Leadership development, we believe, is a critical need and not an optional one. As such, at enreap we have worked intentionally to create a culture of leadership development to ensure that we have the right people driving our organization’s success. The aim of establishing a clear and well-defined culture for leadership development was to ensure that we have the right processes in place that help our employees to develop the skills and knowledge needed to lead successful teams.
Here are 7 things we do at enreap to further a culture of leadership development.
- Leadership Development – An Intentional Exercise
We have been focused on creating a culture where we are always intentional about leadership growth and not merely at the annual performance review. Owing to this we have an organizational culture that is focused on continuous learning and continuous improvement through continuous support and proactive feedback.
Our culture is one where feedback is offered often and with positive intent. This approach makes the environment across the entire organization extremely enabling, encouraging, and conducive to leadership development.
- Structured and Organized Approach
Our leadership development approach is extremely well-thought-out and structured. We employ a comprehensive leadership development platform to curate well-designed and effective leadership development programs. These programs are contextual and relevant to the needs of the employees and help us drive the culture of continuous learning at enreap.
Our leadership development programs are also not day-long training sessions. They are comprehensive programs spread over five to six months. These programs focus on essential leadership aspects such as leading with emotional intelligence, contextual leadership, managing conflict, decision-making, empathy, teamwork and collaboration, and other crucial critical skills necessary to lead organizations in this competitive market.
We have also identified that emerging leaders and established leaders have different learning needs. As such, we have curated programs that address the specific needs of the demographic.
- Leadership Exposure
We believe the mantra ‘Knowledge shared is knowledge doubled’. We deem that the power of shared experiences and opportunities to learn from others contributes tremendously to developing leadership capabilities and becoming a better leader.
Our Emerging Leader Program (ELP) is an initiative that supports this intent. This program provides a platform for emerging leaders from within our organization to engage with leaders from other organizations across industries. This facilitates tremendous learning as these young leaders can share and exchange their learning in a systematic and organized manner.
- Training and Support
We have robust training programs to ensure that the technical and critical skill needs of our employees are always addressed. We encourage our employees to follow their passions and encourage cross-functional development as well.
- Identifying and Accelerating High-potential Employee Growth
We are also focused on identifying, promoting, and accelerating high-potential employee growth across the organizations. Our clear HR policies and hiring strategies make sure that we have a wide pool to choose from.
People who display high levels of ownership, willingness to learn, merit and performance, and code of conduct along with alignment with organizational values are put on the high path to success. The focus on leadership development with the high potential employees primarily concentrates on critical skill development.
Critical skills such as resilience, empathy, the growth mindset, equity, etc. become crucial when leading today’s organizations. These skills are also influenced by unconscious bias and limiting beliefs. As such, enabling people to develop and hone these skills demands greater self-awareness.
Our leadership development platform provides comprehensive critical skill development programs that drive behavioral change and creates better, relevant and empathetic leaders.
- Developing a Leadership Pipeline
Tenure does not play any role when we identify our high-potential employees. When it comes to leadership pipelines, we want to fill them with the ones with the best attitudes and skills. As such, people who have displayed the right behavioral characteristics and winning attitudes towards work have been rewarded with early promotions.
These high-potential employees are given the appropriate leadership training. However, the culture at enreap ensures that all the people are helped when they apply these learnings in the workplace. We help them build their confidence as they move into leadership roles and increase responsibilities gradually so that people can settle into their roles with ease.
- Mentoring Focus
A robust culture of mentoring provides vital support to our leadership development strategies. One of our core beliefs is that ‘we rise by lifting others’. As such our mentorship strategies ensure that our employees can ‘play safe’ and take all the support from their mentors till they are ready to fly independently.
Mentoring initiatives help our employees exchange their thoughts and views, explore, and find solutions to complex problems and develop a clear understanding of ‘how leadership works’ by taking the guidance and support of the experienced.
The objective of mentoring is to help young leaders find their leadership voice in a safe and nurturing environment that delivers the support they need when they need it.
The Culture of Growth at enreap
The culture of leadership development at enreap is mired in process and feedback. The tools and processes that we use also compel everyone to pay attention to growth and development regularly. The culture makes sure that it is constantly enabling people to expand their skills and delivering the support of mentors to help them remain curious and confident about identifying new and improved ways to solve problems and remain on their path to growth. We enjoy that great leadership for our organization emerges as a natural outcome of these efforts.
