A deep dive into the evidence base for investing in leadership development and leadership training to optimize finanical perfomance, employee engagement and retention, and innovation successes.
It's tempting during periods of economic tightening to cancel investments in leadership training, pause existing leadership development programs, and postpone executive events and management meet-ups. Empirical research evidence suggests this reduced adapative capacity and discretionary effrots just when you need leaders to innovate, adapt, and transform their way out of disruption, uncertainty, and complexity.
Experiential leadership development is gaining in popularity as it promises deeper engagement, transformational outcomes and accelerated mastery at transformational leadership. But experiential programs can overwhelm, confuse, and waste precious time, energy, money, and the reputations of L&D/OD/HR professionals. Discover how to approach experiential leadership development to deilver on the promises and avoid the many risks.
Much of the investment in leadership development fails to deliver tangible business impact. At the same time, it is failing the very leaders it is trying to serve, support, and upgrade. This is down to how we approach leadership development and the long shadows of industrial-age education and assumptions about learning. Discover some of the major mistakes that lead to leadership development failure and how to avoid them.
Much of the investment in leadership development fails to deliver tangible business impact, let alone an outsized ROI. Discover 15 ways to revolutionize and rethink leadership development so that it forges future-fit leaders that can ensure their organization survives and thrives in the VUCA reality through the design and delivery of customized, creative, transformative, and experiential leadership development journeys.