Why should you care about growing leaders? If you're stuck there, then ask yourself the next question: what is your organization capable of? Leaders are the indispensible levers to move the world, and leaders make sure your organization is doing the right things. The stakes are really high, and Mark and Randy explain exactly what you could see if you take this to heart and truly bet on leadership.

Many leaders haven't seen a development plan outside of perhaps a performance plan. So what should an individual leadership development plan look like? While there's not a perfect template, there are some basics that should be at the center of developing a plan.

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Some organizations have too few leaders. Others might have too many! Can you really have too many leaders? Like a lot of questions Mark and Randy answer...it just depends. Find out what that means on today's episode.

If you're a leader or business owner who "doesn't have time" to focus on growing more leaders, you're not alone—but you don't have to stay there. The truth is you may be caught in quicksand—an area of your business you're stuck in that sucks up all of your time and energy. Mark and Randy have some ways to get unstuck.

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With all of this talk about leadership development programs, there are some natural questions that arise when we enter this territory. This week Mark and Randy are answering some of the big ones, starting with why so many organizations have a shortage of leaders.

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The last step in betting on leadership is one that you'll never stop doing: repeat and reinvent. You'll repeat the first few steps over and over again, making tweaks and revisions as you go. If you want to become a high performance organization, this will be your rhythm to get better at leadership.

Evaluation is all about one thing: helping your leaders improve. But it's not as simple as a "how are you doing" check-in. You need specific behavioral examples that line up with your point-of-view on leadership. That way, you can help a leader grow in either performance or their own leadership. Mark and Randy expand on this and more on today's episode.

There's one caveat to training your leaders: you have to define what leadership is, establish your goals, and build your scorecard first. Otherwise, you'll wind up with "random acts of training" and will get little to no traction. Mark and Randy discuss how to effectively train leaders as the next step in the process of betting on leadership and moving toward being a high performance organization.

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