Who is Your Company’s Leadership?

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Who are the leaders in your company? If your answer is limited to the CEO and others who prowl the hallways of the c-suite, I suggest you expand your view because leadership happens at all levels of the organization.

In fact, your supervisors and managers perform some of the most important leadership functions in your company. They are the ones who must make the mission happen. That’s why leadership development at the supervisor and manager level is so important. Those people have the most face-to-face, day-to-day contact with the very people who make the company work.

In an excellent article on inc.com about Jim Collins’ experience instructing at West Point, Bo Burlingham quotes Collins as saying “But great leadership at the top doesn’t amount to much if you don’t have exceptional leadership at the unit level. That’s where great things get done.”

This isn’t a new concept but one that is not well understood by many corporate leaders and leadership experts.

If you aren’t ensuring your front line supervisors and managers have a real leadership development program, you’re missing out on the opportunity to make your company a lot more successful.