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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 ), you’re ready to design and develop a program that retains Baby Boomers’ knowledge. Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs.

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business Review

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. It’s not that development itself isn’t important. So they’re looking for ways to cultivate those competencies and, in the process, feeding the fad-driven leadership development market. Paul Garbett for HBR.

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Good Leaders Are Good Learners

Harvard Business Review

Although organizations spend more than $24 billion annually on leadership development, many leaders who have attended leadership programs struggle to implement what they’ve learned. Our research on leadership development shows that leaders who are in learning mode develop stronger leadership skills than their peers.

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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Tapping into your outside experts to help in the development of internal employees is a valuable way to address the needs of both. Experts are often looking for ways to help junior people in their profession, and younger employees are hungry for training and development. Involve Experts as Part of the Brain Trust.

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Change Leadership: Overcoming Change Fatigue and Organizational Burnout

Strategy Driven

For example, Roger Federer once said that he uses the breaks between sets to determine what in his strategy and execution is working or needs to change to win the match. We recommend instituting after-action reviews (AARs) – formal learning sessions that were originally developed in the U.S.

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Managing On-Demand Talent

Harvard Business Review

Few companies are shifting in the direction of agile talent as a total workforce strategy, at least currently. Now every performer is performing at their top level…” Be a talent developer. Yes, managers of agile talent need to coach and invest in the development of their external experts.