EMOTIONAL
DIFFERENTLY? MATURITY
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11. STEP DIFFERENCES IN LEADERSHIP ROLE COMPLEXITY
AND COGNITIVE CHALLENGE BY ORGANIZATIONAL
LEVEL
TRANS-
FORMATIONAL
INTEGRATED LEADERSHIP –
LEADERSHIP – leads business
LEADING synergizes unit (or
LEADERS – leads multiple medium-sized
TEAM several teams in functions and organization), cr
LEADERSHIP – one creates eates new
coordinates and department, des operational strategic models
improves igns and framework. and leads
outputs within improves transformational
existing system. processes. change.
LINEAR CAUSE-AND- SYSTEMIC
META-SYSTEMIC
THINKING EFFECT THINKING
THINKING
THINKING
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12. WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THESE
PROGRAMS?
PARTICIPANTS PROGRAM LEVEL
Specialists or frontline staff about to Team Leadership
take up their first managerial role
Existing Team Leaders about to step up
to Unit or Departmental Head roles Leading Leaders
Existing Departmental Heads moving to roles
which manage multiple operational units
Integrated Leadership
Existing Functional or Operations Managers
who are ready to take on strategic roles
which may involve transformational
organizational change and creation of new Transformational Leadership
business models
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13. ‘Leadership By Levels’ ensures that organizations can adopt
a strategic approach to vertical leadership development,
enabling smooth transitions through each level
and harnessing people’s full leadership potential
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14. Program participants will:
Have a clear understanding of the new role, its
requirements and its challenges
Provide true value-added leadership to their people
Make better quality decisions
Improve stakeholder relationships
See the world from a higher and broader perspective,
achieving VERTICAL as well as HORIZONTAL mental
development
Experience personal as well as professional growth
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15. ‘LEADERSHIP BY LEVELS’
PROGRAM BENEFITS
STRATEGIC AND
SYSTEMIC
APPROACH TO
LEADERSHIP TALENT
DEVELOPMENT
NEWLY-
REINFORCES PROMOTED
MANAGERIAL LEADERS ‘HIT
RELATIONSHIPS THE GROUND
RUNNING’
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17. EACH PROGRAM LEVEL HAS A
CONSISTENT FRAMEWORK WITHIN THE
OVERALL ‘LEADERSHIP BY LEVELS’
SYSTEM
PROGRAM CONTENT IS TAILORED FOR
THE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OF EACH
LEADERSHIP LEVEL
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18. 5-PHASE PROGRAM TIME-LINE
3-6 MONTHS
BEFORE
12-15 MONTHS TRANSITION
BEFORE
TRANSITION PRE-
15 MONTHS EXPERIENTIAL APPOINTMENT
BEFORE LEARNING EVALUATION
TRANSITION PROJECTS AND
5 x CORE DEVELOPMENT
17 MONTHS PLAN REVIEWS
LEADERSHIP
BEFORE
LEARNING
TRANSITION
MODULES
INTRODUCTORY
WORKSHOP
18 MONTHS
BEFORE
TRANSITION
PRE-
PROGRAM
PARTICIPANT
EVALUATION
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19. WHY ‘LEADERSHIP BY LEVELS’ MATTERS
REQUISITE
LEADERSHIP
LEVELS OF
CAPABILITY SUSTAINABLE
WORK TO
MATCHED TO SUPERIOR
MATCH
EACH LEVEL OF RESULTS
BUSINESS
WORK
NEEDS
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20. WHAT NEXT?
Contact me to explore how ‘Leadership by Levels’ can help you
develop sustainable leadership capability throughout your
organization
Christine Baker
Managing Director
Requisite Development
cbaker@requisite-development.com
www.requisite-development.com
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Traditional leadership development interventions overlook the fundamental role that cognitive capability and socio-emotional maturity play in successful performance. In addition, traditional programs do not explain precisely how leadership work changes in scope as one rises through organizational levels. LBL allows us to create benchmarks of role requirements at each level so that participants have clarity about how to tailor their development plans prior to promotion.
There is a qualitative and measurable difference in each step up the organizational ladder in terms of work complexity and cognitive challenge. Potential leaders need to understand what will be required of them and how to develop themselves before they move up.
Organizations and their managerial leaders will understand what successful transition between levels looks like and how to prepare for it. Managers of participants will play a key role in creating and supporting individuals’ developmental action plans, following appropriate coaching by Requisite Development consultants.
These timelines emphasise the need for organizations to take a proactive long-term view of leadership development. The timings of each phase will be adapted to each set of circumstances. However, the longest phase is dedicated to experiential learning projects which will provide the most sustainable development outcomes.