Are You a Leader or a Manager?  Do you know the difference?  A manager effectively holds things in place; a leader moves them forward.  Do your managers have the leadership skills and the knowledge to help you meet the Goals you've established for your business? Can they help you to advance your Strategic Plan and reach your Vision?  Hughes-Consulting can help you determine the most critical leadership skills for your business, assess current management skills, and assist you in transforming your managers into business leaders.

What makes a good Leader?  According to Warren Bennis¹, a leader in Organizational Behavior, a Leader:

• Innovates
• Develops
• Focuses on people
• Inspires trust
• Challenges the status quo
• Asks 'what' and 'why'
• Is his/her own person
• Does the right thing
• Has his/her eye on the horizon

James A. Belasco, Ph.D., stated in "Teaching the Elephants to Dance":  "Leaders create new tomorrows.  Markets continually change.  Customers continually change.  Technology continually changes.  Competitors continually change.  Each change triggers the need to create a new tomorrow.  The active leader - at any level of the organization - identifies this need and moves quickly to develop a new strategic approach."²  Are your managers ready to be the leaders they will need to be to get your organization nimble in the face of constant change?  Is there depth in your leadership ranks?  Have you thought about succession planning? Hughes-Consulting can help you in any of these areas..

Hughes-Consulting can help you to build a Leadership Development program that works for your business.

¹Warren Bennis, "Becoming a Leader"; ² James A Belasco, Ph.D., "Teaching the Elephant to Dance";