Leadership confidence up for first time since 2003.

[Theresa M. Welbourne, Ph.D.]

The latest results from the leadership pulse (ongoing study of leaders I have been doing since 2003, go out to large, global sample of leaders every 2 months with short set of questions), shows that for the first time since 2003 leaders confidence in: their senior leadership teams, their firm's ability to executive on vision, that they have the right people and skills, and that they can change as needed all went up. But remember, these same areas have shown declining confidence since 2003.

This is at the same time that two items declined:

1. Confidence in the economy took a deep dive downward.
2. The surprising news is that confidence in their own personal leadership and management skills also went down.

In the highest performing firms in the sample, contrary to all prior trends, confidence in the leadership team was higher than confidence in themselves.

What do you make of this? What's happening with leaders?

I have my own theories, but I'd like to wait to hear from you first.

Go to: www.leadershippulse.com and www.energizeengage.com if you want to learn more.

[Theresa M. Welbourne, Ph.D.]

i have a global sample - i will look at the results across countries.. this is only the very first view of the data- i can say from client data that it makes lots of sense to me - based on what i'm seeing. just finished two non-USA studies and found similar findings..

[Vijay Kumar Shrotryia]

Dear Theresa:
Good to know your findings. HOwever it requires global validation and may be at different levels and geographical locations we could collaborate on finding the situation more broadly.
At the outset I may also agree on 'more confidence on Teams than Individuals. But better to test it across..

good work

wishes
vijay