Despite the recent economic downturn, leading organisations continue to recognize the need to build their leadership pipeline for the future. A recent CIPD Learning & Development survey indicates leadership skills (81 per cent) and strong commercial awareness (67 per cent) are seen as the most important critical skills in meeting business objectives in the next two years.

• A recent survey from the CIPD, Sept 2009, reveals that almost 90% of organisations now use coaching as a development tool and 51% consider it to be 'crucial to their strategy'.
• 70% report that coaching is increasing despite the downturn.
• Over 50% describe coaching as a learning and development intervention, the remainder stating that it is used for organisational development and change management.
• Over 63% of companies recognize the need to develop the role of line managers as well as a longer term culture of learning and development.(50%).
• Line managers supported by internal coaches are responsible for delivery of coaching in 63% of cases.
• Despite the fact that nearly half the organisations surveyed felt that their situations had worsened, many companies have continued to fund learning and development for the future to build new and existing talent.
• 40% of companies use coaching for performance management, one third use it for leadership and change management and 25% for employee engagement.

For more details see CIPD's 2009 Learning and development survey are available to download from CIPD surveys.

If you would like to focus on ways to build your leadership talent for the future, just contact us on 01-2832540 or contact deirdre@peopleresources.ie

COACHING THROUGH CHALLENGING TIMES

"Great players don't win trophies, teams do." Rene Carayol, Business Guru and Motivational speaker

Are you overwhelmed by the negative prospects ahead, are under pressure to perform in these unsettling economic times and are faced with difficult people decisions, whilst maintaining growing business results?

Discover the 6 steps to maintain a positive focus through tough times. Read more...

In these turbulent times, you or members of your staff may be facing redundancy or will have to make significant transitions in their careers due to recent economic pressures. PEOPLE RESOURCES coaching professionals will be able to work with you and your company to help your managers and employees transition smoothly to new roles and step up to completely new horizons, perhaps a complete career and life change. For more details…

If you would like to transition positively to a new career or new role, contact info@peopleresources.ie or Tel. 01-2832540 to make the first step in your future success.

‘you must be the change you wish to see in the world.’- Mahatma Ghandi

Change is endemic in every organisation and today’s leaders require enhanced skills in order to build a high performing culture, as well as managing their own careers.

Leaders must demonstrate that they can define and articulate the company vision and strategy, initiate and manage change effectively, take risks, and be an excellent communicator and coach.

One of the major challenges for the leader is in building a successful high performing team. The statistics on employee engagement provide a real challenge.

According to the Gallup Management Journal's semi-annual Employee Engagement Index:

• 29% of employees are actively engaged in their jobs
• 54% are not engaged
• 17% are actively disengaged

for more details see this CIPD article on Employee engagement

Does this reflect your company?