Your competitors can't catch up with you because their Leadership Machine doesn't work that well. With the Leadership Machine in place, you seize the future." says Lombardo and Eichinger.

The machine is your "change" agent. The machine is powered by 67 competencies, 19 career stealers and stoppers and 7 global focus competencies.

Consider Josh, he is a perfect Tech support employee in the IT department. Josh is bright, a master of technical skills, and a team player. Josh has all the right stuff. However; other equally bright technical people eager to grow and are able to replace Josh for less money are being hired. Now they need someone to manage all the new employees that have been added to the department. Now Josh has been promoted to manager of the IT department and the job changes. His new job demands strategic and creative thinking... Add to that managing people. A lot to learn and fast. Where does he go to get those skills?

"Many new organizations (dot coms) ,for example, buy experience by hiring coaches and bringing in seasoned pros to lead young people along more quickly. This is a good thing-as long as it isn't used as a substitute for experience and as long as it plays its proper role as a piece of development."

Meaning that the executives of the IT department need Josh to have the competencies he needs to be a good manager now, not later. So they hire a career coach to help him develop and even realize what competencies he needs to succeed in his new position so that his department prospers.

That is where T. and Toast fits into your business model. Our company is designed to implement a competency model culture..

In the Leadership Machine, Lombardo and Eichinger offer a solution to help men and women make the jump to deal with whatever change occurs in careers or lifetimes. They emphasize that developing future leaders requires us to focus on what stays constant or those fundamentals that don't change much at all. Identifying those fundamentals that drive successful careers is no easy task. We all want the magic potion, or the silver bullet. What are those skills that matter the most? Since 1994, the gurus began collecting data from over 6000 companies in 14 different countries. What they found all point to the 67 research based Competencies related to high performance. They also were able to determine which of those 67 were critical depending on job demands.

In their book, The Leadership Machine they identify those core competencies needed to cover an entire empire. It is a must read for executives, managers and all HR personnel.

In the Leadership Machine reveals leaders that:

Are able to deal with uncertainty

Are creative,

Are good at planning,

Are able to motivate others

Have much better chance of succeeding.

The bad News, is that "most people are consistently not good at these things"

 

Lombardo, M., & Eichinger, R. (2008). The Leadership Machine: The Change Vaccine: What Effective Leadership Looks Like, 1-17.