Cultivate The Vital Leadership Talent Inside Your Organization
2015-11-03 Abdi Jama
Cultivate The Vital Leadership Talent Inside Your Organization
Talent is like a truffle. Finding where truffles grow is arduous and once a possible area is identified - truffles grow underground without any visible indication of their location, apart from the distinctive truffle aroma - finding its exact whereabouts, is even more challenging. Due to this concealment, truffles can’t be collected like mushrooms but have to be searched for, much like trying to find buried treasure, usually with the help of animals with better smelling capabilities than humans.
But the good news is that, “truffles can be cultivated. As early as 1808, there were successful attempts to cultivate truffles, known in French as trufficulture. People had long observed that truffles were growing among the roots of certain trees, and in 1808, Joseph Talon, from Apt in southern France, had the idea of transplanting some seedlings that he’d collected at the foot of oak trees known to host truffles in their root system.”
“The experiment was successful: years later, truffles were found in the soil around the newly grown oak trees. In 1847, Auguste Rousseau of Carpentras planted 7 hectares of oak trees (also from acorns found on the soil around truffle-producing oak trees), and he subsequently obtained large harvests of truffles. He received a prize at the 1855 World’s Fair in Paris.”
Leadership talent has the same rareness and difficulty to find as truffles. But now with the advance of the leadership development know-how, especially coaching competencies, it is possible to cultivate talented leaders inside organizations through deliberate training and coaching programs.
Eighty percent of the truffles now produced in France come from specially planted truffle groves; and while some people may be born with better potential for leadership talent, today an increasingly higher percentage of leaders are grown and cultivated like truffles in France and Italy.
Coaching programs are the soil and cultivating mechanisms of the leadership talent growing inside organizations.
And any competitive organization’s challenge is to unleash the creativity of its individual leaders, combine it and convert it into a collective organizational genius. At Pertec Consulting, we have scientifically proven leadership development concepts, tools and coaching methodologies to help organizations with that process of cultivating, unleashing and combining the collective genius for achieving and maintaining sustainable innovation and growth.
Finally, if framers can’t find or grow truffles anymore, we can still survive, but without leadership talent, our societies can’t survive. Hence, a very relevant question here, is: are we intelligently cultivating talented leaders in our organizations?
References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle
Abdi Jama
abdi.jama@pertec.fi
+ 358 45 1328303
Senior Management Consultant
Cultivate The Vital Leadership Talent Inside Your Organization
Talent is like a truffle. Finding where truffles grow is arduous and once a possible area is identified - truffles grow underground without any visible indication of their location, apart from the distinctive truffle aroma - finding its exact whereabouts, is even more challenging. Due to this concealment, truffles can’t be collected like mushrooms but have to be searched for, much like trying to find buried treasure, usually with the help of animals with better smelling capabilities than humans.
But the good news is that, “truffles can be cultivated. As early as 1808, there were successful attempts to cultivate truffles, known in French as trufficulture. People had long observed that truffles were growing among the roots of certain trees, and in 1808, Joseph Talon, from Apt in southern France, had the idea of transplanting some seedlings that he’d collected at the foot of oak trees known to host truffles in their root system.”
“The experiment was successful: years later, truffles were found in the soil around the newly grown oak trees. In 1847, Auguste Rousseau of Carpentras planted 7 hectares of oak trees (also from acorns found on the soil around truffle-producing oak trees), and he subsequently obtained large harvests of truffles. He received a prize at the 1855 World’s Fair in Paris.”
Leadership talent has the same rareness and difficulty to find as truffles. But now with the advance of the leadership development know-how, especially coaching competencies, it is possible to cultivate talented leaders inside organizations through deliberate training and coaching programs.
Eighty percent of the truffles now produced in France come from specially planted truffle groves; and while some people may be born with better potential for leadership talent, today an increasingly higher percentage of leaders are grown and cultivated like truffles in France and Italy.
Coaching programs are the soil and cultivating mechanisms of the leadership talent growing inside organizations.
And any competitive organization’s challenge is to unleash the creativity of its individual leaders, combine it and convert it into a collective organizational genius. At Pertec Consulting, we have scientifically proven leadership development concepts, tools and coaching methodologies to help organizations with that process of cultivating, unleashing and combining the collective genius for achieving and maintaining sustainable innovation and growth.
Finally, if framers can’t find or grow truffles anymore, we can still survive, but without leadership talent, our societies can’t survive. Hence, a very relevant question here, is: are we intelligently cultivating talented leaders in our organizations?
References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle
Abdi Jama
abdi.jama@pertec.fi
+ 358 45 1328303
Senior Management Consultant