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Does your business have an executive leadership program? If so, is it robust, a joke or considered a waste of time by people who would rather get on with the business that they are leading than with the business of executive leadership development?
If you don't have executive leadership training programs, why not? Does your organization believe in seat-of-the-pants, "s/he must be right because s/he is where s/he is" brand of leadership? Or is the problem that your organization doesn't believe in anything in particular in terms of executive development coaching?
The best leadership happens when raw talent is cultivated by experts in executive leadership development. The most basic leadership development program, good personal executive coaching, pays up to 689% return on investment. When you add effective executive leadership development seminars and retreats you can create an exponential difference in the trajectory of the leader and the organization.
The jury's in about the efficacy of a good leadership development program but it's mind-boggling how many companies ignore the evidence. In scrimping on executive coaching fees, they fundamentally compromise potential. The same can be said about executives who don't feel they have the time to coach - an incredibly myopic reason for not capitalizing on the proven benefits of executive coaching.
Leaders who use the "no time" excuse for not utilizing executive development coaching are exposing compromised leadership qualities that will undoubtedly come back to haunt. It's a reflection of short-term thinking, the inability to understand implications of returns on long term investments and probably a reluctance to reach their own potential. Executive coaching not only cuts through and handles those problems, but when you hire a personal executive coach you can count on moving beyond problem-solving into realizing your ultimate potential.
