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The changing landscape of business and organizations has also brought a change in the way leadership is viewed. On the rise is a distributed view of leadership deviating from a single great individual person to a web of leaders. The focus is on relationship oriented leaders who are able to mobilize and inspire their workforce. One of the key challenges for leaders today is to strike a balance between task completion and relationship building. Situation too is a telling factor as no one leadership style works in every context. Effective leadership is able to adapt to situations ably.



Building a leadership pipeline for leadership development also means that there is a special focus on talent management. This remains a primary challenge for leadership development. Organizations have always struggled for the recruitment, development and selection of competent people. Today they have a great relief in the shape of executive search firms which offer their expertise in selecting high quality persons. Linking talent management to career development yields good rewards. Also how successful leaders will be in contributing to and changing the organization also depends on proper onboarding, another exercise that executive search firms specialize in.



To aid leadership development and talent management some organizations have opened corporate universities. The pioneer in leadership and learning development has been General Motors, General Motors Institute in 1927. Walt Disney too opened Disney University in the same decade. The Apple University and India’s very own NIIT university are other examples of corporate universities. Leadership has come a long way from the days of the Great Man theory. Today we believe that leadership development can happen at an adult stage and many experience or rather the personal crucibles of life as Warren Bennis put it, shapes leaders. Real leadership requires years of hard work and experience and there is hardly anything as an instantaneous one-minute leader. In the words of Walter Lippman, “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.The changing landscape of business and organizations has also brought a change in the way leadership is viewed. On the rise is a distributed view of leadership deviating from a single great individual person to a web of leaders. The focus is on relationship oriented leaders who are able to mobilize and inspire their workforce. One of the key challenges for leaders today is to strike a balance between task completion and relationship building. Situation too is a telling factor as no one leadership style works in every context. Effective leadership is able to adapt to situations ably.Building a leadership pipeline for leadership development also means that there is a special focus on talent management. This remains a primary challenge for leadership development. Organizations have always struggled for the recruitment, development and selection of competent people. Today they have a great relief in the shape of executive search firms which offer their expertise in selecting high quality persons. Linking talent management to career development yields good rewards. Also how successful leaders will be in contributing to and changing the organization also depends on proper onboarding, another exercise that executive search firms specialize in. Leadership hiring is the focused offering of top-notch executive search firms.To aid leadership development and talent management some organizations have opened corporate universities. The pioneer in leadership and learning development has been General Motors, General Motors Institute in 1927. Walt Disney too opened Disney University in the same decade. The Apple University and India’s very own NIIT university are other examples of corporate universities. ◄ Back Home About Us Global Services Our Consultants Partners/Alliances Resource Center Blog Site Map Contact Us © Copyright 2012, Cornerston India. All Rights Reserved. Site Designed by Digital Arts