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There’s an Alternative to Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

This From the Vault article was originally published in July 2016 on CLOmedia.com. Worse, most leadership development programs turn out to be ineffective and expensive. These programs provide little focus on the social, interpersonal and strategic aspects of leadership, and what’s learned is often difficult to apply.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

(This article was initially posted on the Hospitality eResources blog on February 7, 2017.). This emphasis on formal training is a barrier to learning and change. In a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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Old habits die hard, but good leaders can change

CLO Magazine

This is true for leadership habits, too. This is a hugely valuable leadership habit, since the most important ideas that companies must act upon often exist at the bottom or the middle of an organization, not at the top. Innovative action: learning through experimentation. In fact, that isn’t the case.

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The Benefits of Creating a Leadership Legacy

CLO Magazine

” Now, consider this question in an organizational context: If a leader walks out of the office each night, each year, and at the end of a brilliant career has compiled a record of heroic successes, yet leaves no long-term impact on others, did leadership occur? As the question implies, legacy is a crucial component of leadership.

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Invest in Your People Even with a Small Learning Budget

CLO Magazine

Whether it’s a nonprofit, start-up, small business or a large enterprise, no organization can afford to skip on learning and development for its people. In a March Forbes article , leadership development professional Rebecca Zucker offered 10 ways companies can develop people with little to no learning and development budget.

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Keeping Talent Development Current: A Moving Target

CLO Magazine

I’m of the opinion that leadership values are constant laws, but how those get manifested and how we learn and grow changes by the minute. A Learning Organization. Similarly, Tess Taylor stated in an HRDive article , “Learning programs need to adapt to become more experiential, urgent and convergent with work realities.”.

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Why You Should Encourage Leaders to Play Games

CLO Magazine

We should use them at companies too, including for leadership development. Many companies are experiencing significant leadership gaps and an insufficient leadership pipeline, primarily due to the increasing pace of change in the global economy. So, why don’t more companies use games for leadership development?

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