Here are this past week's headlines in leadership development:  (1) Developing leaders to make better decisions and have better judgment: Some emerging science behind language skills and leveraging collective wisdom ;   (2) What does it take to shake the team at the top out of their risk-averse wait-and-see attitude, even when they know that inertia itself is risky, in order to inspire the requisite boldness so that they act ahead of the need, ahead of the competition—and before hardship or crisis makes action a necessity rather than a choice? ;  (3) Lessons from global industrial company: How putting leadership development ... Read More »

Here are this past week's headlines in leadership development:  (1) Trendwatching, episode 259: Motivation and manager's tools in the era of globalization, mobile/always-on work, self-directed careers. Do your leadership development programs really help managers lead individuals? ;   (2) Negotiators gain more concessions with cool threats than with heated words ;  (3) It's widely recognized that a company’s leadership, culture and core competencies can be important to its success. But another, often overlooked, critical source of differentiation is the company's beliefs. Do your leadership development programs help instill corporate beliefs? ;  Books: The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization ... Read More »

Here are this past week's headlines in leadership development:  (1) How can you connect your leadership development efforts to help promote effective attitudes about leading? Some thoughts and reflections, on an Inc article by Geoffrey James ;   (2) Executive training may not make a leader out of a follower, but it certainly can make a promising leader better. Is your leadership development effort helping? ;  (3) Helping leadership transitions through effective leadership development programs: a review of what is known about personality traits and their impact on perceptions of leadership ;  Books: Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders and Leverage Leadership ;  Webinars ... Read More »

Here are this past week's headlines in leadership development:  (1) A new approach for your leadership development programs? MIT Sloan Prof Gauthier's idea of relational intelligence, which encourages diversity and innovation by building relationships between different and even antagonistic entities ;   (2) Adaptive Leadership and Business Impact: BCG study shows how much impact this leadership development approach improves business performance ;  (3) Leading effectively with crowdsourcing: Prof Tom Davenport's latest article in this month's Harvard Business Review ;  Books: The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance and The Oxford Handbook of Business ... Read More »

At Ingersoll Rand, corporate executives have been gathering every year at their global leadership meeting for several years now. This group of company leaders gets together in person from all over the world to discuss strategy, plans, budget, etc.  It has been a productive process, but could be so much more. In this Leadership Development Executive Council session, we learned how Lisa Gary and her team at Ingersoll Rand recently changed this gathering from a typical executive meeting to a dynamic learning event for everyone involved.  Specifically, we learned… How they proposed the idea for this significant change and got ... Watch Video »

Here are this past week's headlines in leadership development:  (1) New tool from Booz & Co can be repurposed for your leadership development program to help identify numbers of direct reports ;   (2) Helping leaders direct innovation, from a London Business School article on engineering in a rapidly changing world ;  (3) Between 2008 and 2010, companies with more diverse top teams were also top financial performers. McKinsey research shows that's probably no coincidence ;  Books: Work and Quality of Life: Ethical Practices in Organizations and The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education ;  Webinars ; and ... Read More »

Here are this past week's headlines in leadership development:  (1) Do you need to develop leaders in IT differently? Some people think so ;   (2) Ross/Michigan professors discuss what it takes to lead today and how to best develop leaders ;  (3) Developing Leaders to Recognize and Manage Cultural Differences About Confrontation ;  Books: The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All and The Collaborative Organization: A Strategic Guide to Solving Your Internal Business Challenges Using Emerging Social and Collaborative Tools ;  Webinars ; and Conferences  Do you need to develop leaders in IT differently? Some people think so.In "IT Leadership ... Read More »

Here are this past week's headlines in leadership development:  (1) Discriminatory filings may signal that your leaders need skills to recognize and address discontent ;   (2) Can you measure trust? ;  (3) IESE research on "Marginalized Biculturals" as being good candidates for global leadership positions ;  (4) Deloitte research connects the market perception of the quality of your organization's leaders. Will this change how we develop leaders and leadership? ;  Books: Superpower! and The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process ;  Webinars ; and Conferences  Discriminatory filings may signal that your leaders need skills to recognize and address discontent ... Read More »

Here are this past week's headlines in leadership development:  (1) Adjusting processes and leadership practices to encourage innovation without smothering creativity ;  (2) Innovation as if-then arguments, or how to help leaders drive innovation ;  (3) If you want managers to listen and act responsively, ask their teams some questions  ;  Books:  The Little Black Book of Innovation and Implementing Strategic Change: Managing Processes and Interfaces to Develop a Highly Productive Organization ;  Webinars ; and  Conferences .  Adjusting processes and leadership practices to encourage innovation without smothering creativityInnovation isn't about structuring a process to lead to an outcome so much as it ... Read More »

It’s true. Our current leadership development methods have a reductionist approach and 20th Century industrialism stamped all over them. However, if our organizations are to be sustainable in a competitive, global economy, our leaders must break free of the chains of tradition. In this Leadership Development Executive Council session, we contemplated the future of leadership development, including elements such as: Target: Organization capability (vs. personal skills) Focus: Learning as a problem-solving method  Accelerators: Debate, synthesis, experimentation, monitored practice Environment: Opportunities to explore and do something original Practice: Adapting principles and theories to local context, and begin again when first ... Watch Video »

During this session, Ling Sian Tan from Capgemini explained the company’s Next Generation Learning (NGL) philosophy and how they have applied the NGL attitudes and principles to the design of their VP orientation program. See how one of the NGL attitudes – “Connect to Learn” – is driving the success of collaborative learning. She also reviewed fundamental principles that support the corporate attitude of “Connect to Learn”: Use the power of teams in connections Bring experience to create and co-create Connect with many in many ways Watch Video »

  "Knowledge is always in terms of concepts and can be passed on by means of words or other symbols. Understanding is not conceptual, and therefore cannot be passed on. It is an immediate experience, and immediate experience can only be talked about (very inadequately), never shared." --Aldous Huxley, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (1956)   Owens & Minor, Inc., a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, has been an industry leader in healthcare since 1882. When Owens & Minor University (OMU) added customer education as part of its mission in 2006, an opportunity presented itself to support professional development in nurses as ... Read More »