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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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The Kind of Homework That Helps Coaching Stick

Harvard Business Review

Managers can have a powerful, positive impact on their employees’ performance, engagement and development through coaching. As you gain greater insight into your employee’s thinking, motivations and interests, you’ll be better able to challenge and support him or her with homework that stimulates learning and development.

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10 Breakthroughs in Personal Development

Building Personal Strength

I was thinking about ProStar Coach today, the online virtual personal development coaching system, which has been in use for over two years now. So unlike most learning and development programs, ProStar Coach focuses on permanently changing behavior patters. Relationship skills. Critical thinking skills.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character. So a school could legitimately prepare a student for a business career while omitting training in sales. Further, “quality of fill” is not tracked; if it were, the results would generally be more discouraging.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

If you have months for a transition, Leonard suggests creating a “carefully constructed action plan of learning,” whereby the “highly skilled, deep smarts employee is paired with one or more replacements” so they can observe her in action, learn and practice new skills, and receive feedback on their performance.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Are we as an industry fulfilling the mission of developing great leaders capable of handling great challenges and accomplishing great things, or are the majority of those entering our ranks just here to make a quick buck? If you Google &# leadership development&# more than 4 million search results are returned.

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