Leadership Solutions : The Pathway to Bridge the Leadership Gap

Building leadership capacity is mission critical. In fact, it is predicted to be the biggest challenge facing executives for the next decade. However, many organizations struggle with developing the leaders they need in order to thrive now and in the future. Even more alarming is that despite significant investments many have made in leadership development, these gaps are not closing. For many organizations, the leadership gap is becoming vast and serious, but where do you start to attack the problem? Leadership Solutions offers a practical roadmap that organizations can follow to overcome the leadership deficit they face, and to develop strong leadership as a source of sustainable competitive advantage. It outlines precisely what you as an organization need to do to build your leadership capacity and identifies what individual leaders need to do, and what they need from others, to bridge the leadership gap. Leadership Solutions also brings concrete measurement and diagnostics to the problem of the leadership gap. It focuses on how to diagnose, understand and measure the nature and extent of your organization s leadership deficit by conducting a comprehensive Leadership Gap Analysis , a diagnostic process that pinpoints exactly where the gaps are in both organizational and individual leadership, analyzes the challenges, helps in understanding the nature of the organization s leadership deficit, and generates leadership solutions tailored to the organization s particular needs and shortcomings. This approach ensures that limited resources are applied where they matter most, and that the organization derives the greatest return on its investment in building leadership capacity. Leadership Solutions is full of vivid stories and case studies, and features an Appendix with the tools necessary to conduct a complete Leadership Gap Analysis the Audit of Organizational Practices, the Survey of Leadership Culture, and the individual leaders 360° survey. Leadership Solutions provides the practical tools and strategies that individual leaders, senior managers and HR professionals need to close the leadership gap in their organizations and to unleash their internal leadership potential to drive business results.