I recently read a blog post by Irving Wladawsky-Berger titled “The Growing Value of Social Skills.” Here’s the opening paragraph. “I recently read a very interesting paper, The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market, by Harvard professor David Deming. Deming’s paper shows that over the past several decades, labor markets have been […]

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 strategic leadership development in 2016, playing it safe leadership development, figuring out why employee development […]

Leadership development and succession planning There are lots of reasons to promote your CEO from within and DDI’s Evan Sinar lays them out in a post titled: “‘Growing Your Own’ Leaders? Here’s How to Make it Fruitful.” “For many organizations, a ‘grow your own’ strategy—that is, filling most leader roles with capable internal candidates—is an […]

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 performance ranking, learning, creating a talent pipeline, and retaining your talent. From Bob Rogers: […]

Here’s a key paragraph from Darleen DeRosa’s post “3 Trends in Leadership Training and Development for 2016” on the 21st Century Leadership Insights blog. “In the coming year, we’ll continue to see companies adopting new, innovative forms of learning. Here are three leadership training and development trends to keep on your radar for 2016 and […]

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 finding the balance in business education, microlearning, retaining senior managers, and preventing burnout. From […]

There’s no shortage of articles about why leadership development programs fail. McKinsey thinks there are four common mistakes. Kotter claims that it’s weak foundations. The analysis seems sound, but they don’t get to the heart of the issue. Everyone agrees that leadership development is important No one ever says out loud that leadership development isn’t […]

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 Google’s onboarding, strategic supervisor training, ditching performance reviews, and the foundations of a succession […]

Triage was developed as a way to help medical staff deliver services more effectively by sorting injured people into three groups. One group would do well even if they didn’t get immediate care. Another group would do poorly, no matter what care they received. And a third group was made up of those who would […]

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 how employee learning impacts the organization, learning is everywhere, leadership coaching and invisible change, […]