Leadership studies anyone???

Here is an older article on the lack of leadership skills in the UK. In business speak, the bottom line for lacking leadership skills is $$$.

Funny thing is that I am sure some in leadership positions will keep doing the same thing with getting the same results. Of course, I think it was Einstein who mentioned this was a defintion of insanity.

As a leader, if you are getting the same results like lack of retention, low employee morale, non-motivated workforce, and smaller things like employee gossip try something different after you have researched some prescriptions.

"...80 percent said leadership development is the talent management process most needing improvement..."

Kathy Gurchiek of SHRMOnline reports:

"A gap in the leadership pipeline, not the pending retirement of key workers, is a leading challenge for organizations, according to a 12-month survey of 700 U.S. organizations that included interviews with 60 HR executives.

Bersin & Associates, an independent research and advisory service, touted its study, High-Impact Talent Management, as the first comprehensive analysis of the talent management market.

It discussed its findings on HR best practices, HR systems, business outcomes, organizational models and workforce issues in a March 28, 2007, webcast. The full results were to be published in May.

Among the findings:

-Just over 80 percent said leadership development is the talent management process most needing improvement and the function that best defines talent management."

This is a call for leadership students and practioners. Study hard, it will soon payoff!