focused on developing "Talented Organisations" and building "Innovation Capability"

Developing Talent

The world is experiencing a new business context – global competition, new start-ups, radically altered marketplaces, more demanding customers, pressures on margins. This changing landscape is also more demanding of the skills and capabilities of our leaders and our employees.

Gatleyhall closely monitors these changes, developing observations and commentary about business trends which affect organisational performance and leadership practice in a dynamic and more complex workplace. It is now clear that while traditional skills in leadership and management are still relevant, they need to be supplemented with new leadership, management and interpersonal skills.

Our comprehensive approach to learning integrates the results of our research with our tradition of leadership and management training to provide you and your employees with integrated learning packages which deliver the new skills required. This allows your people to achieve their full potential and better align individual and team goals with organisational objectives.

Talent is an indicator of one’s capacity to learn, grow, and develop new skills for future use. It also suggests how quickly a person or organisation can adapt to new challenges. By developing talent ready for the new age, the benefits are clear and measurable in terms of improved performance, productivity, and bottom-line results.

Leadership

Our research has identified the key characteristics of successful leadership.

1. Show determination to achieve excellent results.
2. Bias for Action and Execution.
3. Focus on the Market.
4. Find different and better ways of working.
5. Demand top performance, hold people to account.
6. Inspire commitment.
7. Readiness to change direction – plan B.
8. Encourage diversity.
9. Develop themselves and others.
These elements form the core of our leadership development toolkit designed to equip leaders with the skills they need to grow successful organisations today.

Management

In today's new economy, the old ways of management no longer work. The magnitude and pressure of competition, global markets, consumer dominance and environmental change is unprecedented. It's a very interesting and exciting world, but it's also volatile and chaotic. You cannot address these new challenges with more of the same management solutions

GatleyHall have looked at the impact of these trends and identified the new capabilities required of managers today. These are focused around three areas:

- managing self

- managing others

- managing resources

Each of these elements must be managed in a coordinated fashion and in line with business strategy.

Talent Development Toolkit

For further information on our toolkit for developing the talented organisation email andrewj@gatleyhall.co.uk or call Andrew Jardine on 07748 115449.