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Victory or defeat The talent war is here. Building a bigger pipeline of leaders and doing it much earlier in their careers is critical if you want to win.
W e sometimes have too much tradition and are slow to adapt to trends outside our industry. One of these trends is around leadership – specifically empowering people with more responsibility early in their careers. Traditionally in the AEC industry, companies have elevated leaders based on their proven capability and only when they have also met a high threshold of experience.
Gerry Salontai GUEST SPEAKER
❚ ❚ How do you identify, develop, and retain those future leaders? It’s work and takes constant vigi- lance to be successful. An important first step that is often overlooked is the assessment of the sector and the war for talent has heated up beyond what we’ve experienced in more than a decade.” “Leading a growing company today is more challenging than ever before. We are in a period of healthy economic expansion in nearly every
Leading a growing company today is more challenging than ever before. We are in a period of healthy economic expansion in nearly every sector and the war for talent has heated up beyond what we’ve experienced in more than a decade. Finding the right leadership talent at nearly every level is a priority to support growth and maintain great service with clients and owners. And even absent growth, the normal transition from one generation to another requires emerging leaders to take on more responsibility earlier. Yet a recent study reveals that only about a third of businesses across all industries are fully prepared to transition leadership duties from one generation of leaders to the next. For each of the above situations, it’s past the time to get back to growing leaders.
See GERRY SALONTAI, page 12
THE ZWEIG LETTER April 24, 2017, ISSUE 1197
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