Amy is a middle manager of a successful advertising firm. She has been identified as a future leader by the CEO and the Executive Management team.
She has been directed to attend a 5-day intensive leadership development program to kick-start her expanding career.
When she returns from the 5-day event, she is very keen and excited to start implementing some of the ideas that she has developed at the course, but her immediate manager (who is not a member of the Executive Management Team) thinks that he needs to control some of her enthusiasm and
continue to focus on her immediate job.
Questions:
1. How successful do you believe the leadership development program has been and why?
2. Why has her immediate manager decided not to fully encourage her enthusiasm following her return to work from the course?
3. What role should the CEO play in what is transpiring between Amy and her manager and why?