<p>“The demand for leadership training is stronger now”, Harkins said while announcing at the launch of Linkage India unit here.</p>.<p>So far, company leaders had been trained to handle growth and accelerated growth.<br /><br /> However, now there is a demand for leaders who could effectively handle a downturn and communicate changes of the companies policies in terms of of freezing of hikes, promotions and other financial measures to the employees, said Linkage India CEO Romi Malhotra.</p>.<p>While earlier leadership was focused on taking growth to the next level, now the demand is to ensure that a company is able to hold on to its current profit levels.<br /> All this requires leadership that has these additional capabilities.</p>.<p>Though admitting that budgets for training have been impacted, he said that this was pertaining to mid-level discretionary budgets for training. <br />Demand for top level leadership training had soared with companies realising that it needed men of quality at the helm of affairs during crisis. </p>
<p>“The demand for leadership training is stronger now”, Harkins said while announcing at the launch of Linkage India unit here.</p>.<p>So far, company leaders had been trained to handle growth and accelerated growth.<br /><br /> However, now there is a demand for leaders who could effectively handle a downturn and communicate changes of the companies policies in terms of of freezing of hikes, promotions and other financial measures to the employees, said Linkage India CEO Romi Malhotra.</p>.<p>While earlier leadership was focused on taking growth to the next level, now the demand is to ensure that a company is able to hold on to its current profit levels.<br /> All this requires leadership that has these additional capabilities.</p>.<p>Though admitting that budgets for training have been impacted, he said that this was pertaining to mid-level discretionary budgets for training. <br />Demand for top level leadership training had soared with companies realising that it needed men of quality at the helm of affairs during crisis. </p>