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 the state of corporate training, effective leadership development, measuring workplace learning, and leadership development for generations X, Y, and Z.
From Darleen DeRosa: The State of Corporate Training: 7 Surprising Statistics
“Here are seven statistics that paint a more complete picture of how corporate training budgets break down, what training formats are most popular and how much organizations are willing to outsource.”
From Barry Stern: FALSE: All Leadership Development is Ineffective
“It’s become fashionable to characterize leadership training efforts as failures, with reputable data points and sources supporting this claim. In her 2012 book The End of Leadership, Barbara Kellerman talks about the failure of the ‘leadership industry.’ The Harvard Business Review referred to ‘The Great Training Robbery’ in a 2016 article assailing leadership training. And, in their 2017 Workplace Learning Report (a survey of 500 L&D professionals in the U.S. and Canada), LinkedIn Learning found that, while over half of L&D professionals surveyed say that developing managers and leaders is the #1 objective for their organization:”
From David Wentworth: What Are Top Businesses Doing To Measure Workplace Learning?
“As we talk more and more about new learning experiences and incorporating more informal and experiential learning into our efforts, we inevitably end up on the subject of measurement. Everyone gets excited talking about collaboration, games, simulations, virtual reality, etc.; but the excitement comes to a screeching halt once someone asks, ‘How are we going to measure that?’”
From Henrik Bresman and Vinika Rao: What Generations X, Y and Z Want From Leadership
“Managers should distribute leadership and make life more efficient for their employees.”
