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How to Involve Participants in a Leadership Training Program

Great Leadership By Dan

Even the most brilliant, credible, and talented instructors with the most dazzling PowerPoint slides won’t guarantee participants in a leadership training program are actually going to learn anything. I was happy to oblige. (-: Telling vs. learning: Start by cutting your content in half and build in “soak” time.

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Three Key Criteria for Choosing the Right Custom Learning Partner

The Center For Leadership Studies

As organizations redefine their talent development strategies, many are looking to outsource custom learning development to accelerate and enhance their offerings. With the abundance of training and content development providers available, the search can be daunting. So, how do you find the right learning partner?

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45 Executive Development Program Tools and Techniques

Great Leadership By Dan

A great executive development program should be more than lots of lectures and a few case studies. Action learning projects. Study trips. Peer consulting on a personal case. Participants need to be engaged through a variety of creative approaches. Reflection papers. Reflection session. Managerial exchange.

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Team Building Activity – Distinctive:Working Well:100 Days Future Perfect

Mike Cardus

These ‘action plans’ should be small steps (able to complete in 100 days) and something that person can do with their knowledge, skills, resources and time. Coert Visser’s wonderful blog Doing What Works – Case Study Trust is Gone. Mike will make you a success and your next meeting and training program better than ever.

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Sky Bottle Commander: Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

If you would like to be a case-study, test some of the activities or send me some photos, variations of this activity Please send them to me. Mike will come to you to facilitate the action learning and processing, or can just send you a document with videos and photos of how to do everything you need. Contact Mike.

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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. One such example was a young man who was on my team with a Ph. D from Columbia.

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