Want to boost productivity in your business? Retaining your leadership talent can help you make great in manufacturing. This slideshare has advice for recognising, rewarding, investing in, and inspiring your talent.

1. RETAINING YOUR LEADERSHIP
TALENT
HOW TO RETAIN YOUR LEADERSHIP
TALENT TO BOOST PRODUCTIVITY

2. WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?
“A Complex, Largely Emotional
Process That Can Be Learned
through.....experience, observation,
understanding leadership models,
self-awareness”

3. THREE LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP
(John Adair)
Strategic
Leadership
•Vision
•Purpose
•Communication
•values
Team Leadership
Task
Team Individual
Operational
Leadership
•Energy
•Behaviour
•Structure
•Manager as coach
•Creating the work climate
John Adair
recognised three
levels of leadership:
team, operational
and strategic.
This tool is to help
develop a person's
leadership presence,
knowhow and skill,
depending on their
level of leadership
responsibility.

4. Setting Goals
Monitoring
Controlling
Efficiency
Strategic Thinking
Aligning
Visioning
Effectiveness
Inspiring
Innovating
Opening Doors
Building Alliances
Removing Blocks
Improving
Planning • Coaching
• Developing
• Mentoring
• Role model
DEVELOPING LEADERS & ENHANCING
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
MANAGING LEADING
“Doing
things right”
“Doing the
right thing”

5. RETAIN LEADERSHIP TALENT
Why retain and develop your existing
leadership talent?
• Improves productivity, increases performance
• Encourages a positive work environment,
engaged, motivated and happy workforce
• Reduces costs in recruitment
• Reduces time for new employees to embed
into the company

6. RECOGNISING AND
REWARDING LEADERSHIP
TALENT
• Give praise and performance feedback
either on an adhoc basis or in one to one
meetings
• Use performance development reviews and
appraisal process to provide structured
recognition
• Use reward and recognition events to
showcase your star performers and
encourage and inspire others
Reward
your ‘star
performers’

7. INVESTING IN LEADERSHIP TALENT
Invest in your people and they will
invest in you
•Explore leadership and management
training and professional development
•Implement pay, incentive or employee
benefit schemes
•Celebrate talent and showcase your
workforce
Explore our
professional
routes to
leadership
development

8. HOW CAN LEADERSHIP SKILLS BE
DEVELOPED?
Training events and
seminars
Mentoring
Job rotation
On the job
experience
E-learning
Action learning
sets
Guided learning
FACE TO FACE
ONE TO ONE
GROUP
ACTIVITY
REMOTE
PRACTICAL
Coaching

9. HOW TO RETAIN LEADERSHIP TALENT
• Recognise your existing talent
• Reward those who stand out
amongst the crowd
• Invest in your people and they’ll
invest back in you
• Inspire, motivate and encourage
others to develop
Improves performance, Increases productivity

10. MAKE GREAT IN MANUFACTURING
As one of the largest training organisations in the UK, we offer
leadership skills solutions that tackle the challenges you face.
From retaining and recruiting, to coaching and mentoring, people
management and strategic change and sustainability programmes,
we’ll ensure you have the expertise and skills you need to ‘make
great’ in the sector and be future fit for the digital revolution ahead.
#makegreat
Explore more guidance, tools and
support www.eef.org.uk/make-great