Leadership development involves enhancing a person’s capability to be effective in a leadership role. Furthermore, it can be defined as a process of targeted interventions that seek to enhance performance and  effectiveness of groups, teams, functions, and whole organisations, and expand the collective capacity of an organisation to engage effectively in leadership roles and create commitment and alignment necessary to achieve the organisation’s vision, mission, and purpose. 

 

Talent Management on the other hand includes all the ways that organisations can bring efficient employees on board, keep them satisfied and productive, and ultimately help them continue to develop their skills over time so that they can maximise the value they bring to the organisation.

Why Is Talent Management and Leadership Development Important? 

Leadership development is important for an organisation because it increases people’s ability to lead in a chaotic world. So when organisations look beyond developing senior executives and high potentials to unlock the potential of their talent pools, agility is magnified. 

 

To sum it up, one of the most important aspects of leadership development are that it:

🚀  Teaches them how to manage emotions. 

🚀  Encorages them to think strategically. 

🚀  Ensures sound decisions. 

🚀  Helps teams work effectively under pressure. 

🚀  Develops people’s communication and interpersonal skills. 

🚀  Enhances problem-solving abilities. 

🚀  Increases team’s understanding of organisational culture and values. 

 

In support of Talent Management, research findings show that there is a significant relationship between effective talent management and an organisation’s overall performance. For example, in a 2018 McKinsey survey, 99 percent of respondents reported that their company’s talent management was very effective and said it helped them to outperform their competitors. These results show that by investing in your team, you are investing in the success of the organisation as well. 

So How Is Talent Management and Leadership Development Handled in SAFe? 

Although Talent Management and Leadership Development are not specific to SAFe, what SAFe does is encourage leadership investment. For example, we need to lead from the front and understand what actions and behaviours are needed  to ensure Lean Agile alignment. 

 

In this case it’s going to be all about the behaviours and interactions between people and what their intent is. Having a solid understanding and behaviours that are aligned with these objectives requires the facilitation of an effective leader, that makes sure the interactions between team members and workflow is fluid and in line with Agile ways of working. 

 

By ensuring you have a great team through Leadership Development and Talent Management, you can ensure that when things aren’t working well, you have a foundation that we can fall back on and mirror what we could have done differently. 

 

Do you want to learn more about effective Leadership Development and Talent Management in SAFe? 

 

At Value Glide, through the application of  SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), we are able to offer agile consulting, agile coaching, and agile training specialists who work with organisations to align business objectives with customer needs and wants.

As deeply experienced agile coaches and practitioners, our team is invested in continuous learning through each client engagement and uses the data and evidence we gather from each implementation to inform our training, coaching, and consulting services.

In a nutshell, empirical process control or empiricism. 

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