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Need CEO leadership skills, fast? Hire an intern

Taariq Lewis: Many facets of leadership (Jan 30 2010) Career Management , CEO Leadership

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  1. Need CEO leadership skills, fast? Hire an intern

    Diane Garnick, Head Strategist at Invesco held a presentation at MIT Sloan.  Her most important slide that I thought very inspiring was her Slide on “Thinking Outside the Organizational Chart”.  In this slide, she gives a number of great ideas on how aspiring leaders should embrace and extend their leadership influence in the organization.

    My most favorite point: “One Year into the job, as for an intern.”  Need leadership and people management skills, but the company doesn’t have a budget to hire a staff under you, just yet?  Get an intern.  Here are her tips on how to execute successful intern acquisition:

    1. Write your proposal:  In your first six months into the job, you should know exactly what it takes to succeed in your role and in your organization.  Outline your workflow and make a plan on how an intern could augment your performance.  Think in 3 months, or quarterly, chunks what an intern should do for you and how that will positively impact your performance.  Identify all the logistics to interview and hire an intern for your job function.

    2. Build a Business Roadmap:  Provide sound, rational statements about the need for an intern.  Interns take up a lot of time.  They require guidance, management, and direction.  Put together sound reasoning how your time invested will pay-off at the end of the internship.  Also, keep in mind that hiring your intern should put you in position for an expanded leadership role.  Connect with HR to ensure that you get credit for success at the end of the internship.

    3. Interview carefully:  Interview plenty of students and hire someone with a different background than yourself.  For example, if you’re a big picture person, look for an intern who will compliment you with an acute attention to detail.  If you’re introverted, make sure your intern has extrovert skills that will add value to your goals.  Most interns don’t “know” what they want, except that they wish to work hard and be valuable.  Have the intern interviewee show you what they’ve done at school to highlight this desire.

    Hiring an intern is a great way to get noticed as a leader and manager in the organization.  It’s also great for the intern who has a chance to learn about business, gain new skills and a quality reference for a great job.  Every future CEO should get fast, cheap and low-risk management experience, with an intern.

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