We are about to face an unprecented and profound vaccuum of and war for leadership talent.

Why? Several major trends are colliding together:

1. Over the next 6-10 years, there is the potential for 76 million baby boomers to retire, with just 46 million workers available for replacement. The Economist published a special report on “The Search For Talent” in its October 7, 2006, indicating, “By one count, half the top people at America’s 500 leading companies will go in the next five years.” As that pool of leaders leave organizations, so too does much institutional knowledge. It also means that younger, less-experienced workers will assume leadership responsibilities earlier in their careers, often without the benefit of a veteran mentor to guide and help prevent costly rookie mistakes.
   

2. Rapidly changing demographics are projected to have a profound impact on labor pools and management resources in organizations in almost every industry for years. What does that mean? Leaders in every organization will need to know how to manage, inspire, motivate and cross-pollinate ideas across all dimensions of diversity -- cultural, gender, generational, etc.-- if they are to succeed.

3. The pace and complexity of global change is increasing every year. Leaders in a global marketplace need to know how to manage ambiguity, paradox and change -- across time, distance and culture. A shortage of globally-minded knowledge workers and experienced leaders could compromise an organization's ability to execute complex strategies or manage business transformation in the fast-moving, global marketplace.
   

4. The digitalization of the world is requiring many businesses to dramatically re-shape their core value proposition, realign their core strategic objectives and re-tool their leaders with new mindsets and skillsets. Keeping pace with continuous learning will be the challenge for leaders of the future.

5. To become more nimble and responsive to customer needs in a global, digital marketplacr, older, more hierarchical organizational structures are being flattened, requiring leaders to operate effectively in matrix organizations or "boundaryless" units. This requires a shift to a whole new way of leading people, influencing without direct authority, and developing energized, productive people who are tapped into their own power.
   

The bottom line?

Organizations which can align their strategic direction to respond to the changing market realities AND the trends above, and then create a culture where leadership development is a strategic lever for change will be the winners in the important battle for brains and experience.

At Inner Power International, our consulting practice offers an integrated approach to organizational performance, using leadership development as a driver of change.

Working as a strategic advisor to organizations of all sizes, Inner Power International helps businesses achieve the following results:

• Sharpen Strategic Focus and Strategic Plan: Strategic planning with IPI helps leadership teams to examine the current external and internal environments in which the organization operates, assess opportunities and challenges, envision where you want to be 3-5 years from now, focus on the important work, and get re-aligned around goals, roles and responsibilities to achieve long-term success. IPI uses a participative, visual facilitation approach that maps organizational challenges and opportunities on stimulating graphics to tap a group's knowledge, creativity and help you work collaboratively to achieve your goals. Key objectives of this process include:

o Focus team on its common purpose (vision and mission)
o Identify current and new organizational challenges and opportunities
o Identify long-term goals and specific actions to respond to opportunities and challenges
o Map out a detailed plan to take the organization from its current to desired position, including clear roles and accountabilities

How is the IPI Strategic Planning Process unique? We combine traditional organizational assessment methods (environmental scan, SWOT Analysis, etc) with powerful visual mapping techniques, to portray complex information panoramically. By integrating organizational information with graphics, we enable members of your team or organization to:

o Focus attention and stimulate participation.
o See in one place the complexity of the group's situation and identify options for action.
o Quickly achieve consensus on important issues by creating a venue where everyone contributes and can see that they have been heard.
o Visually display group creativity and knowledge to quickly gain align
o Enhance group memory by making memories visible.

IPI Strategic Planning typically begins with a strategic planning session, and continues with a consultative and coaching process that helps the organization anchor its action plan into reality over a period of six months.

• Lead Change: Today's business leaders must be capable of driving business performance in a complex and changing world. The more profound the change - the more it involves the core strategy, identity, and culture of the organization - the greater the need for senior leadership to be personally and consistently involved. Inner Power International works with your leadership team to design and implement organizational structure, roles, processes and leadership behaviors that can transform the business. Utilzing a model of change based on neuro-science, we also support you in managing the communication process throughout change. We are particularly skilled in helping you create and use leadership development programs as a key lever for change -- to build leaders' understanding of the competitive environment, shape their ability to respond to current business challenges, develop new mindsets and behaviors, and solve management and cultural problems.

• Develop and Retain Leaders -- To succeed in today's global marketplace, most organizations know they must forge a clear, compelling, appropriate business strategy and drive organizational change, so the business can respond to changing market realities. What many organizations fail to do, however, is identify and cultivate future leaders for their organizations. By combining the potential talent with both the access to and time for learning new skills through high-potential learning, an organization can consistently and cost-effectively develop its future leaders. And, by integrating appropriate Assessments as powerful tools for insight and development on the individual, team and organizational level, leadership development programs can be used to drive cultural change.

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At Inner Power International,we see a world where authentic leadership and clear communication across differences are the norm, not fear. A world where more and more people understand global cultural differences and are acting out of integrity, trust and respect. Our company is based in Hawaii and specializes in personal and organizational transformation and sustainability - helping leaders, teams and organizations master the process of change, often across cultural lines, and sustain peak performance and leadership impact over time. We provide Leadership Development Support in Hawaii as well as Executive Coaching.