Leadership Development for Global Organizations in the High-tech Industry.
The context for our research: The rate of change in the technology sector is accelerating.
Companies vying to grow in this market demand a highly skilled work force with extensive technical training in fields such as computer science and engineering.
Enhancing the capacity of employees to see opportunities and lead change is a significant training challenge for high-tech companies.
Investment in leadership development across the organization should drive business results.
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OUR CURIOSITY
If many employees working for an organization in the high-tech industry sector engage in leadership development training, will they start to seize more opportunities and solve problems faster?
USEFUL FINDINGS
Leadership = An Activity That Can be Exercised by Anyone in the Company
Confidence to Exercise Leadership Increases
After completing leadership training, employees were more confident and prepared to engage in leadership interventions. These included:
- Approaching and solving problems in an adaptive way, instead of using a technical or procedural approach.
- Asking the right and sometimes difficult questions to their peers and superiors.
- Being proactive to initiative change rather than waiting to be told what to do by superiors.
- Running experiments to work differently and develop initiatives.
Employees are Thinking About and Doing Their Work Differently
After two years of leadership trainings in a business unit, managers reported that employees were more confident and prepared to engage in leadership interventions. These changes included:
- Employees use a shared language to overcome conflict and engage more collaboratively to break down silos across units in the company.
- Employees are more prepared to try new things.
- Employees are paying attention to the adaptive challenges in their work.
The Organization’s Culture is Changing
Saturating an organization with leadership development is shifting organizational culture to:
- listen more and utilize open communication.
- collaborate to solve problems in a more effective way.
- Shift the way they tackle problems, exploring conflicting viewpoints and conducting experiments to find better solutions.
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