Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about recruiting analytics to feed your leadership pipeline, why companies are appointing more outsider CEOs, the leadership development crisis, and how HR can improve your leadership development.
From Kate Donovan: Advanced Recruiting Analytics: Creating Competitive Advantage in a Talent Economy
“Despite interest in big data and the increasing sophistication of analytics, very few companies use insight-oriented measurement in the recruiting function.”
From the Economist: The outside track
“Why companies are appointing more outsiders as CEOs.”
From Sara Canaday: Shedding Light on Our Leadership Development Crisis
“Here’s the very-expensive problem. According to DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast, organizations worldwide spend $50 billion per year on professional development, but only 37% of leaders describe their development programs as ‘effective.’ For the record, that low approval rating isn’t a fluke; it’s been flat for seven years. I’d say that qualifies as a crisis.”
From Matt Stratz: If You Need Better Leaders, Who You Gonna Call? HR.
“Good leaders are hard to come by. Almost half of the companies that participated in the Workplace Trends’ Global Workforce Leadership Survey in February and March 2015 chose leadership as the hardest skill to find in employees. What’s more, among the 1,000 employee participants, only 36 percent called leadership a strength in their organizations.”
