Making Future Leaders | Numan Aly

Can organization afford to leave future leadership to chance?

The biggest quality of any true leader is to create other leaders. It is indeed a fact and feels very nice and professional to narrate it but critical question to ask is when it comes to doing it, are people doing it in reality?

Future of any organization is based on the actions performed in present to ensure leadership & business continuity. Developing & implementing a leadership development program to strengthen the skills of the current “to-be-leaders” & ensure a stable pipeline of future leaders is what needs to be done.

Change is the only constant and it is happening fast, and many companies don’t have multiple layers of management expertise to deal with such issues as compare to emerging competition, digitization, globalization, technological advances and continuously developing business models.

According to the DDI Global Leadership Forecast 2018, when the top leadership was asked to name their biggest challenges, 64 percent executives said, “developing next generation leaders.” 

Numan Aly (www.numanaly.com) is a Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) who has conducted multiple talks on this topic. You can check out his LinkedIn profile. Numan Aly has also uploaded multiple useful motivational and informational videos at his YouTube Channel.  He is the HR pro who translates organizational vision into HR initiatives that improve performance, productivity, growth by enabling, engaging and empowering people and organizations. You can also follow Numan Aly at Twitter & Facebook 

Organizations must improve the mechanism of selection & developing future leaders. Due to intensive changing nature of today’s work & environment, the past behavior of someone is not good indication of future expectations. Different tools that are used to get insights into a leader’s present behavior i.e. feedback tools, discussions, interviews etc. needs to be updated or changed entirely when it comes down to gauge the ability to deal with problems. Organizations needs to adapt futuristic approach to get better prediction about leadership qualities e.g. putting next line of leadership into different simulations related to different business cases. New technology demands new ways of learning. It is becoming very critical that organizations ensure personalized but relevant learning opportunities with pure focus on business context are made available to employees. Only an effective leadership development program can help an organization achieve its business goals and financial success.