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How to Develop Leadership Competencies in Your Millennials

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What leadership competencies do Millennial managers need to develop to effectively lead our next-generation workforces? 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. labor force, making up more than one third of all workers.

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The Truth About Leadership Skill Gaps

CLO Magazine

That includes leadership skills. To help bring clarity to these skill shifts, Development Dimensions International in February of 2016 conducted a comprehensive analysis of assessment data from more than 15,000 leaders and candidates for five leadership levels from the front line to the C-suite. Getting Leader Skills on Track.

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Tips for Running Mentorship Programs for Women

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Women can especially benefit from mentoring as they seek to overcome traditional barriers to the leadership pipeline. According to a global DDI study , 67 percent of women rate mentorship as highly important in helping to advance and grow their careers. Skill development. Obstacles of informal mentoring for women.

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Free learning & development webinars for April 2022

Limestone Learning

PT: Mousify Your Instructional Design for MAGICal Results Writing training for Walt Disney Entertainment was fascinating: characters, parades, fireworks, leadership, finance, orientation and more. Join April King, Senior Consultant at DDI, in this interactive webinar to plan actionable steps to get ready for the future today.

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

CLO Magazine

Our organization, Development Dimensions International, has studied leadership transitions and found that the struggles of new leaders are both real and widespread. This goes beyond providing leadership development, though that certainly is important. There’s No Underestimating How Stressful the Transition Can Be.

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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.”. Impact Shortfall. McKinsey & Co.

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Competency-Based Learning: Why Talent Management Needs to Get on Board

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And we did – with Learning Tracks , our new Thinkzoom feature that focuses on competency-based learning. But before diving into that nitty-gritty, it would be helpful to understand why competencies (and learning tracks based on them) are so important. This past week we made some changes to our Thinkzoom platform.