![]() So What are the Elements of Good Professional Development?ĭrawing on my own experience and the experiences of the talented people around me at TXM, the following are the key elements of a successful professional development program that will provide the leaders your business will need for the future: They pride themselves on offering a career path for employees from graduation to the C-suite. So how are companies like Boeing and Toyota enable to find leaders who can lead the various parts of their business in a consistent way? The answer is that these companies consciously work to develop leaders at all levels of their business. ![]() Often I see companies pulled from one direction to another as external appointment after external appointment get recruited to key roles and then moved on to be replaced by another external appointment. Of course the new person would bring their own personal style, strengths and weaknesses, but they would still manage the business in a “Boeing way”. What he meant (or what I took him to mean) is that his replacement would be someone who had been developed through the Boeing system, who was steeped in the Boeing values and aligned with the Boeing vision and strategy. He was coming to the end of his tenure in Australia, but stated that this change would not affect the business as his replacement would be “another Boeing person”. One statement he made particularly caught my attention. The answer is, of course their people.Ī few years ago I saw a speech by the President of Boeing Aerostructures Australia. So what is it that makes the really great companies companies so successful? What enables them to grow and grow. When I look around the TXM team I see successful professionals who all started their careers with leading global companies such as Boeing, Ford, Autoliv, Toyota and GM. In my case, it wasn’t Toyota, but the German chemical giant Hoechst AG. I had the good fortune to start my career in a major global corporation. ![]() According to one of the many books about Toyota, a common expression heard around Toyota is “We do not just build cars, we build people.” It sounds nice, but what does it practically mean? ![]()
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