| What was long thought of a desperate approach to | | | | into. Mostly this has to do with the overall corporate |
| failed leadership, executive leadership coaching has | | | | attitude, or culture as described before. |
| made its way into many "successful" businesses as a | | | | Training is geared to create a strong corporate culture. |
| mainstay. IBM for instance, has permanent staff | | | | A strong culture is where all staff responds to work |
| whose role is strictly to train upper management. | | | | direction because of strong alignment with upper |
| Successful companies are looking to maintain that | | | | management. This is basically saying the idea of |
| winning streak. Executive leadership training is meant to | | | | merely doing something because "it's my job," rather |
| help executives and CEOs learn about their methods | | | | than a personal feeling and the belief that doing the |
| and help them go where they want to go with their | | | | work is the right thing to do. |
| business, bringing their workers and constituents along | | | | There are pitfalls to a mindless following of this as well |
| -- willingly -- with them. This is done by evoking change | | | | and executive leadership training is meant to train |
| in the company's culture. | | | | leaders in recognizing this and finding a balance |
| Some Training Approaches | | | | between alignment verses bandwagoning and blind |
| For the most part, executive leadership training will | | | | allegiance mentality, which can stifle creative |
| begin with management: CEO, executives and general | | | | independent thought. |
| managers. It's often broken into groups, or a series of | | | | You may be familiar with past employers who, you |
| one-on-one conversations with the guide. Also if there | | | | can tell, held a position in a company that suffered |
| are special groups in the office that are given specific | | | | from bad culture. One dominant style of executive |
| tasks, training is provided by some guide teams to help | | | | leadership style is where there is a micro controlled |
| organize an effective structure. | | | | system will a lot of policy and negative reinforcement |
| Depending on where management wants to go with | | | | measures. Bureaucracy and procedural adherence is |
| the company and the flow of information the guide | | | | forced upon new employees. If not like this, then the |
| typically wants to understand the culture and thought | | | | groupthink opposite could occur. |
| process within the company and advises them on: | | | | Everybody is blissfully following allegiance and working |
| - Building trust for executives and staff alike | | | | happily in their position while the company could be |
| - Aligning belief system and promoting teamwork | | | | suffering terribly and implodes. One may venture to |
| - Empowering all levels to take ownership of their | | | | think of companies in the tech industry during the turn |
| work | | | | of the 21st century that were overvalued or had |
| - Refining communication and transparency | | | | corruption run rampant -- they possibly had a slice of |
| Some of the pitfalls within the structure are also looked | | | | this negative culture style. |