| Funny how so many organizations offer leadership | | | | Leaders and potential leaders need to be challenged to |
| training. Yeah its a money spinner alright! Money for | | | | produce results. They need goals or objectives to |
| you? Nah! ROI, puhlease! | | | | achieve. They need to show their staff and team |
| Leadership training? Yeah right! | | | | members they have what it takes. They dont have to |
| Leaders are people who achieve results. Leaders are | | | | actually do everything to achieve the results but they |
| those whose attitudes and actions lead to positive | | | | need to put a plan into action and see it thorough to |
| results. Sending your staff to leadership training may | | | | completion. |
| not deliver the goods you are looking for! It helps them | | | | Leaders accept accountability and responsibility |
| build a foundation for achieving the objectives, if they | | | | Put them in a position where they can show this. Let |
| get to implement the knowledge. Some never do. | | | | them achieve strategic objectives! |
| I have spent time with several organizations who send | | | | Leaders produce results!! Thats it. |
| people to fancy schools and programs. When I say | | | | Remember how Audie Murphy took the machine gun |
| fancy, I mean high end fancy, like creepers on walls | | | | nest, the rest was history? Yeah? He produced |
| fancy. Does that mean it will make your team into | | | | results. His attitude and actions made him successful. |
| leaders. Maybe. No guarantees. Executive programs | | | | Yes he had good training along the way. But his |
| are designed to make schools successful, not your | | | | attitude and actions lead him to achieve positive results. |
| company, or your staff. | | | | Those that realized he had what it takes followed him. |
| Some so called leadership programs are a version of | | | | Business leadership is exactly the same. You need to |
| EST and Landmark programs designed to give | | | | set people up to succeed. Developing a process |
| attendees an inner sight into themselves. Others | | | | where by team members can set goals and |
| provide basic sales skills. That is leadership? Not on my | | | | objectives that meet the organizations overall strategic |
| dollar! Shareholders should be saying. It is as bad as | | | | plan. Potential leaders that were successful in one |
| team building exercises around golf courses and | | | | area are often not successful in their new promotion. |
| resorts. It is fun but does it bond? It may work for the | | | | Well, they have not really defined their own strategy |
| Special Forces but that does not mean it will work in | | | | for execution of corporate and their own personal |
| your office. | | | | goals. Until they do they will flop around like a fish out |
| Like being a top gun pilot for a day is going to make | | | | of water. |
| you an effective leader. Lets look at Top Gun pilots. | | | | So what do you do? |
| They are trained like German Shepards to fly in | | | | Leadership teams need to analyze their past |
| perfect patterns and along preset routes. They | | | | performance |
| engage only in a prescribed manner, fully meeting the | | | | What worked |
| rules of engagement, stay in contact with fighter | | | | What did not work |
| commanders along the route, meet objectives and | | | | Then learn from these results |
| come home. On the other hand helicopter gunship | | | | Develop a positive attitude to success |
| pilots gather like a flock of geese, fly on selected | | | | Figure out what areas they will need to be most |
| engagements as they see fit or prudent, go out cause | | | | effective |
| trouble, meet strategic objectives and come home. | | | | Then plan their actions for the year for each area |
| Each are leaders and each achieve a strategic | | | | Develop a plan to implement each item in the most |
| objective. One has far more deliberation than the other. | | | | efficient manner and select the top 10 only. |
| Helo pilots dont run leadership programs. Maybe they | | | | Work the plan |
| should. I would rather have a can do leader than a | | | | Enjoy the success |
| perfectly trained leader who needs someone talking in | | | | Those that make it work are the leaders to be |
| his or her ear all day! | | | | respected. |