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The Truth About Leadership Skill Gaps

CLO Magazine

Some skills — communication, coaching, execution — are always important and never go out of style. The study also conducted a profit analysis, focusing on net profit and return on assets, using assessment data from 2,077 senior-level executives from 44 organizations, about 47 per company. Rich Wellins is senior vice president at DDI.

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

CLO Magazine

Our organization, Development Dimensions International, has studied leadership transitions and found that the struggles of new leaders are both real and widespread. In DDI’s “Finding the First Rung” study, we asked 1,130 front-line leaders, “How did you become a leader?” They also need to examine their own motivations to lead.

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5 Ways to Crush the Forgetting Curve

CLO Magazine

Recently, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, Development Dimensions International developed a conceptual model to understand the plight of the modern learner and the mechanisms to successfully create impact (Editor’s note: One of the authors works for DDI). 5 Ways to Minimize Forgetting.

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Embracing long-term virtual team and leadership training

CLO Magazine

But a DDI study found that leaders rank virtual leadership as their weakest skill. Furthermore, a DDI study of more than 15,000 leaders showed that levels of leadership confidence are scarily low when it comes to critical skills. And now a lot more are working remotely. Embrace it.

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Free learning & development webinars for November 2021

Limestone Learning

Lee Smith, founder and CEO of SalesFuel, will share insights from his Amazon bestseller and share fresh data from his firm's latest Voice of the Buyer study of 1,330 B2B decision-makers. Development Dimensions International (DDI) has offered virtual classrooms for more than a decade and created many industry best practices.

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#MeToo in Mentorship

CLO Magazine

This consequence of #MeToo is occurring just as the value of mentoring women is clearer than ever: Our latest leadership re-search found that of the nearly 2,500 companies studied those with at least 30 percent women leaders — and at least 20 percent women senior leaders — have a major competitive edge.

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