In a recent worldwide study of CEOs, more than 60 percent believed that their businesses today were more volatile, uncertain, and complex. In fact, this research demonstrated that:
- Organizations with the highest quality leaders were more likely to outperform their competition in key bottom-line metrics.
- The cost of hiring new leaders and getting them up to speed was prohibitive
- Doing this every time the organization needed them was also time-wasteful.
Organizations must therefore invest in developing a pipeline of leaders who know their business well, from within their talent-pool.
How are global Organizations coping with this challenge?
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Global studies throw up disturbing facts here.
- A majority of the Organizations across the world are still to utilize leadership, their most critical asset, to its full potential
- More than half of these organizations confessed that:
- Their businesses were being held back due to leadership challenges and
- Their pressing need is to develop leadership talent internally
- Ironically, these organizations had invested in short-term leadership training programs that only taught concepts, instead of investing in long-term, customized interventions designed to tackle every-day business concerns keeping in mind larger organizational goals
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The Indian context:
Studies in India demonstrated that at the Top Companies, there is a direct correlation between building leaders and achieving ambitious growth targets
Key Observations:
- They have worked towards building a pipeline of leaders across the organization.
- These Top Companies do not depend on informal ways of development, but rather execute on robust processes for leadership development.
- They do not focus on carrying out one-size-fits-all training programs but focus on creating a personalized holistic leadership development process.
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Sources: Global Leadership Forecast 2011 by DDI, IBM Global Businesses Study, Top Companies for Leadership Study by Hewitt Associates
Why Wholesome Leadership Development Process (WLDP™) and not any other short-sighted intervention?
The Wholesome Leadership Development Process (WLDP™) equips organizations with a pipeline of highly engaged, passionate leaders from within the existing talent-pool who already know their business well. It is a holistic perspective that looks at the Leadership Development process through the philosophy of Wholesomeness.
Advantages of WLDP™:
- It is a long-term intervention that not only handles everyday challenges but also addresses larger business concerns
- Creates a pipeline of passionate leaders from within the talent pool and therefore becomes a retention strategy for organizations
- Enables leaders to integrate across boundaries of culture, functions, mindsets, geographies etc.
- Helps leaders to align their personal goals to long-term business goals and therefore become invaluable assets to the Organization.
The Wholesome Leadership™ Model:
WLDP™ is Pragati Leadership’s tried and tested flagship intervention that helps to facilitate the development of inspired leaders. These leaders in turn catalyze a self-sustaining process of leadership development in the organization. The program focuses on mastering leadership and learning solutions at the individual and team level for sustained superior performance. After years of interacting with various clients, understanding their challenges and evolving our approach with their changing needs, this model has been developed. As shown, WLDP™ focuses on the following 3 themes:

Self-Mastery and Seeing Wholeness: Through this theme, we understand ourselves by self-exploration, insight and implement the art of moving towards making conscious choices.
Relating to and Developing People: The process of awakening people to their own intrinsic power, by channeling them towards a common goal is the main objective of this theme. It also helps people support others through engagement and creating an environment which fosters learning and innovation.
Delivering Value: This theme helps in consistently creating and delivering the highest value to your customers through lean and innovative applications. Needless to say, a significant amount of support and involvement from the participant’s immediate senior leader is necessary to achieve desired results.
WLDP™ is offered at 3 levels in the organization:
The WLDP™ Success Story:
- Over the past decade, WLDP™ has undergone many updates in order to stay abreast with the demands of a rapidly evolving business and leadership scenario.
- During this time, Pragati Leadership has successfully facilitated 29 interventions of WLDP™, across levels.
- WLDP™ has been deployed across multiple industry sectors like Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, IT & ITES, Insurance, Infrastructure, Banking and Finance etc.
- The clientele includes names like TATA BP Solar, Wartsila, SKF, Bajaj Allianz, FOSECO, Dr. Reddy’s, L&T Infotech, Bluestar Infotech, Deutsche Bank, Sterlite Technologies and Sudarshan Chemicals.
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