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Management Training or Leadership Development

Is It Training or Development?

When Human Resources took over leadership training, I didn’t immediately notice a change. In fact, I felt the leadership development department initially did a good job making the classes more specific to my job than the consultants they had hired in the past.

But over time, a shift occurred. Leadership development became more about how not to get the company in trouble and not about developing the leader. As a result, experienced leaders became ambivalent to training and younger leaders became HR processes experts. Continue Reading…

The Problem with Corporate Leadership Training

Corporate Leadership Training

Most corporate sponsored leadership training is ineffective. Why?

  1. Many consultants attempt to jam their round peg of a program into the square hole of an organization.
  2. Most training has a short half -life because there lacks accountability within the client organizations to actually implement the ideas generated at training events.
  3. Leadership training often focuses on what a leader needs to do to others versus what the leader needs to change in himself/herself.

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