Current Leadership Models Are Flawed! | Leadership Worx

Our current leadership models are flawed. How do I know this? Research! In Understanding the Leadership Gap: A Quantitative Analysis of Leadership Effectiveness, The Center For Creative Leadership ?surfaced a surprising challenge ? the presence of a skills gap. Leaders in both the East and West report an overwhelming lack of preparedness?. (p. 4) Research by The Corporate Leadership Council echoed this same concern: close to 60% of organizations state experiencing a shortage in leadership, swelling a significant and frightening 40 percentage points from one year ago.

The findings of Executive Development Associates (EDA) document that this lack of preparedness isn?t limited to existing leaders. Leaders-in-waiting are also unprepared. EDA?s report on executive development trends identified increasing bench strength as the top priority of executive development in the next few years. EDA research ranked the top 5 skills the next wave of leaders are deficient in: (1) strategic thinking, (2), leading change, (3) creating a vision and engaging others around that, (4) inspiring others, and (5) systems thinking.

This research evidences and lends credence to the belief that existing models and paradigms aren?t addressing our most pressing leadership challenges. Organizations and executive leadership now find themselves with and without: with a skills gap that only seems to be growing and without an updated map for the journey to close that gap. As Dr. David Leonard observed in?Putting Success Back in Succession Planning: The Role of Learning and Development, adding to the complexity of this current and growing leadership skills gap is the fact that ?About half of all organizations have a process in place to identify high potential leaders, but less than two in five have a program to accelerate their development.? (p. 2) Reality is confronting us and the storyline is current leadership models aren?t addressing the growing leadership skills gap.

How do we address this obviously growing problem? For me, the response is simple: design a new leadership model that addresses what is confronting us. What would that model look like? It would look like the model offered in Modernizing The Hero?s Journey: Maximizing Leadership Presence. In this white paper I designed a transtheoretical model of leadership effectiveness. A transtheoretical model is one that is derived from attempting to rise above any one model of leadership (or discipline for that matter) to see what universal principles might underlie them all. Thus, what is offered in this white paper incorporates many proven theories, tools, and methodologies from a number of thought leaders in the field of leadership, management, education, training, and self improvement. It is a model that explains and maps the system for closing the growing leadership skills gap.

When you decide to address the growing leadership skills gap in your organization, let us know. Ready when you are.

Busy closing gaps,
Dr. Tomi

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