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 training, coaching, self-development, and succession planning. Here are the details.
From Richard Benson-Armer, Silke-Susann Otto, and Nick van Dam: Do your training efforts drive performance?
“Building organizational capabilities is a top strategic priority, but an inability to measure the impact is a growing concern among executives we surveyed.”
From Allen Moore and Jan Rybeck: Coaching for the 21st century
“As the speed, uncertainty, and complexity of global markets intensify, leaders must learn to navigate this fast-moving landscape—by keeping their businesses on track amid adaptive change. In such challenging and opportune times, experienced coaches are of tremendous support to these executives; however, coaches also must adapt in parallel with business evolution, expanding their tool kits to include real-time, technology-enabled coaching to global locations, as well as expanding methodologies to address not only individuals but also systems and teams.”
From Herminia Ibarra: The Most Productive Way to Develop as a Leader
Everybody loves self-improvement. We want to get smarter, network better, be connected, balance our lives, and so on. That’s why we’re such avid consumers of ‘top 10’ lists of things to do to be a more effective, productive, promotable, mindful — you name it — leader. We read all the lists, but we have trouble sticking to the ‘easy steps’ because while we all want the benefits of change, we rarely ever want to do the hard work of change.”
From Karin Hurt: The 5 Biggest Succession Planning Mistakes
“Succession planning, done well, creates brilliant competitive advantage. Poorly executed, at best it’s a waste of time, and often creates serious havoc on long term performance.”
