Markon has achieved nine consecutive years of 20%+ revenue growth. We believe a key component of our success has been the growth and development of leaders within our firm. Emerging leaders are the future of your company. As your company grows, leadership needs to expand. You must invest in developing leaders today.
The most common skill our clients request is leadership and, of course, our clients want experienced leaders who have already learned their lessons on someone else’s project.
You must provide that opportunity internally. Markon’s answer to this tough “catch-22” is what we call our Leadership Opportunities Portal (LOP). This portal is simply a description of internal projects where the company needs someone to take some initiative and be the lead. Typically, a more experienced sponsor is the person creating the opportunity and working with the emerging leader to solve a problem.
This approach provides significant benefits to both the employee and the company. The employee is gaining confidence and experience making decisions, meeting deadlines, and dealing with the pressure of being held accountable for accomplishing a specific goal.
Markon looks at this as a long-term investment in our employees and as a company we are now gaining an experienced leader who can apply those skills in a client environment.
Markon’s answer to this leadership gap is our Leadership Opportunities Portal. What techniques or methods are you using?