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Leadership is a key generic skill in the workplace
 All sectors require a proportion of employees or volunteers in their sector to know how to lead. For example, research into the engineering sector, shows that almost 100% of professional engineers will find themselves in a leadership demanding role at some point in a career to age 55. The professions as part of their CPD requirements placed on members almost universally demand leadership learning (though very few offer any assistance to obtain that learning).
Industry constantly searches for leaders. Professor J C Larreche of INSEAD over 10 years studied hundreds of companies and found that only strong leadership is what generates continued success; it contributes directly to the bottom line.
The UK Government recognises the importance of leadership and has made it critical to the achievement of the declared aim of the BIS (Department of Business, Innovation and Skills) to “raise UK productivity and competitiveness”.
Leadership is also central to the UK's Management Standards Centre’s (MSC) mission to develop a “skilled management workforce” and has been identified as a “high priority area” in a “rapidly changing world” by employers within the UK’s 25 Sector Skills Councils (SSCs).
Demand for leadership development
We estimate that there are potentially 10 million people in the UK – one third of the workforce - who require leadership development in the UK.
There is, however, a seriously inadequate opportunity for people to learn how to lead. A UK Armed Services study, surveying persons at one star level in 2005, found no courses or books provided them with adequate leadership learning over their careers. Other surveys by the Chartered Management Institute and CEML of managers and SMEs have reached similar conclusions.
Consequently, we developed the Helmsmanship Leadership Course for Adults, online, asynchronous, self-paced units, to meet the leadership development needs of individuals who need to learn ‘How to Lead’. Learners can access Helmsmanship 24/7 as required, either prior to or during leading. |
