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    Create your company's future leaders

    High effort

    Medium impact

    Recruitment is expensive, particularly when it comes to senior leadership roles. Cultivating from within lets you firstly identify who is most engaged with your business and where it is trying to get to and then, bit by bit, set out an individual plan that lets you and your management team delegate more and take on new challenges safe in the knowledge that there are more people to share the responsibility load.

    • We’ve designed our action plans to be completed in the order of steps laid out and explained why each step is important
    • Customising your action plan lets you set your own completion dates, assign tasks to others and get notifications
    • Helpful tools are provided for certain steps while a tracking metric at the end will help you determine the long-term success of your effort
    • A downloadable PDF version of each action plan is available if you’d like to compete it offline
    What's involved? Ways to use this action plan Measuring impact
    1

    Spend some time learning about how other businesses have gone about creating future leaders

    Impact: medium

    Why will this help?

    Learning from the experiences and lessons of fellow business leaders is the best way to direct your own improvement efforts.

    Treat every new employee as a potential leader from day one

    Nurturing junior employees to become future leaders not only helps to increase engagement and build solid teams, but it supports business growth in a stable, sustainable way.
    2

    Learn about proven strategies when it comes to effective delegation and giving members of staff greater responsibility

    Impact: medium

    Why will this help?

    Delegation is a key part of being a good manager, and learning how to do it correctly has huge benefits. Your future leaders will only emerge when they are given the opportunity to take on new challenges and venture outside of their comfort zone.

    Delegation is all part of being a good leader
    3

    Speak with your senior management team to identify three individuals who have shown they have the ability to step up, accept greater responsibility and one day move into senior roles

    Impact: medium

    Why will this help?

    Your senior management team will know who has the potential to step up and take on new challenges. Finding out from them who has shown good promise will make sure your efforts and investment are going into the right people.

    4

    Work with these members of staff to develop individual and tailored leadership programmes that suit their preferred career paths and help fill skill gaps in the business

    Impact: high

    Why will this help?

    Nurturing the next generation of employees is rewarding for both you and your business. But a tailored plan is required to make sure their adapted roles are being directed correctly. They can then take ownership of them and each plan can become part of the performance reviews and appraisals that go on ordinarily.

    How to nurture the next generation of leaders
    5

    Schedule regular check-ins with the staff you have engaged with on leadership programmes to ensure they feel supported and contributing in a meaningful way

    Impact: medium

    Why will this help?

    Once you've started employees on leadership programmes, it's important to support them properly. See where they are excelling and where they. need more support to ensure they are being given every opportunity to step up and become tomorrow's leaders in the business.

    Supporting staff on leadership programmes

    What can I do with this Action Plan?

    Start this Action Plan

    Add some extra information to this plan and we’ll help you get it done.

    • We’ve designed our action plans to be completed in the order of steps laid out and explained why each step is important
    • Customising your action plan lets you set your own completion dates, assign tasks to others and get notifications
    • Helpful tools are provided for certain steps while a tracking metric at the end will help you determine the long-term success of your effort
    • A downloadable PDF version of each action plan is available if you’d like to compete it offline

    Download and print

    Get a printable template for this Action Plan, fill it in with some target dates, and share it with your team. Pin it on the wall where everyone can see it.

    Get the printable Action Plan

    Learning Groups

    We also run Learning Groups on these topics where you can join other leaders tackling the same challenges.

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    How will I know if my action plan is working?

    Staff satisfaction survey results

    Staff satisfaction surveys help gauge sentiment at regular intervals

    Why this metric?

    Whether gathered anonymously or not, staff satisfaction surveys help gauge the sentiment of your people as changes are made and impacts felt.

    How do I start tracking?

    Use an online survey to get feedback from members of staff three and six months after making changes to see what impact it has had.