Leadership
Leadership Development
Leaders who can hold strategy, people and delivery together under real pressure.
The challenge
What we usually find
- Strategy is clear at the top but loses shape as it passes through the leadership population.
- Capable managers have been promoted into roles that now require a different kind of leadership.
- Development activity has happened, but behaviour on the ground has not changed.
What good looks like
Where organisations want to get to
- Leaders at every level understand what the organisation needs from them and why.
- Leadership is judged by what changes in the business, not by attendance.
- Senior teams model the behaviours they expect of others.
In practice
Leadership development that starts with the organisation
Leadership development works best when it starts with what the organisation is trying to achieve and the part its leaders need to play in making that happen. That sounds obvious, but we have seen plenty of development activity over the years where the connection between the programme and the reality of leading the business has been difficult to find.
We work with organisations to understand what they need from their leaders now, where greater capability would make a genuine difference and how development can be built around the challenges people are actually facing. That can involve senior leadership and management development, coaching, assessment and facilitated work on live business priorities. The approach will vary, but we want people to be able to lead differently as a result of the work, rather than simply having completed another leadership programme.
Where organisations need a way of defining leadership expectations, assessing capability and supporting development continuously, our work can also be supported by Calibrate Technology, the People Operating System.
How Clemorton helps
The way we work
- We start with the performance the organisation needs, then work back to the leadership required to produce it.
- We design development around live business priorities, so learning and delivery happen together.
- We work alongside leaders over time rather than delivering a programme and leaving.
Evidence and experience
Where we have done this
Related insights
Thinking on this topic
Practitioner-led
Work directly with Stuart & Andy
Clemorton is led by Stuart Maddocks and Andy Clemson, who have worked together for more than 25 years. The people you speak to at the beginning remain involved in the work, bringing their own experience of leadership, strategy, transformation and growth to the challenges you are dealing with.