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What Wikipedia Can’t Tell You About Action Learning Projects

Let's Grow Leaders

Done well, action learning projects are one of the very best forms of leadership development. A great action learning program (ALP) has tremendous benefits: New ideas from fresh perspectives. Learning is contextual. It doesn’t feel like training. Real work gets done. Lack of Project Sponsorship.

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What Wickipedia Can’t Tell You About Action Learning Projects

Let's Grow Leaders

Done well, action learning projects are one of the very best forms of leadership development. A great action learning program (ALP) has tremendous benefits: New ideas from fresh perspectives. Learning is contextual. It doesn’t feel like training. Real work gets done. Lack of Project Sponsorship.

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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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A Powerful and Cost Effective Way to Become a Stronger Manager

Let's Grow Leaders

Learn some skills, get out of your comfort zone, try them out, get feedback, take it seriously, adjust, repeat. It’s the premise behind high-end executive development programs that include action learning projects and 360 feedback assessments.

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7 Factors Affecting the Success of Organizational Leadership Development

Center for Creative Leadership

When I ask clients what kind of return they’re looking for from a leadership development initiative, it’s usually in terms of how the initiative can have a visible, measurable impact on the organization. Many factors drive the success of a leadership development initiative. Partner with your leadership development provider.

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Winners Are Born In Difficult Times

Tanveer Naseer

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop.

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After the Talent Review…Now What?

Great Leadership By Dan

I was at a conference recently and the session topic was leadership development and succession planning. It’s especially hard to provide a succinct answer when you’re been doing it for so long - it’s easy to go off on a tangent with so many aspects of leadership development. Give each person access to an online training library.

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