Identifying and Developing Leadership Skills
What does it take to be an effective leader? Research used to develop the Leadership Effectiveness Analysis (LEA) indicates that there are 6 key areas, with 22 specific behavior sets, that comprise these effective leadership behaviors. From an organizational point of view, leadership success is built on many factors, including placing the right people in the right position and ensuring that they are using the appropriate skill at the appropriate time. Leaders and their organizations must be aligned, working towards the same agenda, in order to be considered “effective.”
Leaders and would-be leaders are faced with a challenge to embark on their own leadership development journey, and that path begins with self-awareness. Self-awareness, deepened by feedback provided by others in a 360 assessment, is a powerful indicator of what leadership practices a leader currently applies in her role. The LEA is a direct link to best practices research, indicating that the best leadership development is founded in a competency-based approach. The LEA specifically targets the concept that leadership and management roles should be treated as separate roles, and links those roles to globally-normed and validated competencies.
The LEA, is a data-driven, normative survey of an individual’s perceptions of his/her management / leadership practices and how those perceptions compare to the perceptions of this person’s bosses, peers, and direct reports as well as with the expectations of the organization. Bringing together these components – the self, other key stakeholders, and the environment/culture/expectations - is an important convergence point. In order to know which direction to travel, you must understand where you are.
The LEA is unique in several ways, including that it measures 22 leadership behaviors or “sets” related to successful performance in the areas of: Creating a Vision, Developing Followership, Implementing a Vision, Achieving Results, Following Through, and Team Playing. These are the key areas of leadership behavior that have been demonstrated to make the difference in effective leadership. The LEA measures behavior, not personality – there is no single “leadership personality.”
The Odyssey Group uses the LEA as a tool to launch an individual’s development by providing the feedback generated through the survey at the individual and at the organizational level. The information provided in the assessment provides a sound, proven structure to build specific, targeted, action-oriented plans to grow your leadership.
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Leaders and would-be leaders are faced with a challenge to embark on their own leadership development journey, and that path begins with self-awareness. Self-awareness, deepened by feedback provided by others in a 360 assessment, is a powerful indicator of what leadership practices a leader currently applies in her role. The LEA is a direct link to best practices research, indicating that the best leadership development is founded in a competency-based approach. The LEA specifically targets the concept that leadership and management roles should be treated as separate roles, and links those roles to globally-normed and validated competencies.
The LEA, is a data-driven, normative survey of an individual’s perceptions of his/her management / leadership practices and how those perceptions compare to the perceptions of this person’s bosses, peers, and direct reports as well as with the expectations of the organization. Bringing together these components – the self, other key stakeholders, and the environment/culture/expectations - is an important convergence point. In order to know which direction to travel, you must understand where you are.
The LEA is unique in several ways, including that it measures 22 leadership behaviors or “sets” related to successful performance in the areas of: Creating a Vision, Developing Followership, Implementing a Vision, Achieving Results, Following Through, and Team Playing. These are the key areas of leadership behavior that have been demonstrated to make the difference in effective leadership. The LEA measures behavior, not personality – there is no single “leadership personality.”
The Odyssey Group uses the LEA as a tool to launch an individual’s development by providing the feedback generated through the survey at the individual and at the organizational level. The information provided in the assessment provides a sound, proven structure to build specific, targeted, action-oriented plans to grow your leadership.