Leadership Development

Buy or Build Leaders?

“You might be able to train a camel to climb a tree, but why not just hire a squirrel?”

One of the constant debates in the sphere of Leadership Development is the ‘Buy or Build’.

There is no single easy answer to this as it depends on many factors such as the ‘are the skills actually available in the market’ and ‘cost-effectiveness of buy or build’, along with other considerations such as retention, succession, national workforce mandates.

Leadership Development – Value?

Is Leadership Development important? What $$ value can you place on effective Leaders – OR – the COST of ineffective Leaders?

  • An effective leadership development system is crucial to the long-term success of any organization. TRUE?
  • When it comes to developing the leaders within an organization, the stakes are high, and the potential payoff is enormous. TRUE?
  • An effective leadership development system is crucial to the long-term success of any organization. TRUE?
  • A leadership development sys­tem needs to be built around the future leadership needs of the organi­zation and appropriately adjusted to reflect changes in strategy. TRUE?
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Global Programmes?

Q: Does a programme from a global ‘name’ provide the best fit?

A: Maybe, but in many case not. Such programs may be too formal and based on Western concepts, precepts and culture. Such programs are applied across industries and as such may not be ‘off-the-shelf’ suitable for today industry.

UETMT Approach to Leadership Development

UETMT implements proven approaches to Leadership Development with emphasis on maximizing the use of these approaches by identifying the future needs of the organization and its leaders and leveraging this context to create an overall strategy that is ‘best-fit’ and not just ‘best-practice.’

Emphasis in the areas of assessment, creating interactive and challenging program designs, and follow-up support and evaluation of impact, with sustainability.