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Leadership Development Through Corporate Volunteerism
An
Innovative Approach to
Developing Innovative Leaders
Leadership Training Today (and Tomorrow)
More About this Tool
Getting Started
Resources on Leadership Development
Resources on Volunteerism
This Tool
is available on this web site in pdf
format.
Leadership Training Today (and Tomorrow)
The Importance
The development of your employees as leaders in organizations is of growing importance. According to 2,000 top executives surveyed, internationally, leadership development is the top human resource issue facing companies today.
Leadership skills are critical for employees at all levels in an economy where staying ahead of the competition relies on innovation and sound decision-making. Ensure the growth of your company by attracting and retaining leaders who have the capacity to solve modern business challenges.
The Approach
More than eighty percent of companies reported in one study offered some leadership training. Companies recognize the increased importance of leadership development in light of new business challenges; yet, old methods for training employees continue to be used. Instructor-led, classroom courses is the most widely implemented approach to leadership training, an approach that is counterintuitive to a novel paradigm shift in the way business is conducted.
Fostering innovative leaders takes an innovative approach! Non-traditional delivery methods of leadership development, such as Outward Bound Pro are far less implemented, yet evidence of the benefits of experiential learning supports the superiority of this method.
So, how do you facilitate employee leadership development - from the top executive to the front-line worker - to meet organizational requirements, increase profits and productivity, and provide quality service, in an era of virtual offices, teleconferencing, and exacting customer service?
The Alliance advocates an experiential approach: leadership development through volunteerism. Your community offers a rich classroom for learning and the ideal forum for enhancing your corporate image, advertising your services, and building tremendous organizational capacity.
The Impact
There are numerous advantages to using volunteerism as your vehicle to leadership development. Such benefits are not typically found in traditional training programs.
Community-wide Benefits
- Convey a positive, socially responsible corporate image (opportunities for media coverage)
- Market your services/products and educate the community
- Network to make and shape future business relationships
- Engender trust in the community
- Discover unmet needs for services/products of community members
- Understand local social patterns and government policies and regulations
- Promote your corporate culture and your employees
- Reach
out to labor pool
Other Organizational Benefits
- Recruit high quality employees
- Demonstrate your commitment to diversity
- Build business knowledge via cross functional and hierarchical boundaries
- Enhance productivity, reduce absenteeism, increase job satisfaction, and reduce burnout of current employees
- Engage employees in valuable professional and personal experiences
- Build employee moral and foster company loyalty
- Build intellectual capital (e.g., creativity, conflict resolution)
- Model the importance of assessment and accountability
- Strengthen relationships with coworkers
Interested in experiencing such benefits? Use this tool to start tomorrow.
