Leadership and management development

Great Leaders
Based on their research with more than 1 million employees and 80,000 managers, researchers with the Gallup Polling organization reached the following conclusions:

The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. They are of different sexes, races, and ages. They employ vastly different styles and focus on different goals. But despite their differences, these great managers do share one thing.

What is the revolutionary insight shared by all great managers?
People don’t change that much.
Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out.
Try to draw out what was left in.

This insight is revolutionary. It explains why great managers do not believe that everyone has unlimited potential; why they do not help people fix their weaknesses; why they insist on breaking the “Golden Rule” with every single employee; and why they play favorites.

Buckingham & Coffman, First, Break All the Rules,(1999)
pp. 11 & 56 - 57

Whether we agree with Buckingham and Coffman’s conclusions, it is clear that leaders and managers today face the imperative to recognize, appreciate, and make effective use of differences in the people they lead. This recognition calls for using a tool such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument, with its logical structure for understanding and accommodating normal differences. Isabel Myers’s ethic for use of the MBTI® instrument was, “the constructive use of differences.” This approach provides an essential base for leading or managing effectively in the present.

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Leadership and Management Training

The Leadership and Management training we offer incorporates the MBTI® instrument and this perspective as the core of self-understanding and leadership. Our programs range from formal leadership training to individual coaching sessions. It is always customized to the client’s needs and resources, and our work in this area can range from 1 day focusing on individual leadership and management styles to 3 days including assessment and development plans, with follow-up coaching.

Typical components of our leadership and management development training:

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) instrument
Maximizing individual strengths
Identifying areas for development
Using MBTI® knowledge to lead more effectively
Enhancing communication
Improving decision-making
Dealing with different time-management styles

Using MBTI® knowledge to manage more effectively
Managing meetings
Providing feedback

Developing goals and action plans

Pic of Developing Leaders cover with link to publications
Pic of Toolkit for Leaders cover with link to publications

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