Leadership development programs include classroom training that’s intended to deliver changed behavior. Far too often, nothing really changes back in “the real world.” In their Smartbrief article, “The “Dirty Fish Tank’ training model and the modern method for developing leaders,” Craig Ross, Angie Paccione and Victoria Roberts, analyze why. Here’s the golden kernel. “The standard […]

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 leadership development is stuck in the Dark Ages,  improving leadership development, acquiring a […]

Leadership development lessons abound in Raffaella Sadun’s HBR article, “Google’s Secret Formula for Management? Doing the Basics Well.” Here’s the golden kernel. “Google has opened its trove of management processes to one and all, for free. It might not feel that surprising — after all, Google has created plenty of free tools for the world […]

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  posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts on improving training, developing a change-leader mindset, and how to improve leadership development. From Kevin Eikenberry: New […]

Leadership development programs depend on training, but that simple phrase can lead us astray. I realized that recently when I read the following in Kevin Eikenberry’s article: “New Training Strategies for a New Day.” “I was asked to write about “new training strategies for today’s workforce,” I agreed to do so and hence the title […]

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 agile leadership, culture, learning for leadership development and training the way people want to […]

People loved to work for John. He was a leadership development model and one of the best bosses I ever studied. Younger workers loved working for him because he was a veritable leadership development machine. He gave people lots of freedom, helped them correct mistakes, and develop skills they could use in their next job. […]

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 on leadership development and a love of learning, getting buy-in for leadership development training, and […]

The title of an HBR article by Lauren A. Keating, Peter A. Heslin and Susan J. Ashford seems to be stating the obvious: “Good Leaders Are Good Learners.” Everybody knows that, right? The opening paragraph doesn’t do anything to contradict that impression. “Although organizations spend more than $24 billion annually on leadership development, many leaders […]

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 on leadership development and training, coaching, the 2020 workplace, and getting started with analytics. From […]