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What could be more important to your organization’s long-term success than the identification and development of your bench; specifically your current and future leaders? Organizations that continuously, deliberately, and planfully develop leaders will be at the forefront of their industry. According to Barbara Ross-Denroche M.A., principal, The Centre For Exceptional Leadership Inc, in Vancouver, B.C. “[Organizations] must |
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commit to the development of an integrated and progressive succession and leadership-development planning system to ensure they have the future skills required for sustainability.” Although true at every level in an organization, the impact of human capital as the only long-standing, true differentiator in any industry—is especially at the leadership level.
Throughout his tenures at Quantum, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard, Rick Belluzzo focused on developing his leadership bench. He believes there is only one way to build high performance teams and organizations, as well as to scale outstanding business results across the globe: by making people great. In this session, he will detail his proven development model and reveal how to implement it at the leadership level. Dr. Jay Conger, Business Week’s pick as the top professor to teach leadership to executives, brings to business audiences a wealth of information from his extensive studies, research and consulting engagements. He will draw on this expertise to provide insight and proven successful methods of how to develop your bench. Together, these two diversely accomplished individuals in the field of leadership development will share simple and successful strategies, tools, and techniques for developing strong leadership teams.
Participants in this program will learn how to:
- Leading edge thinking on building powerful and effective leadership development programs
- The importance of investing in development programs that will lead to future success of an organization
- The importance of identifying linchpin positions and ensuring succession plans are in place to support them
- Develop systems tailored to the strengths, needs and outlook of individuals
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As CEO of Quantum Corporation, Rick Belluzzo is responsible for its overall business strategy and direction. Previously, as the president and COO of Microsoft Corporation he was responsible for guiding the company’s business strategy, directing business operations, managing sales, marketing and business development, and directing several of Microsoft’s emerging businesses.
Dr. Jay Conger was selected by Business Week as one of the top five management gurus in the world, and the best business school professor to teach leadership to executives. He is the Kravis Research Professor of Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College and a widely published author. In his latest book, Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage, he helps leaders secure and prepare their organization’s next generation of value-building leaders. Harvard Business School invited Dr. Conger to help redesign the school’s organizational behavior course around leadership issues. He currently is working on two new books, about leadership and strategic vision, and leading change.
Part of the Excellence in Management and Leadership Series. Originally broadcast March 30, 2005. |
