My CEO Life

I recently has the following comment on my site

Curious whether you have any  leadership development requirements at your company? Thinking about the idea of implementing Six Sigma, getting prepared to suggest.  Something like all managers required to become green belts, senior managers black belts.  Thoughts?

We don’t have any generic management or leadership training in the business.  However, what we do do is require all staff to develop their own personal development plan.  Once these plans have been developed by the employee, they are reviewed with their manager.  Those that we have identified as future leaders, are then encouraged to add some management training to their personal development plans.

For management training, we have two types – external and internal.  We pay for employees to do their MBA’s (on a part time basis) so that they get a good view of the formal way to approach management training.  In addition, i am a firm fan of informal, on the job training.  By this i mean that we give them constant clear direction, feedback.  I think there is nothing better than clearly letting people know how they go.

In the execution of personal development plans, we tend to pay for their development as long as it is related (even indirectly) to the business.

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