Description: This week, we shine a spotlight on the up-and-coming innovators who are reshaping industries, communities, and society as a whole. Listeners will gain insight into the challenges and opportunities faced by emerging leaders, and learn what organizations can do to leverage their skills, passions, and values to create a positive impact.
With such a competitive job market, along with changing workforce demographics and developing business needs, organizations are looking within and identifying emerging leaders to play a vital role. By investing in developing emerging leaders, organizations can proactively address talent shortages, build a pipeline of capable leaders, and position themselves for success.
In this episode, we will share results from a recent MRA Hot Topic Survey on emerging leaders and you will be able to use that data to identify the emerging leaders in your organization.
Resources:
Hot Topic Survey: Emerging Leaders 
Emerging Leader Roundtable 
MRA Membership 
About MRA 
Let's Connect:
Guest Bio - Courtney Lamers 
Guest LinkedIn Profile - Courtney Lamers 
Host Bio - Sophie Boler 
Host LinkedIn Profile - Sophie Boler 
Transcript:
Transcripts are computer generated -- not 100% accurate word-for-word.
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:21:03
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Hello everybody and welcome to 30 minute Thrive, your go to podcast for anything and everything H.R. powered by MRA, the Management Association looking to stay on top of the ever changing world of HRA. MRA has got you covered. We'll be the first to tell you what's hot and what's not. I'm your host, Sophie Muller, and we are so glad you're here.
00:00:21:04 - 00:00:42:13
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Now it's time to thrive. In this episode, we're going to be sharing results from a recent MRA Hot Topic survey on emerging leaders. So you will be able to identify your emerging leaders in your organization. Speaking of success today, we're joined with one of Emory's emerging leaders to talk about these survey results and get her perspective on the topic.
00:00:42:15 - 00:01:00:11
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So hi and welcome back to the podcast, Courtney. Thank you. I'm excited to be here. You know, we've talked a lot with companies recently about emerging leaders. So I think the timing with the Hot Topics survey was perfect. And, you know, it's really an exciting topic and it's fun to hear all the cool things that companies are doing with their emerging leaders.
00:01:00:11 - 00:01:31:16
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So excited to share that with you today, for sure. Well, let's first start out by talking about what is an emerging leader. I was joking before, but I do love this question because I think the definition of an emerging leader really depends on your organization and what your goal is with the Emerging leader program. There is not a one size fits all, and I share a couple of examples, and one of those is there is one company that uses their emerging leader program to help develop women in their organization.
00:01:31:17 - 00:02:01:21
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So it's a primarily a male dominated organization. A lot of their leadership is male dominated, and so they're putting together an emerging leader program to help women grow their leadership skills and develop that way. So I do share that as an example, as emerging leaders can be whatever you define it as. But I I'll say for Emory's perspective, we've kind of defined it as an individual who is developing and demonstrating those leadership skills and aspire to grow to that next level of leadership.
00:02:01:22 - 00:02:22:16
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So I think that aspiration is key because not everybody wants to be a leader and that's perfectly fine. So I think, you know, as we talk about it today, I definitely encourage you to think about your organization, your goals, where you're at and where your company is headed and how emerging leaders apply to you. Yeah, I like how you said that it can differ from company to company in the example you shared.
00:02:22:16 - 00:02:53:16
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That was cool. So accordin