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 using 70:20:10 as a prescriptive standard, succession planning, the biggest challenge when leading “rising stars,” and creativity in leadership development.
From DDI World: 70:20:10 The Right Ratio… or So We All Thought (PDF)
“The most common piece of wisdom on how leaders learn is the 70:20:10 ratio—70 represents learning that occurs on the job; 20, learning from others; and 10, learning from formal development. This ratio originated in decades-old research that asked leaders to look backward at the retrospective value of learning types. It has evolved to something very different, however: a near-universal planning edict, looking forward to how leaders should seek and receive development. Even the ratio’s originators have stated publicly that they never intended it to be used as the prescriptive tool it has become.*”
From Sharlyn Lauby: Being Part Of the Succession Plan Isn’t An Entitlement
“Succession planning is just that…planning. And plans change regularly. For the same reason you should tell employees they’re a part of the succession plan, a company should review and update their plan on a regular basis.”
From SmartBrief on Leadership: What’s the biggest challenge you face when leading a “rising star”?
“SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 190,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each week in our e-newsletter.”
From Julie Winkle Giuloni: Creativity: It’s what’s missing from career development
“‘Creativity’ and ‘career development’ rarely come up in the same sentence. In fact, many organizations have inadvertently wrung a lot of creativity out of career development through the creation of complicated systems, processes, step-wise tools and forms. Yet what they’re discovering is, the more sophisticated the individual development planning process, the less creativity is actually allowed. As a result, many managers and employees are painting by numbers when it comes to career development. They do what’s expected of them. They complete the forms. They meet the deadlines. And they continue to complain about the lack of authentic career development in their organizations.”
