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 developing leaders in context, leadership development outside the box, fixing the top workforce development mistakes, and conscious competence.
From Jim Aggen and Noah Rabinowitz: Strategy Activation: Develop your leaders in context
“Leadership development is a potent way to implement new strategy and even transform culture. Steeping development in the real-world context of the business yields highly motivated people who are positioned to lead by example.”
From Harold Jarche: L&D outside the box
“Harold Jarche issues a challenge to L&D professionals in an environment where getting the work done is more important than learning anything new.”
From Susan Galer: Fixing the Top 3 Workforce Development Mistakes
“According to Oxford Economics research, less than one-third of surveyed companies worldwide have a strategic enterprise-wide vision for the workforce they want to create. Although growth expectations may be high, many organizations are missing a crucial piece of the puzzle, namely a plan to attract and engage the top talent they need to achieve expansion goals. Based on this report’s findings, including input from Human Resources (HR) industry experts, these are the top three development mistakes companies are making and how to fix them.”
From Ed Batista: Conscious Competence in Practice
“Last year I wrote about the Conscious Competence model, first formulated by Martin Broadwell in the late 1960s. I find it very helpful when thinking about developing new skills in any type of experiential learning or professional development process, and yesterday I had the chance to use it in an exercise with some of my MBA students at Stanford. The model suggests that we typically cycle through four different phases as A) our competence in a given discipline and B) our consciousness (i.e. our in-the-moment self-awareness) change over time.”
