Leadership Development - The LMI Way .......

In today's changing world, Organizations are increasingly being differentiated by the people they employ and retain. In the last century, the ability to exploit Capital and Technology played a major part in shaping the success of Organizations. In this fast paced and challenging environment, successful Organizations are differentiated by the quality and mettle of their human resources.

Now, let's look at the recruitment scenario ....... Less than 20% of new hires are a good fit to the Organization and the role they are chosen to play !!! The rest need to be trained into their jobs. In most Organizations, and for many employees, formal education ended the day they enter. However, in this competitive and demanding environment, employees are increasingly required to update their skills - technical, soft skills and ability to manage people - Clients, vendors, public, Governmental and Statutory bodies, internal customers, Superiors, peers, subordinates and so on ....

In a world of constant change, it’s imperative that a a manager or a leader has the requisite tools and skills necessary to help their employees change behavior as needed by our Organizations to produce the results expected of them. In fact, change management is a critical skill for all managers and leaders in this century. The question to answer therefore is ..... “How does a leader(s) of men change or influence their team(s) behavior?”   ......

There are different kinds of trainings and learnings on offer these days, and many Organizations today are trying to keep their key employees abreast with what's happening around them. Nevertheless, many are on the wrong path and on countless occasions, the man-hours and money spent do not have a direct correlation on the post- program scenario that the participant gets back into. The learnings are seldom put to use on-the-job, the very reason the same was done in the first place !!!

As per the American Society for Training and Development, there are four levels of Training :

Level 1 -   Reactionary - or - 9 to 5 seminar type where the learning lasts as long as the session does.  Participants collect a lot of paper that is distributed, with a definite resolve to go through the excellent ideas given therein. They bring all that back  to their work places - push it in our filing cabinets - and probably never open them again till we want to dump more such stuff.

Level 2 -  Traditional - this is the formal education that stands us in good stead even today - in terms of subject matter learnt at schools and colleges. Our formal education as it were. We still retain only that much of what we learnt and continued to use. The rest is forgotten.

Level 3 -   Skills - much of this is retained by us due to practice like skills with typing, shorthand, computer applications etc. This aids us in our regular work abilities but may be lost as we move up or away from the regular usage of these skills.  These skills lack retention powers. Proven results are only through continuous application.

Level 4 -   Transformational training - This is a researched and proven method. This form of training is result oriented - it starts with the training and application of that learning - getting results - exposure to periodic training under constant guidance which culminates in retentive learning.

At LMI or Leadership Management International, we specialize in this kind of training. 

More on this topic, in future posts ....