Leadership and Management
Having effective leadership in place benefits your business in ways difficult to even measure.
A clear and compelling vision constantly communicated and enthusiastically shared is a key to being a dynamic leader. Developing your best managers to help you run your business is critical to business growth and sustainability. It creates a culture and environment in which quality people what to be a part. Effective communication and staff development are underlying components to building leaders.
Leadership as a key strategy includes providing opportunities for people to grow, take on new responsibilities, leading teams and special projects, and training. You should be offering staff opportunities for personal and professional growth. It can be accomplished by bringing in speakers, encouraging continuous learning, attending workshops, or giving them an outlet to learn a new function or process in your company.
Paychecks no longer motivate people to work or to stay. In fact, pay is generally not in the top five reasons people work. It has to do more with the individual been felt as a valuable person and making a contribution or a difference. It has to do with personal and professional growth. Companies have to be a contributor to a person’s ability to develop their potential and contribute to the success of an undertaking, whether a project, task, department or the company as a whole.
Developing leaders helps ensure you attract and retain quality managers and staff. Enabling managers to develop staff provides the same value. First, do your managers lead? Do you hold them accountable? Do you effectively communicate expectations?
The value of developing and keeping talented people cannot be measured. What do you do to build your team? Donna Childs Consultants can assist you with:
- Leadership development – determining and structuring a program to develop key staff for their personal and professional growth.
- Training – putting in place a well thought out and timely training program to help you achieve the goal of adding value to your staff, as well as working toward developing and retaining quality people.
- Communications – understand and develop a process that provides for better and clearer communications throughout the organization which leads to higher employee satisfaction, involvement and results.
- Retreats – pull your team together for the purpose of planning, reinvigorating the team and renewing the creative mindset. Set aside time for problem solving, developing new skills and leadership training. An offsite day or two of working as a team builds culture and collaboration that results in better business performance.
Testimonial"On behalf of the International Sleep Products Association, I would like to thank you once again for facilitating our ‘Defining ISPA’ session last week at our Industry Conference and Exhibition in Florida. With 220 industry leaders from retailer, manufacturing and the supplier side attending, this year’s conference was a great success.
We appreciate all of your time and effort in preparing for and in facilitating a top-level program. This was a very important session for us."
~~ Debi Sutton, VP, Marketing & Member Services