Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

All were trained to respond to co-workers on their feedback using a very simple follow-up process. At the end of the training, leaders were asked in a confidential survey if they were going to do what was taught in the program. The training that they attended produced no more change than staying home and watching sitcoms.

360-Degree Feedback 166

360-Degree Feedback Follow-up Ethics Learning-by-Doing 166

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 19, 2015

Many years ago, a VP participant of a training session I facilitated asked me the perfectly reasonable question, “Does anyone who goes to one of these leadership development programs ever really change?”. Why would people go through a training, promise to implement what he/she had learned, and then not do it? I thought about it.

Follow-up 70

Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Participative Training 70

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

When I conducted leadership training for J&J, one of its very top executives spent many hours with every class. See “Leadership Is a Contact Sport,” by Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan, s+b, Fall 2004.) We looked at the impact of leadership development programs in changing executive behavior.

Ethics 137

Ethics Pharmaceuticals PR Execution 137

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

All were trained to respond to co-workers using a simple follow-up process. At the end of the training, leaders were asked in a confidential survey if they were going to do what was taught in the program. The training that they attended produced no more change than staying home and watching sitcoms.

360-Degree Feedback 96

360-Degree Feedback Follow-up Ethics Training 96