The Best Way To Access Optimal Leadership Development!
Quite a headline, but, in fact, surrounding yourself with other business leaders who take the art of leading as seriously as you do will drive you toward certain business success. Some leadership abilities are innate; some people were born to be leaders.
Unfortunately, however, there are very few leaders who came into the world with those strong skills. Reaching out to other successful business leaders on a regular basis and sharing what you've read, learned and tried and learning from their experiences and feedback will help you triple the likelihood of positive results for the entire group.
As a lifelong consultant to management of privately held businesses and author I have seen first hand that a business to business peer group is the perfect venue in which to facilitate leadership development. I have seen it demonstrated over and over again that business to business peer groups provide circular mentoring or reciprocal coaching opportunities, allow you to brainstorm regarding issues, ideas and solutions with people you grow to trust who have dealt with similar problems and situations.
Imagine if each one of the group members attended a leadership development program or read a current book that details critical new ideas about leading individual employees, teams and even, entire organizations.
If the group members then share the in-depth knowledge that they have incorporated into their own leadership practices with a business to business peer group, everyone else can benefit from not only the information, but also the practices tested by the group members in everyday work situations.
A peer group can function efficiently and effectively via regular telephone conference sessions, creating an advisory council of peers that will become a trusted source of advice, add a measure of accountability to your initiatives and provide a sounding board for the ideas of others and yourself.
When leadership development becomes an important subject for your peer group to discuss, you can be sure that all participants will want to add their knowledge and tips to the discussion. The peer group becomes a workshop setting where members are expected to add to the conversation their thoughts and knowledge regarding leadership.
Learning can become a accountable activity with periodic goals set for peer group members to complete practical assignments that allow them to test the skills they're learning about, review new books to share with the group and find leadership experts that might be interested in speaking to the group. Guest speakers can be brought in to share advice on a one-time basis, once the best of the leadership trainers and coaches are identified.
I have learned, as a lifetime consultant to management, that successful business owners become even more effective when they figure out their solutions to their problems themselves. We began interviewing business owners and thought leaders so they could learn the right actions by their examples rather than by us trying to tell them the best strategies.
The best way to approach your peers, the people you've probably counted on for operational input over the years, is with the knowledge contained in our Do-it-Yourself Strategic Planning report.
2 min - Mar 3, 2008
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