New leadership model from SHL

New leadership model from SHL provides framework for assessing and developing tomorrow's leaders

With the leadership of Britain's businesses in crisis, according to recent research by SHL (1), the company has developed a framework against which organisations can assess and develop leadership.

The SHL Corporate Leadership Model is the result of extensive research which combines the currently fashionable transactional and transformational themes into four main functions describing the leadership process: developing a vision, sharing goals, gaining support and delivering success.

Professor Dave Bartram, Research Director, SHL said Leadership is about influencing people such that they come to share common goals, values and attitudes, and work more effectively towards the achievement of the organisation's vision.

The framework defined within the SHL Corporate Leadership Model outlines the criteria that leadership qualities required for a particular role can be measured against, broken into four key areas: the key outcomes and impacts desired, the desirable leadership behaviours, the individual characteristics that lead to such behaviours and the situational and cultural context within which the leader is operating.

Bartram continued: The importance of effective leaders has become increasingly apparent as the commercial environment has changed, particularly over the last two years. The SHL Corporate Leadership model gives organisations a clear benchmark against which companies can more effectively measure and develop leadership, not just at the senior level but within every part of the business.

According to Bartram: A key element of the SHL Corporate leadership Model is the clear distinction between leadership and management. The former concerns proactively creating systems or changing direction, and management, whilst the latter involves keeping an existing system running. This distinction is critical in an increasingly competitive business environment, as leaders are required to fully understand market and competitor realities, and engender in others a sense of urgency when change is needed in order to work together effectively to deliver the organisation's vision.

To obtain a copy of the Corporate Leadership Model white paper contact uk@shlgroup.com