A Better Approach to Leadership Development

Too often, organizations send managers to leadership development workshops, only to see them return to their desks and continue doing the same old thing. Lacking positive results, executives then cut the training as an uneccesary expense.

Harvard Business Review’s Ron Ashkenas presents a better approach to leadership development

…participants come to the program with a specific business challenge (either individually or as a team); build time into the program to create a plan for addressing that challenge based on the content that is presented; and then insist that managers execute against these plans after the program.

Being able to apply the content learned in the workshop to solve actual problems on managers’ desks produces immediate positive results. According to Mr. Ashkenas, this approached has for years been used successfully by GE, Honeywell, and Siemens. (RN)

How to Translate Training into Results | Harvard Business Review | Ron Ashkenas | 15 June 2010

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