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The Business Case for Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

Global CEOs identified improved leadership development practices as a top five human capital strategy, according to the “Global Leadership Forecast 2014-15,” conducted by The Conference Board and Development Dimensions International. Leadership development also helps leaders perform better as they transition into global roles.

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Stepping Up to the ROI Challenge

CLO Magazine

Globally, the amount is more than $500 billion. Wiseman Group’s global partners are trained and certified to offer courses in the Multipliers methodology, which connects programs to the business and helps calculate the financial ROI of those programs. Some estimates put the annual investment in leadership development in the U.S.

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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.”. 4 — new global competitors and No.

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

CLO Magazine

For a DDI study a few years ago, we asked more than 1,200 employees around the world what they thought about their managers. Wellins is senior vice president of Development Dimensions International and a global expert in leadership development. One additional notable thing about catalyst leaders is that there are too few of them.

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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. StandingOutW3, an e-learning solution provider led by CEO Stephen Kremple, the former vice president of global learning at Starbucks, offers great advice here.

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Free L&D webinars for March 2020

Limestone Learning

Global Leadership Consultant at DDI, you’ll learn ideas and practical tactics to build effective development experiences that will flex to the changing needs of your frontline managers and your organization. That's why CEOs’ primary concern is that the next generation of leaders aren’t ready to step up.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Xerox Learning, DDI, Forum Corporation, and hundreds of other “instructional systems companies” sprung up. Thousands upon thousands of trainers attended conferences to learn about new approaches like programmed instruction, behavior modification, roleplay, certification, CD-ROM, sensitivity training. The cards are still out.