The value of leadership and management training is a no-brainer. Employees train in leadership when they aspire to or are being groomed for management positions. Incumbent managers wanting to sharpen their skills often take refresher courses or participate in specific skill-building courses or personal style-awareness

Your leadership team spends considerable time developing strategy.  A substantial portion of that work is creating the vision, mission and values that will delight the customer and motivate the workforce.  Often strategy formulation will include an audacious goal that will change the business in the appropriate ways to make it viable in the future.  And, this work is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what must come next to drive the organization forward. 

As a senior business leader, you think about whether you are getting the best from your managers and their teams.  Is their performance good enough to achieve the longer-term strategic objectives facing the organization?  How motivated are they to overcome gaps in delivery?  Are they growing and thriving in ways that will give you a competitive edge?  What ways can you motivate teams and keep your entire workforce energized to meet even more demands? 

Key team members at your organization are responsible for bottom line results, effective business processes, productivity, and driving consistent skills and knowledge across their teams.  Every day is noisy and lots of people are vying for the attention of your top performers, yet even with those distractions, they must be successful in achieving repeatable and reliable results.

The market is always changing, and the organizations that succeed are the ones that are able to adjust their business processes efficiently and effectively. But preparing for change and building for success starts at the ground level: improving your own skills.