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 mentoring as a two-way street, leadership development for NextGen leaders, four keys to organizing for successful leadership development, and how to scale personalized learning.
From Sarah Fister Gale: Mentoring Is a Two-Way Street at Ford
“While many companies have mentoring programs, Ford takes a different approach than most, said Gale Halsey, CLO and director learning and organization development at Ford headquarters. Rather than the traditional model, where elder experts guide the next generation of employees as they find their footing, Ford views mentoring as a two-way opportunity. ‘Reverse mentoring can be a very powerful learning experience,’ Halsey said.”
From Sattar Bawany: NextGen Leaders For A VUCA World: Transforming future leaders for success
“A company’s leadership pipeline is expected to deliver its ‘next generation’ of leaders who are capable of leading now. The payoff is a supply of leadership talent that simultaneously achieves targets, strengthens and protects ethical reputation, and navigates transformational change in pursuit of a bright, competitive future. Because customers’ changing requirements are so significant, and customer focus is a ‘hot topic’ for executive development leaders, investing an appropriate amount of time, energy, and other resources to develop the capabilities of high potential leaders in these areas will be very important. Mentoring, feedback and coaching, and training programs are all potentially valuable ways to address this need.”
From thoughtLEADERS, LLC: 4 Keys to Organizing for Successful Leadership Development
“Successful leadership development must be personal, business-relevant, comprehensive and regular. Is your leadership development program organized for success?”
From Greg Rawson, Jimmy Sarakatsannis, and Doug Scott: How to scale personalized learning
“One promising way to improve outcomes is to offer personalized learning, a teaching approach aimed at addressing the individual educational needs of students. Research into personalized learning first emerged in 1984 when the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom challenged the academic community to replicate, at scale, the effectiveness of one-to-one or small-group tutoring. Bloom found that students who received personalized instruction outperformed 98 percent of those who did not.”
