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Leadership

The process of developing a distinctive concept of leadership within an organization is a wide-ranging and complex process.

There are a number of aspects that make up the concept of leadership. The concept has many applications within any organizational structure. The most common concerns are in the areas of placement, structure and culture.

Placement

Leadership is made up of three key factors. It is made up of traits, experience, and situation. Those three factors have to match before you get the right person in the right place.

The first step is to determine what combination, exactly, the organization is looking for. This is often a more complex task than the organization had envisioned. Each person has a set of individual traits. The traits are not too difficult to identify using a series of exercises or instruments. Determining the balance of traits required for each situation is a more difficult task. We work with the organization to help them identify the specific set of traits they would like to see in the person they place.

Experience is the interactive history of the individual. It includes; action taken in, reaction to and recovery from, all life situations to date. Parts of this process are deemed to be of greater or lesser importance in terms of any current situation a person would be placed in.

The situation generally has two key components: the people who are in charge of, or run, the organization, and the organization’s culture. How they combine to impact the organization is often very difficult to gauge. Each plays a part in defining the uniqueness of the organization. That unique combination of the two must be established to ensure that the right people are in the right places in the organization.

Structure

While the concern in some organizations is placement, the more pressing concern is leadership throughout the organization. We believe in leadership in terms of building an organization which would include structure, at every level of the organization, that would enhance any individual’s opportunity assist in the growth of the organization.

Culture

What approach does an organization take towards establishing a long term system of beliefs regarding leadership? Is part of the culture to strengthen and develop leadership opportunities at all levels within the organization? Does the organization believe that people are its most important resource? That belief, along with a belief in trust and integrity, goes a long way in providing the foundation for building leadership within an organization.