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2019: The Year of Learning and Development

CLO Magazine

Also Read the 2018 Training Provider Sector Report: Your Training Program Is Not Enough. Also Read the 2017 Training Provider Sector Report: Learning & Development Today is Microsized, Personalized and Really, Really Short. It’s incredibly powerful,” said DDI CEO Tacy Byham.

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Stepping Up to the ROI Challenge

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 it is to develop their organizations’ leaders. Even in large organizations, leadership providers are stepping up to this challenge. But that seems to be changing.

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

CLO Magazine

This goes beyond providing leadership development, though that certainly is important. Unfortunately, the majority of organizations do not provide the support required to enable leaders to successfully transition into a first-time leadership position. HR needs to provide the tools and supportive culture to make this happen.

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Searching for candidates can be like digging for buried treasure

CLO Magazine

A 2014-2015 Global Leadership Forecast by The Conference Board and DDI revealed that 85 percent of executives are not confident in their leadership pipelines. First, they provide exposure and chances to practice leadership skills and behaviors typically not required in the day jobs of people in individual contributor roles.

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We Must Address the Leadership Strategy Mortality Rate

CLO Magazine

Leadership readiness is low and declining, according to two consecutive Global Leadership Forecast studies from DDI — 2011 and 2015. Editor’s note: Author works for DDI.] Most strategies define success criteria, find people with potential, assess leadership capability accurately, provide learning experiences, etc.

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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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Dive In

CLO Magazine

DDI supported this when it said only 40 percent of leaders report that their leadership quality is high, and only 15 percent have a strong leadership bench. In the airline industry, simulations are an effective way for pilots to learn from virtual experiences that would be costly and difficult or dangerous to provide in the real world.