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Turning Risks
Into Wins
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Fourth Quarter 2019
R&A Creative
Enterprise Issue
Turning Risks Into Wins 11 Art Director
Mike Jurka
Designers
Take Action Tool
Filling Leadership Skill Gaps 14 Divya Malkani
Taylor Bell
With Leader Partners
Editor
Meghan Cortez
Leader Partnerships
How Airservices Australia 15
Addresses Urgent Skill Gaps
Quick Wins
Developing Leaders 21
for Collective Success
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Instructions: Create the ideal leader profile by matching your leaders with potential
leader partners.
Step 1: Understand whether the leaders are missing any of the skills
needed for the role.
After identifying the leader for a new business initiative, understand that leader’s
critical skill gaps using performance reviews, development plans, skills assessments
and other tools.
Skills Needed for the Role = Skills Leader Has + Skills Leader Is Missing
Step 2: Identify a potential leader partner who can help fill the gaps.
Continue to assess each potential leader partner, using the results from the previous
step combined with the results from this step, to arrive at the final choice for an
appropriate leader partner.
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Innovators
How
Airservices
Australia
Addresses
Urgent Skills
Gaps
C.D. Innovation, ability to set up new business units 2/4 Critical Skills
Pete
+
Innovation Jim, Denise, Philippa Jim
Risk Management Pete, Jim, Raj, Philippa Philippa
Commercial
Pete, Philippa, Anna
Acumen
Denise Anna
… …
Choose the Right Technical Skills (80%) Analyze Ability to Spread New Skills (20%)
Source: Adapted From Airservices Australia
Developing Leaders
for Collective Success
L&D leaders can use these quick wins to ensure their
leadership development offerings enable leadership teams’
collective success, not just individual leader success.
As L&D invests in reskilling leaders for the future, 2. Involve team members in identifying
organizations communicate a broad array of leaders’ development priorities to ensure
priorities to leaders. When we surveyed leaders, leaders develop the behaviors needed to
over two-thirds of leaders responded that 32 best enable their teams’ productivity.
different responsibilities, from innovating on – Help leaders prioritize developing the most
product and service offerings to coaching important behaviors for their teams’ success.
and developing team members, were all
highly important to their success. But the – Using the “Leader Development Team
support leaders receive from L&D does not Discussion Guide,” lead a discussion between
always contribute effectively to leadership leaders and their teams to gather the team’s
success. Only half of leaders agreed leadership input on what behaviors are most important
development offerings at their organizations for the leader to prioritize.
prepare them to lead in the future.
3. Build a culture of openness around leaders’
Leadership development is more effective
strengths and weaknesses to ensure leaders
when it is closely linked to the reality of
can operate as a cohesive leadership team.
leaders’ day-to-day roles and needs. Rather
than developing leaders toward an ideal model, – Encourage leaders to participate actively
L&D can better target leaders’ development in discussing their own strengths and
needs by focusing on their individual reality development areas to create a more open
and context. Use the following quick wins culture of skill sharing and collaboration.
to better align development programs with
leaders’ context: – Facilitate a discussion to enable skill sharing
within leadership teams, using our “Guide to
1. Develop leaders for what matters in the Discussing Collective Leadership Capabilities.”
context of their roles, not against a broad
competency model for every leader in the 4. Enable leaders to draw on their networks
organization. To do this: for development and project support.
– Ensure leadership assessments don’t evaluate – Make sure your leadership culture allows
every leader against the same criteria but leaders to feel comfortable calling on one
instead can account for leaders’ needs in another for support on key projects or
different contexts. development areas when they need it.
– Evaluate leadership bench strength against – Help leaders identify connections they will
the specific objectives of the business unit, need to draw on for support to accomplish
using the “Leadership Confidence Mapping their business objectives by giving them our
Evaluation” as a template. “Grounded Business Planning Tool” as a template.
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