Leadership Development Programs to Integrate Business and People - Continuous Journey

Leadership development aims at developing set of people to expand the collective capacity of leaders at all job level, so that they can engage, co-create and effectively handle overall business outcome. In todays globally competitive environment, Leadership development has become the necessity than a choice for organization (s) which are looking at sustained business growth irrespective of its presence in either global or local market. Till few years back, leadership development was seen as a training intervention to develop class of management members to showcase them as role model for rest of the organization. In todays context, organizations which are well focused, have realized that leadership development is organization-wide spread over activity across various levels and the real success comes through commitment of organization, people (talent) and business (market), in developing dynamic leadership. This Research paper discusses that Leadership Development is incomplete, if the development does not cover leadership influence on positive business performance and consistency in people engagement. The author has attempted to design a global Leadership Development Model BULP (Business Umbrella for Leadership Program). The model is the outcome of a detailed research study done in Bangalore based select 8 companies (comprising of both Indian and MNCs) which are in existence since average 35 years.