How to Make Good People Great Leaders…and Reap the Rewards

A speech by Craig McCallum, General Manager Marketing at Mettle Consulting presented at the Australian Insitute of Management Leadership Special Interest Group that outlines how people can become great leaders and reap the rewards. A fantastic insight into some practical ways every day people can lead.

Why is it that we are so infatuated by the term leadership? Why do we find leadership so interesting, so challenging, so difficult, so inspiring? Thousands of companies, including many that are represented here tonight, spend millions of dollars on leadership development – only to get luke warm results…Why? Is it because they rely on leadership competency models that identify generic traits such as vision, direction and energy, for example, then they attempt to find and build next generation leaders who fit this model? One key criteria of leadership for you to perhaps consider as managers and leaders is the building of a leadership brand within your organisation that encourages people within your organisation to live the brand of the organisation and learn leadership styles and behaviours that are aligned to the promises the organisation makes to its customers, thus enabling leaders to respond to company centric challenges...

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