How's the leadership in your company? Here's 5 key leadership approaches of top companies:

1. Assessment: When it comes to building leaders, they assess the whole leader early in their careers. This includes evaluating leaders’ experiences, competencies, values, and organizational ?t. This helps organizations understand the unique needs of their talent pipeline to fuel the right development solutions that move people forward faster.
2. Awareness: They have leaders who demonstrate tremendous self-awareness by understanding their personal strengths and weaknesses and using this information to become more effective leaders.
3. Resilience: They build resilience in their leaders by creating inclusive cultures where multiple perspectives and ideas are expected and fostered to help the organization meet continued business challenges.
4. Engaging Leadership: They focus on identifying and building engaging leaders who are stabilizers, demonstrate versatility, and stay connected to people and events inside and outside their organization.
5. Sustainability: They focus on building talent programs nimble enough to respond quickly to the market demands, yet sustainable to deliver superior business outcomes.

Information gleaned from Aaron Olson and Keith Simerson