Middle Matters – the leadership level that will determine your organisation’s success

Webinar Series 2010

 Discover why developing exceptional mid level managers is non-optional for businesses today.

It's not the few senior leaders charting strategy, or the many first level leaders learning their craft that will determine your organisation's fate. If you want to gauge the health of your organisation's leadership—look to the middle.

 
Mid-level leaders have never been more important. They must drive performance in a changing world, manage horizontal integration in complex organisations, lead and develop talent, and make the tough decisions. They form the powerhouse of business today. Charged with turning vision into reality, this group has the widest range of responsibilities of any leadership level. Their role is becoming more important and changing faster than ever. However according to them, they are simply not being given the support they need.
 
Why? It seems organisations are not properly recognising the unique needs of this leadership level and consequently their development needs are poorly understood and often overlooked.
 
Business Impact LeadershipSM
Join us for this Webinar to learn why now is the time to focus on this level - operational and manager of managers. Hear best practice for development and discover DDI's new curriculum; Business Impact Leadership: Mid-Level SeriesSM.
 
During the session you will learn:
:: Why mid-level managers are increasingly THE critical element of an organisation's
leadership structure.
:: How middle managers themselves view their role and the support they are calling for.
:: Why general leadership development delivered to this level is a waste of time and resource.
:: The unique suite of developmental programmes DDI has created in response to the challenges
of driving high-performance at this level. 
 
Making the Business Case for Developing the Mid-level Leaders
The Webinar will reveal findings from DDI's latest research conducted with middle managers themselves, discuss why middle manager performance is increasingly critical to organisational success and discuss how leading companies are developing this vital level.
 
We will also discuss the challenges DDI clients around the world face that have led us to develop this brand new suite of solutions.
 
Business Impact Leadership—DDI's approach to bridging the gap.
:: What leading companies are doing to develop this vital level.
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A chance to look at DDIs new suite of developmental programmes created specifically to support the challenges of driving high-performance at mid-level.

Language of the Webinar: English

cost: free


Event listings for this series

Date
Event Title
Location
March 04, 2010
Middle Matters – the leadership level that will determine your organisation’s success
Virtual Event, Europe
March 11, 2010
Middle Matters – the leadership level that will determine your organisation’s success
Virtual Event, Europe