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How to Achieve Better Gender Balance through Succession Planning and Development

Great Leadership By Dan

For example, diverse “action learning” teams often produce the most creative solutions. Every successor should also have an individual development plan (IDP) and a senior level mentor. Engage high potentials in career and development discussions.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

A complete career change. Career-wise, this is the granddaddy of development moves. Sure, no one likes to start all over again at the bottom – but perhaps there’s something out there that would allow you to use 40-60% of what you’ve already learned, and provide an opportunity to learn something new for the other 40-60%?

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

To address this challenge, J&J designed their Talent Acceleration Process (TAP) in 2012, which fast-tracks early- to mid-career individuals to senior leadership positions. Participants go through three intensive sessions and work on an “action learning project” as part of a small team.

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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

Having been trained by one of the best companies in the world on Leadership Development, (GE), in one of the best action learning environments in the world (a high performance culture), I frown on textbook practitioners. In the end they learned valuable lessons that help them show leaders where the land mines are buried.

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