Leadership Pipeline, 3rd Edition

8Strategies for Implementing the Leadership Pipeline Model

Implementing the Leadership Pipeline framework is usually not that challenging. The reason for this is that you already have a leadership pipeline! You have leaders‐of‐others, leaders‐of‐leaders, and so forth. In principle, you do not “implement” the Leadership Pipeline model per se in the organization. You apply the Leadership Pipeline model to describe already existing leadership roles within your organization. This description is what we call a Leadership Portrait.

From an implementation perspective you then also need to consider the following:

• Whether you should start with a partial implementation, or if you should immediately go for a full organizational implementation
• How to situate the Leadership Pipeline framework into your existing structures and models

After introducing the Leadership Portrait, we address these questions; at the end of the chapter and provide specific tips for effective implementation.

Designing Leadership Portraits

In Chapters 3 through 7, we outlined the job to be done and the required work values, time application, and skills for the different leadership roles. Combining these two elements gives us what we call the Leadership Portrait. In Figures 8.1 and 8.2 we've illustrated the Leadership Portrait for leaders‐of‐others.

In Chapter 2, we outlined what business problems you can solve with the Leadership Pipeline model and what results you can achieve. In order to harvest all the benefits ...