Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover it to find the very best  posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about three ways to elevate leadership development, spending on training for senior leaders, women’s leadership development, and why you should own your own professional development.
From Bravetta Hassell: 3 Ways to Elevate Leadership Development
“Learning leaders needn’t feel wedded to traditional leadership development solutions to make a lasting impact on high potential talent. For female partners and directors at Deloitte Consulting, LLP, for example, a trip to a battlefield – pastureland, history and a lot of walking included – offered quite an education.”
From Victor Lipman: Why Do We Spend So Much Developing Senior Leaders and So Little Training New Managers?
“During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. It was OK — extremely insightful at times, moderately interesting at others, but it often kept me away from the demands of everyday management. And as I neared the end of my corporate days, I realized I’d received much more management training in the last five years than I did in the first 20 years — when I really needed it — combined.”
From IEDP Knowledge: Women’s Leadership Development at the Fortune 500
“With many complex forces bearing in on the leadership development space, Smith College Executive Education recently conducted a survey of senior L&D executives from Fortune 500 companies, to assess the current state and emerging trends in leadership development, with an aim to improve the effectiveness of practices for both enterprise-wide and women only talent development initiatives.”
From Joel Trammell: We Need Better Leaders: Own Your Professional Development
“I would venture to say the need for leadership training is greater than ever, and that people need to take responsibility for their own professional development earlier in their careers. We cannot afford for them not to in today’s business climate. Here’s why.”
Thanks to Smartbrief on Leadership for pointing me to this story.
