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Demystifying Why Leadership Development Often Fails

PDG

Not Recognizing the Knowing-Doing Gap Let’s face it: a lot of new leader readiness programs don’t do enough to prepare leaders for the realities of the job. The “knowing-doing gap” refers to the disparity between what individuals know they should do and what they actually do in practice.

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Supercharge your learning programs with follow-up coaching

CLO Magazine

I realized that what bothered me most was that while my books were widely read and our learning and development programs were used around the world, people were not following through on the concepts and using them consistently in their day-to-day work. Bridging the knowing-doing gap.

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Learning Vs. Performance -- The Dichotomy

ID Reflections

Those deviating from set processes wasted valuable time – their own and others – and were speedily brought to book. In this context, a discussion with a friend led me to the video on Knowing-Doing Gap by Bob Proctor. Some further research into the Knowing-Doing Gap led me to his website: [link].

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Bliss

Jay Cross

For that, I’ll be interviewing people, scouring the web, and digging through books to come up with what managers and professionals need to do differently to prosper in today’s business world. Which books will be good catalysts to my thinking? My only work will be the 21C Leadership Project.

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Re-imagining the Book

Jay Cross

Several months ago I decided to write a book about working smarter for managers and executives. I thought I’d be able to do this by changing the voice of the Fieldbook. A friend of mine who has published numerous books sent the Fieldbook to his editor, a PhD English grad in India. And it ends up not being a book at all.

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The power of one

E-Learning Provocateur

However, you do have a sphere of influence. If Kofman’s work is a bit too self-helpy for you, let me rephrase it in edu-speak: Sometimes the ones most guilty of the knowing-doing gap are ourselves. As L&D professionals, we know most learning undertaken in the workplace is informal. Are you using it?

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The power of one

E-Learning Provocateur

However, you do have a sphere of influence. If Kofman’s work is a bit too self-helpy for you, let me rephrase it in edu-speak: Sometimes the ones most guilty of the knowing-doing gap are ourselves. As L&D professionals, we know most learning undertaken in the workplace is informal. Are you using it?