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How to Ensure High ROI Training

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Nothing burns time, energy, and leadership credibility like wasted training. Three specific mistakes undermine training. You’ll also get eight practical ways to overcome these mistakes and ensure high ROI training to help your people and your business. Include leaders as teachers and transform your training.

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How to Leverage Your Skills with the Most Valuable Leadership Practice

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I’m training for my first ultra-marathon of about 33 miles over hilly trails. You can’t train for a race like this in a day or a week. It takes months of consistent training including running, strength work, and stretching for your body to adapt and grow to meet the new demands. Why Consistency?

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What Wikipedia Can’t Tell You About Action Learning Projects

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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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How to Explain Leadership Development to a 5th Grader (A Leadership Development Glossary)

Great Leadership By Dan

Action Learning : A type of leadership development program where participants work on real projects and learn at the same time. Bench Strength : Used in succession planning, a measure of how strong or weak an organization’s succession plans or talent pool is. As a noun, it’s often some kind of instrument, or test.

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How to Achieve Better Gender Balance through Succession Planning and Development

Great Leadership By Dan

Train Leaders in the importance of gender balance. For example, diverse “action learning” teams often produce the most creative solutions. It’s not that complicated to do, it just takes a boatload of commitment, most importantly, from the leader of an organization, along with the support of a strong HR leader.

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