How many rooms are in the House of Leadership?  There are at least six.

So what are those rooms?  Come on in.  Let’s list them by contrasting them.

Skills versus Characteristics:  Delegating is a leadership skill.  Candor, something we appreciate in all leaders, is a characteristic but it is not a skill.  Honesty - is that a skill?  Nope, characteristic.  Charisma - is that a skill?  Nope, characteristic.  Visioning?  Yep, you got it.  That’s a skill.

Tools versus Models.  Performance appraisals are tools for developing talent.  The leadership pipeline is a good model to understand how to develop leadership talent.  A poorly completed performance evaluation is a bad model for demonstrating what not to do in developing talent.  The House of Leadership is a model.

Values versus Insight.  Most organizations have a list of values (e.g. we learn from our customers, respect for people, etc.) that they expect leaders to demonstrate.  That’s different from leadership insight that helps leaders change their perspective about moving people and the organization forward to new results.  For example, many first-time or first-level leaders need to “overcome the buddy syndrome” - that’s an insight.

Six rooms.  Are there more?  Sure. 

Consider just one of your leaders - which room might they step into for further development?