What Is The Future Of Leadership Development?
Posted on May 20, 2013 by Christo Schutte, One of Thousands of Executive Coaches on Noomii.
Businesses today are facing a more volatile and changing environment than 20 years ago. Shouldn't our leadership development approaches chance too?
What is the future of leadership development?
Almost everyone will agree that we are currently living in a much more complex world than 20 years ago. Current trends in globalization and technology are forcing leaders to adjust in the way they are leading in this volatile, complex, and constantly changing environment. In fact, thousands of new books are written about leadership development every year and hundreds of leaders are sent for training and leadership development workshops. But are these methods effective?
More complex and adaptive thinking abilities and skills are needed from our leaders, but our approach to leadership development stayed the same. So, what is missing?
Nick Petrie from The Center For Creative Leadership made some very good points in his white paper called “Future Trends in Leadership Development”. Out of his research he delineated two key findings:
We no longer just have a leadership challenge (what good leadership looks like), but we have a development challenge (the process of how to grow “bigger” minds) and how to help leaders grow their capacity to hold many things at the same time.
Managers have become experts on the “what” of leadership but novices in the “how” of their own development.
The time has come for leaders to own their individual, internal development (mentally, emotionally and spiritually). Skills, competencies, and external development will not be enough anymore. Leadership coaching is already playing a crucial role in this new shift looking at internal development, but how can HR managers and senior leaders create a sustainable approach to leadership development that is financially friendly and effective? I believe this is the nut to crack as we look into the future.
What is your view on the future of leadership development? How do we breech this gap between the changes of environment and our current approaches?
Looking forward to your comments.
