"In spite of very real challenges, effective leaders are able to create order out of chaos, garner new resources, set organizational priorities, implement needed changes, and create an empowered workfoce. It's not luck... they have mastered the real work of leadership." -M.M. Callaway

A New Approach

The pervasive macro and micro conditions extant at the beginning of the 21st century have forever changed the roles and responsibilities of today’s leaders.

Contemporary understanding about leadership today acknowledges the new conditions and the new requirements for leaders at this time in human history. We have captured the essence of this expanded understanding in our leadership development framework that:

• Reintroduces ethics and values into the leadership role
• Recognizes that different challenges require different types of leadership approaches
• Balances competition with collaboration and cooperation
• Incorporates emotional intelligence as a core competency
• Accepts diversity in a leadership team and a workforce as a vital asset, not a liability
• Uses engagement and involvement rather than brute force to bring about change
• Acknowledges that people are an organization’s, community’s, or nation’s most important asset

The sole purpose of our leadership development framework, Effective 21st Century Leadership™, is to give a current leader and a leadership team a clear understanding of what effective leaders actually do to reach their goals. We have synthesized our insights into a practical, usable development framework of seven essential leadership aspirations.

Click here to learn more about Effective 21st Century Leadership™ and The Seven Aspirations.

Tailored To Your Needs

The context for our clients’ development is their own organization’s unique strategic and operational challenges. Our leadership support is delivered through issue-specific engagements, one-on-one consultations, and tailored in-house leadership development programs. All of our delivery methods incorporate real-time learning assignments, followed by review and feedback sessions. Where technological capability exists, we are able to deliver some components of our program through an e-learning platform.

Ms. Callaway leading a leadership seminar in Beijing with members of IMD China.

Individual Leadership Development We work one-on-one with men and women who are currently in leadership positions to help them create a leadership development plan based upon our Seven Aspirations of Effective 21st Century Leadership framework. We support them through one-on-one sessions and, where possible, use e-learning tools that allow each person to integrate individual development plans into daily work responsibilities. In-house Leadership Development Programs Responding to requests to make our leadership development resources available to middle managers as well as senior leadership, we create customized in-house leadership development programs. To this end, we collaborate with a company’s internal human resource professionals to a create customized, formal leadership development program based on The Seven Aspirations of Effective 21st Century Leadership that will remain after we are gone. This intentional knowledge transfer allows for cost-effective expansion of the program across business units and deeper into middle management. This is our commitment to sustainability. Contact us for more information.

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