CAN YOU AFFORD THE COST OF POOR LEADERSHIP?
No, you can’t. High employee turnover, low productivity, bad decisions and unhappy customers result from poor leadership.
Leadership training creates an opportunity for employees to reach new heights and achieve set goals. With this, performance is enhanced as employees strive to develop their skills through training. This allows employers to identify high potential employees who aspire to unlock their full potential.
Employees are more likely to stay focused and increase their performance levels when they are working towards their goal. They can see that you/your company are invested in their dreams, goals and successes and that is very motivating.
When you give employees a role in your company’s future, they respond with loyalty.
Developing your own people also is less expensive than bringing on new recruits, as it doesn’t require you to spend money on advertising, recruitment agency fees, HR costs, travel and relocation expenses, etc. In terms of turnover, the most common reason for employee exodus is a bad manager, that is, poor leadership.
You need to be strategic about developing and nurturing future leaders. Without strategy, leadership roles are often given to the most forward candidates with dominant personalities.
Quality leadership is a combination of the right qualities and the right training. Identify those who have what it takes and provide them with targeted leadership training. Nurturing future leaders supports succession planning and offers career pathways to employees, further increasing retention.
Training programs teach employees new strategies that will improve their performance, and in turn the performance of the business. As they learn, and see their skills grow, they better align to their leadership role. This further enhances engagement as they are motivated by building upon new successes.
It should develop among all managers a sense of responsibility for active participation in making improvements. As they develop their talents and abilities in management, they strengthen their needs of improving performance of themselves and their people.
Companies know that when conducting business, an element of risk will always be present. You therefore need to train your future and current leaders in risk management.
If you do so, they will gain strategic vision and risk management and mitigation skills. Improving leaders’ risk management skills will add extensive value to any business.
Without sufficient project leadership skills, leaders will likely struggle to handle all aspects of a project. This might cause the project to go off course and end in substantial losses to the business. Staff morale is also likely to decrease due to incorrect guidance and magnified stress.
By teaching effective leadership skills, your leaders will be able to better manage their teams and complete projects efficiently and on schedule. This increased efficiency will boost your overall productivity and result in greater profits.
Investing in leadership development sends a message to your people that you care about them and inspires them to meet and exceed performance expectations. Programs that include mentoring and coaching can boost employee morale and transform your company from a workplace to a great place to work. Leadership development programs also reinforce a company’s vision, mission and values by setting an example.
Further, a key component of leadership development is an understanding by the leader of their role in creating corporate culture. This understanding, combined with specialty leadership communication skills training empowers leaders to proactively build the culture from among their team and have a positive impact on culture goals.
Leadership development helps companies navigate both challenging times and times of rapid growth or change by increasing people’s ability to respond rapidly in unpredictable business environments.
Effective leadership is essential during critical times such as drastic change, rapid growth, workforce reductions, mergers/alignments, new product development, rebranding, corporate restructuring, political upheaval, changing marketplace and new competition.
Leadership programs benefit the followers as much as the leader. A leader with greater clarity, direction and effectiveness enables those traits to trickle down to those she is leading. Followers will have a great sense of direction and purpose, which leads to greater motivation to accomplish their tasks and produces greater organizational effectiveness. Leadership programs focus on teaching leaders how to produce satisfied followers.
Training focused on building teams ensures the leader is intentional in these acts, including: understanding roles people play on a team, group interactions, motivations and pitfalls of groups and more.
Leaders functioning at a high level of emotional intelligence have the perspective to make informed, intelligent business decisions. For that reason alone, you can consider your leadership training investment returned.
The investment you make in leadership training will return a very impressive Return on Investment for your organization.
According to a Global Coaching Client Study by ICF, 86% of the companies able to provide figures to calculate ROI from leadership training indicated they had at least made their investment back: 19% showed an ROI of at least 50 times (5000%) the initial investment, while a further 28% saw an ROI of 10 to 49 times the investment. “The median company return was 700%, indicating that typically a company can expect a return of seven times the initial investment,” ICF reported.

It’s not because most supervisors are incapable of leadership. It’s simply that most aren’t getting the guidance they need before they’re placed in leadership roles. To be consistent with the visions, values, and strategies of most organizations, managers need to receive information on how to strengthen their capability to meet their organization’s goals.
Accordingly, if those skills and capabilities are left unattended, supervisors will not achieve the desired impact and effectiveness. Therefore, providing leaders with training will bring them one step closer to reaching organizational goals.
Our training is not one-size-fits-all companies or all managers. At MEE, we partner with you and teach collaboratively to build upon existing strengths so that your supervisors:
Matt Episcopo will coach your supervisors step by step through their leadership development journey that honors all that they bring to the table and take their performance to the next level.
Matt Episcopo offers two solutions for leadership development: Coaching and Training. The 12-week Supervisory Training Course offers weekly virtual training sessions for a group of developing leaders/supervisors. Each week, participants engage in instruction, followed by Take Action assignments for reflection, debriefing and support material to further accelerate learning. Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion and draft press release that they can use to announce their achievement.
One-on-one Coaching with Matt Episcopo entails weekly coaching sessions for 12 weeks, where Matt personally instructs your leader, with feedback on their progress, holding participants accountable for following through on readings and assignments. Coaching allows for customization of learning modules to apply the content directly to the business your leader is in, or the challenges you are facing. Upon completion of the coaching program, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion and draft press release that they can use to announce their achievement.
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