How can you ensure that your organisation has the right mix of effective leadership and skilled talent to position itself at a competitive advantage? By developing a leadership strategy that integrates and tightly aligns business strategy, operations, and financial planning, with culture, organisation development, and leadership capability. Such a strategy forces leaders to think long-term to ensure that the business plans they drive strategically incorporate leadership development as a key component.

This Infoline presents a simple, business-centric model that will help you build a leadership strategy for your organisation in four simple steps:

1. linking business strategy to leadership and organisation capability needs

2. assessing the talent portfolio against current and future leadership capability needs

3. implementing the leadership strategy

4. measuring and sustaining traction.

This issue includes assessments to help you understand the business landscape and what your organisation’s current leadership portfolio and strategy needs to drive business goals.