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The Business Case for Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

An article in McKinsey Quarterly accused U.S. companies of lavishing $14 billion per year on programs to nurture their leaders while seeing little in return. The Wall Street Journal ran an article a few years ago titled “So Much Training, So Little to Show for It.” The irony is the need for better leaders continues to grow.

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Corporate Leadership – Part I – Do Companies Have the Talent They Need for the Future?

Jigsaw Interactive

According to DDI, the percentage of HR managers who are currently confident about their organization’s bench strength has reached a ten-year low of just 11%. Don’t miss the next article in this series, focusing on how COVID is impacting corporate leadership in the United States.

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Stepping Up to the ROI Challenge

CLO Magazine

In his 2017 Chief Learning Officer article, “The Business Case for Leadership Development,” William C. Byham, founder and CEO of Development Dimensions International, notes the following: “An article in McKinsey Quarterly accused U.S. Phillips is president and CEO of the ROI Institute. at $50 billion.

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How to Develop Leadership Competencies in Your Millennials

Avilar

A study from leadership development firm DDI confirms that Millennials are ambitious and eager to lead if they find a company and role they value. The DDI study also explored which skills were most valuable for leaders moving from first-level to top leadership roles. Are they ready? Current CEOs and Millennials have different opinions.

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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. 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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Dive In

CLO Magazine

According to The Conference Board’s “The Business Value of Leadership Development” report, “One of the most influential internal engines to drive change is a leadership development program that sets out to nurture management talent that is entrepreneurial, enterprisewide and globally recruited.”. The Simulation Solution.

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Top 4 soft skills employees are developing in VR

STRIVR

Josh Bersin in a recent article casts doubt on “reskilling” the workforce if there isn’t a strategic and targeted approach to build the right skills. We need to take these ‘power skills’ seriously, and build experiential programs that start at the top.” Bottom line is simple. Josh Bersin, global L&D analyst.

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