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Stepping Up to the ROI Challenge

CLO Magazine

This was followed by Byham’s CLO article, “The Business Case for Leadership Development,” which showed how leadership development connects to major organizational measures. Even more important is how the change in leader behavior in 43 companies affected important business metrics.

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2019: The Year of Learning and Development

CLO Magazine

That learning and performance are two sides of the same coin.”. DDI, for example, is testing a VR course on diversity, where participants in a meeting experience common diversity-related biases, like being excluded from the discussion, having their ideas stolen and not being allowed to voice an opinion.

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The Business Case for Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

The considerable need for leadership development but low expectation of a documented return on it presents a quandary for CLOs who understand how critical developing their organizations’ leaders is. Even more important is how the change in leader behavior in 43 companies affected important business metrics (Figure 1).

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The Truth About Leadership Skill Gaps

CLO Magazine

The study, “High Resolution Leadership,” analyzed which competencies most closely associate with organizational growth and profit to find out whether organizations that invest in leadership development show better bottom-line financial performance than their competitors. Rich Wellins is senior vice president at DDI.

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Dive In

CLO Magazine

estimated that leadership strength explained 80 percent of its sustainable performance. The Center for Creative Leadership reported that if done correctly, leadership development creates competitive advantage by driving strategy execution, navigating change, improving financial performance and retaining talent. McKinsey & Co.

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Who’s Leading Innovation?

CLO Magazine

When they don’t, talent management consultant Development Dimensions International’s (DDI) “Creating the Conditions for Sustainable Innovation” survey shows a different picture. For this research, DDI, in partnership with LUMA Institute, surveyed 513 leaders and 514 non-leaders in the U.S.

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Sink or Swim: Setting First-time Leaders Up for Success

CLO Magazine

In other words, they were promoted into leadership because they were high-performing individual contributors. Never mind that the skills that often enable an individual contributor to perform at a high level typically are not the same ones that will make for an effective leader. Figure 1 identifies 10 such behaviors.

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