When To Start Leadership Training for Your Employees

When is the right time to start training future leaders?

If you’re asking the question, it’s probably too late.

While researching for my book, The Future Leader, I discovered an astonishing fact: most people become leaders in their mid to late 20s but don’t get formal leadership training until their late 30s or early 40s. That means leaders are in charge of people for more than a decade without any leadership training!

Too often, organizations follow a model where you have to be special to get leadership training. You have to prove yourself to the company, make an impact, or have been there a long time to get access to exclusive leadership training.

That shouldn’t be the case! Why wouldn’t you want every employee to get training about the skills and mindsets to lead others effectively? Why wait years and make employees prove themselves to get access to that training?

This is one of the biggest things we need to fix inside our organizations. We need to give everyone access to leadership training and development opportunities. They may not all become leaders, but the training will do amazing things for their careers, self-esteem, and engagement. It gives them the resources to positively impact your business, customers, and team members.

With the world of work changing so quickly, we need all the skilled leaders we can get. You don’t have to wait to start leadership training your employees. The sooner you can get started, the better. And don’t leave anyone out when it comes to leadership training.

I put together a video which talks about this in more detail. Please check it out below.

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