The Challenge
Today’s business world is becoming increasingly competitive, and many businesses are driven by a sense of urgency to increase their market share in order to generate ever-increasing profits. With so many countries experiencing fragile economic growth, mounting debt, reduced public spending and natural disasters around the globe, building leadership skills in the management ranks, from first-level supervisors to top executives, is critical to sustaining competitive advantage and achieving corporate growth over the long term. It is, therefore, more important than ever before to recognize that managing the financials is no longer enough. What matters most is a fundamental rethink in the way we do business and in our ability to pre-empt the needs of staff and customers, to give them what they need, when and how they need it, in order to keep them committed to and happy with the organization, whether at work or as a customer.
Confronting the Challenge
In the attempt to confront this challenge, many businesses and organizations increasingly turn to traditional classroom-style training. This naturally results in sustained behavioural change within the workplace. Even then, the value of this approach is significantly little and offers a one-sided gain. This is because while it is effective in helping leaders to know more about what is involved in leading, knowing what to do and doing what you know are two very different outcomes. The conventional class-room approach, for all its worth, overlooks other variables such as individual learner attributes, the quality and nature of the leadership development program and contextual organizational factors. A leadership development approach that promises a return on investment (ROI) must give consideration to each of these variables in a realistic and holistic way.
SK and You
SK Optimal Solutions Konsult (SK) offers what no one else can: an exclusive focus on leadership and organization development as a process. Ours is a wholistic approach that integrates the leader’s personal attributes and characteristics with contextual factors such as team dynamics, social influence process and organizational operations. Our approach is an action-learning, high-ropes model that allows participants to study their own actions and experience in order to improve performance. This way, learners do not simply acquire new knowledge, but they do so with an eye to immediate measurable performance improvement and a guide to future actions.
We like to think of our approach as “getting two for the price of one.” We help your organization develop individuals who become better leaders in the ways they think, feel and act. The result is a creative leadership team of functional managers who are able to take on greater multifaceted responsibilities in an enhanced organizational climate of accountability and social cohesion.