Top-performing organizations understand that world-class executive leadership is essential to navigate the uncertainties of today's global economy. Never before have the stakes been higher or the consequences more far-reaching. Never before has top-caliber leadership been more critical to securing your organization's future growth. Yet many wonder if today's leaders are equal to the challenges tomorrow will bring.

Our Value
An Optimized Leadership Strategy

Gallup's behavioral scientists have studied successful leaders for more than 50 years, meticulously researching and categorizing the strengths that separate highly effective executives from the rest. Our position is that leaders must capitalize on what makes them strong instead of trying to repair what makes them weak. Our research shows that strengths building -- rather than weakness fixing -- links to the highest return on your organization's developmental investment.

Many organizations' leadership development and succession planning processes work to perpetuate the status quo, limit diversity, and stifle ingenuity and risk taking. Our innovative approach to succession management overcomes these obstacles and provides organizations with the opportunity to:

• establish an effective leadership team that meets organizational objectives
• reduce variance - and improve performance -- in leadership and management positions
• identify and leverage the leadership talent that already exists in your organization

Our approach to leadership development and succession management focuses on getting the right people in the right roles at all levels of the organization. Our solutions help organizations:

• identify the best internal candidates for each position
• reduce attrition among top performers at all levels
• develop potential successors in ways that best fit their greatest strengths
• concentrate key resources on succession planning and talent development to yield a greater return on investment

A Scientific Framework for Executive Development and Impact

Unlike most one-size-fits-all leadership programs, Gallup delivers an accelerated executive development process uniquely tailored to each organization's strategy. Our in-depth program helps leaders tap into and build on their own leadership strengths.

Gallup's Demands of Executive Leadership framework is built on the belief that learning is an ongoing process upon which organizational -- as well as personal -- capacity is built. Optimal results are achieved through activities that enable participants to apply theoretical learning to experiential development. This approach helps leaders solve individual, team, and business unit challenges and demonstrates return on your development investment.

Knowing one's self -- especially one's greatest strengths -- is key to understanding and fulfilling the Demands of Executive Leadership. Through decades of study of top-performing leaders from around the world, we have identified the demands that are crucial to success in the executive role. Our framework is designed to help leaders assess their effectiveness across these demands.

The Demands of Executive Leadership

• Knowing Self: building deep insight into one's talent, limitations, values, and goals
• Visioning: painting a compelling picture of the future that inspires others to action
• Maximizing Values: enhancing the organization's core commitments and identity
• Mentoring: investing in learning partnerships to strengthen the talent pipeline
• Building a Constituency: mobilizing diverse groups across and beyond the organization
• Challenging Experience: constantly raising the bar for performance expectations
• Making Sense of Experience: helping others navigate complex environments

These demands provide leaders with an essential framework that prepares them to meet their organization's greatest challenges. They also serve as the foundation for formulating a clear leadership development strategy and devising an actionable, outcomes-based plan for achieving developmental objectives.

Executive leaders receive the measurement tools they need to track their real-world leadership impact over time. Through the customized development process, leaders have direct access to highly trained Gallup consultants. These consultants provide the individualized, strengths-based coaching that leaders need to grow in their role and greatly expand their influence within their organization.

Is your organization's executive leadership ready to confront the challenges of the future and lead your company into a new era of prosperity?

Contact us to learn more about how your organization can build a leadership pipeline.