Fast Track Your Teams’ Leadership Skills

Leadership training can be unsuccessful and expensive. More than 14 billion dollars was spent on corporate leadership development in the US in 2013, yet less than 15% of these programs were effective.
The longer you wait to improve leadership skills, the longer it will take to improve your managers' reputations with their teams – and improve performance, retention, and engagement.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Get results from your leadership training by holding your teams accountable through team-based development and support.
Focus on quick-wins or “low-hanging fruit” to see leadership skill improvements fast, and make teams more effective and engaged today.
Apply training immediately and iterate as you go. By doing so, participants are significantly more likely to use techniques and get value from the training.

Impact and Result

Use Info-Tech’s collaborative team-based approach to leadership development. Our proven methodology and process focus on easy-to-implement tactics that will achieve results for your leaders within two months. This blueprint focuses on improving skills in six critical areas:

Leadership brand
Communication
Inspiring staff
Meeting effectiveness
Conflict resolution
Strategic time management

Fast Track Your Teams’ Leadership Skills Research & Tools

1. Launch project

Make the case for quick-win leadership development.

2. Develop leadership skills

Improve skills in critical areas.

3. Communicate results

Present results to other IT leaders.

Fast Track Your Teams’ Leadership Skills visualization

Quick, simple, and effective tactics to make your IT leaders better at their jobs while driving real business value.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

Table of Contents

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Guided Implementation 1: Launch project

Call 1: Introduce leadership skills development.
Call 2: Review kick-off presentation.
Call 3: Launch skill rotation program.

Guided Implementation 2: Develop leadership skills

Call 1: Introduce project steps and key deliverables.
Call 2: Review current results and assess tactic suitability.
Call 3: Discuss team results.

Guided Implementation 3: Communicate results

Call 1: Introduce communication process.
Call 2: Discuss results and next steps.

Authors

Carlene McCubbin

Kyle Lubieniecki

Contributors

22 organizations contributed information to assist with the development of this solution set. Due to the sensitivity of the information, all contributors requested confidentiality.
34 professionals contributed information that assisted with the development of this solution set.