

Developing leaders from within an organization is critically important to evolve and grow your company — and to ensure you have engaged employees who are empowered to take on your biggest opportunities and tackle your toughest challenges.
As Two Rivers Marketing has grown the last few years, developing strong managers and leaders became essential to maintaining a healthy agency. Our managers have come from within and also have been hired from outside our organization. It became clear we needed consistent and defined leadership practices to help associates achieve success and bring our agency forward.
It was a priority to choose a management training program that aligned with our culture and values. One of our core values is to hire the best people, place them in positions they like, and help them grow. We wanted to find a training program we could put into practice every day, build trust for our managers and their direct reports, and establish ongoing and consistent feedback. We knew it would take a commitment of time and resources.Is your organization looking to start or improve leadership training? Read about the Connected Leader program best practices we’ve learned and implemented by working with Mike Wagner of White Rabbit.
No matter what type of training program you choose, you need a way to measure leadership success. Without measurement, it’s difficult to know what’s working and what’s not.
Consider this continuum from Connected Leader to track and measure success:
Make more leaders. Creating leaders goes beyond simply managing people. Nurturing leaders in an organization requires continuous coaching, feedback, and mentoring, as well as setting clear expectations. Formal annual performance appraisals are key to measuring success and maintaining a positive dialogue around goals. Conducting manager evaluations is equally important. These evaluations solicit and provide valuable feedback from direct reports and peers.
Once the mission and vision are in place, there are additional strategies that can help teams get the most out of leadership training, like the Connected Leader program. We learned the following from Mike Wagner at White Rabbit.
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