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Ask a Great Leadership Development Question - Get a Free Book!

Great Leadership By Dan

Every now again I get tapped out and need some inspiration. That''s where you, Great Leadership readers and supporters come in. Send me your question, and if selected, I’ll answer it in a post, or point to a previous post or posts. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll ask an expert in my network (citing the source with links of course).

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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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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.

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7 Factors Affecting the Success of Organizational Leadership Development

Center for Creative Leadership

Will they be on a panel to evaluate action-learning projects? Some senior leader stakeholders are best influenced by being actively involved in things. How can you get them involved and more committed to your initiatives? Can they be the one to invite people to the program? Will they share their own leadership journeys in the class?

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Mary Lauria, J&J’s Vice President of Global Talent Management, explains TAP as a four- to five-month program designed to provide emerging leaders with a wide range of experiences where they learn from individuals — or organizations — both within and outside of the enterprise.

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Your Team Needs an Intervention

Harvard Business Review

But lessons learned in a classroom or on a ropes course rarely translate to the crucible of real life. This is what organizational development types call "action learning," and it has two essential ingredients. Participants learn genuine collaboration while tackling the task at hand. Talent management'

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The Kind of Homework That Helps Coaching Stick

Harvard Business Review

Each member of the team was responsible for devising a project-based learning activity that would serve his or her own developmental goals while also contributing to the success of the firm.