EXAMINING LEVEL 4:

EXAMINING LEVEL 4:

PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT

THE UPSIDE OF PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT

A leader’s most important duties after the people he/she developed are reaching their potential: to think, to envision, to strategize.

“...PEOPLE ARE ANY ORGANIZATION’S MOST APPRECIABLE ASSET!”

- Peter Drucker

For everybody to win…

• The people being led will become better at what they do
• More good leaders makes the organization’s current efforts improve
• New leaders help the existing leader by sharing the load with him/her

"When you look at people who are eager to learn more, you can bet they are on the right track."

- Jim Blanchard

If a leader is only on the Production level, when he or she leaves the firm, the project is over, because the effort isn’t sustained by anyone else in the organization

EFFORT

"If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you off in the right direction."

- Melissa Gates

BELIEFS THAT HELP

A LEADER MOVE UP

TO LEVEL 5

Leadership Culture

The highest goal of leadership is to develop leaders, not gain followers or do work.

• Paerto Principle: 80/20

• Champion Leadership: define and model good leadership.
• Teach Leadership: Train leaders on regular, frequent, consistent basis.
• Practice Leadership: Help emerging leaders to plan and execute, fail and succeed.
• Coach Leadership: Review new leaders' performance and correct their errors.
• Reward Leadership: Reward good leadership with pay, resources, and recognition.

THE LAWS OF LEADERSHIP AT THE PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT LEVEL

• Explosive Growth: To Add Growth, Lead Followers - To Multiply, Lead Leaders
• Buy-in: People Buy Into the Leader, Then the Vision

“The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” - Niccolo Machiavelli

Growing Through Level 4

• People a worth the effort
• Work through your insecurities
• Recruit the best people you can to develop
• Commit to spend the time needed to develop leaders
• Create a personal development process
• Never work alone
• Take responsibility for energizing others
• Remain approachable

• Process: Leadership Develops Daily, Not in a Day
• Addition: Leaders Add Value by Serving Others

• Inner Circle: A Leader’s Potential Is Determined by Those Closest to Him

• Empowerment: Only Secure Leaders Give Power to Others

THE DOWNSIDE OF PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT

• Shortsightedness Can Keep Leaders for Seeing the Need for People Development
• Lack of Commitment Can Keep Leaders from Doing the Hard Work of People Development

• Insecurity Can Make Leaders Feel Threatened by People Development
• “A leader’s role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize, and excite” -Jack Welch

• Self-Centeredness Can Cause Leaders to Neglect People Development
• “The Leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs” -Max Depree