In this episode, Kelly Chickos, Senior Manager of Global Learning and Development at STERIS, discusses the impact of Situational Leadership®.
Episode Transcript
Introduction
Welcome to Leadership Quick Takes from The Center for Leadership Studies. In this episode, Kelly Chickos, Senior Manager of Global Learning and Development at STERIS Corporation, discusses the rationale for investing in leadership training. For The Center for Leadership Studies, here’s your host, Sam Shriver.
Sam Shriver
So, bottom line, why invest in leadership training?
Kelly Chickos
I have never taught Situational Leadership®, building leaders, without at least one person coming to me after class and saying, this is great stuff. I can use this outside of work. And that’s so powerful. And really, we’re making leaders that it’s just beyond a workplace. So, I think any leadership development that people like me offer need to have value outside of work because we’re building great talents. We really want to strive to do that. I also think that we need to be mindful of the type of training that we continue to deliver. Organizations everywhere are becoming more matrix, and that’s not going to change. So the traditional baby boomer kind of viewpoint of that command control of, I have a boss, my boss has a boss, that’s really going away.
And that doesn’t mean to imply that organizations are getting flat, but you can influence at every single level. And the reality is adults learn what adults want to learn. You’ve got to give them things that are really going to align with your business and help them grow as individuals. And back to the topic of millennials. There’s that misconception that millennials walk in the door and they want to be the CEO in three months. That’s a misconception. What they do want to do is grow and learn, grow and learn and grow and learn. And if they’re not doing that, then we could lose them. So we have to be very mindful of that. We also have to be mindful that some leaders really take it personally when they lose an employee, especially if they lose an employee to another department.
And we got to shape that thinking a little bit that if you’ve really developed a talented individual and they’re advancing, but they’re staying within the company, that’s a reflection on you because you help develop that person for their next opportunity. We want to keep talent within the organization.
Conclusion
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