Do you believe in the financial impact that leadership creates?

How competent are your junior and mid-level leaders?

Are your Chinese executives ready to take on regional or global roles?

Are you interested in improving leadership in your company?

Leadership is a challenging and rewarding role in the same time. Leaders have to communicate a vision so that everybody understands it; develop others' commitment towards the vision, and enable them to achieve it. The role of the leader changes with the skills, needs, and motivation of the employees, just as with organizational maturity and structures, systems and tasks. Therefore the skills required from leaders are many and complex. A leader must be a capable individual contributor, team player, manager, and on top of all this, a leader in the same time. Leadership includes universal skills like communication, positive thinking, etc; management skills like time management, project management, problem solving, and performance management; and very specific leadership skills like providing direction and guidance, understanding and meeting others' needs, managing conflicts, capitalizing on diversity, engaging and motivating people, developing and coaching others, etc.

What is the difference between Management and Leadership?
We see management as Transactional (run the organization as is) and leadership as Transformational (change the organization as it needs to be). Management is concerned with efficiency, as leadership with effectiveness. Management is concerned with the How, as leadership focuses on the What for. Management is about analysis and decision making, problem solving skills, Leadership is about intuition, insight and forsite. Management is Plan, Monitor, Control, Leadership is involve, include, engage, inspire, enable. Management is about Performance Management, leadership is about coaching. Management is about tracking progress, Leadership is about inspiring breaktroughs. Management is about business process improvement, Leadership is about new business models, innovation and creating new organizational forms.

However, leadership is not just a pile of skills. More importantly, leaders have some deep beliefs and attitudes that followers can feel and relate to. Effective leaders evoke genuine commitment and bring out the best of people, they gain the heart of people - and this is not possible via tricks or by quick fix.

Therefore, leadership development is different from training specific management skills. It has to go deeper, under the skin; to touch the very core; and allow the person to grow as a whole from within. Leadership development is like a journey, and everyone has a different roadmap. The key to leadership training is to discover a new world. Discover strengths, and find inspiration. In the same time also find the very specific "blockages" or bottlenecks; the very things that inhibit optimal performance and development; identify, whatever it is; work with it, improve it, gain nutrition and energy from the victory; and continue the journey. Please find a generic Leadership Development program.

At HRO we found that a CUSTOMIZED APPROACH to leadership development and a combination of methods - Assessment, Training, Coaching, and Action Learning - gives the best results. Please contact us to learn more.