Ashford University Workplace Digital Age Discussion

Write a 4-5 page plan with outline of a first-level manager leadership program based on the leading others stage from The Leadership Pipeline.

Organizations must determine how to prepare or “grow” future leaders for all levels. The first level of leadership is of great importance because it is the employee-facing aspect of management. The employee-facing aspect of management is about employee engagement. The first level of organizational leaders is the first line of supervisors throughout the organization. This creates a worthy goal for companies to grow quality first-line supervisors. In the flatter, modern organization there are more first line leaders, but there are fewer paths for them to become strategic leaders.

One of the most important aspects presented in the leadership pipeline approach by Charan, Drotter, and Noel (2011) is the time necessary for development and transition to the next level of leadership competency. They make the point that a leader cannot transition from one stage to the next without demonstrating a good command of the leadership competencies for the level they want to grow out of. It is a tenant of the pipeline approach that leaders don’t move to the next stage when they only have shaky performance of the competencies at the previous level.

References

Charan, R., Drotter, S., and Noel, J. (2011). The leadership pipeline: How to build the leadership powered company, Second Edition. Jossey-Bass. Skillsoft Books BusinessPro Collection.