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Creating Purposeful Leadership Development Training Programs

The Regis Company

There are many shiny objects available to corporate development training companies to infuse their programs with from a wide array of technologies (i.e.: It’s actually surprising how few corporate development training programs really challenge their participants to stop and think. badges, leaderboards). Seems obvious, right?

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Leadership Development Simulations: Friday Top Five

The Regis Company

This week's compilation by The Regis Company brings together articles focused on the topic of leadership development simulations. We’ve rounded up articles on everything from specific instances when simulations should be considered along with the "good" stress that business simulations bring to bring to its participants.

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Leadership Irony: To Accomplish More, Do Less

Great Leadership By Dan

On the agenda, was a business simulation that was akin to an outdoor scavenger hunt. The participants were divided into small groups and each team was asked to spend a few hours strategizing and developing a plan that would lead to the best and fastest way to find items and “collect” associated winnings.

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Feeling Ambivalent About Your Boss Hurts Your Performance Even More Than Disliking Them

Harvard Business Review

Developing good relationships is a crucial aspect of leadership. and the rest of the participants were undergraduate students at a UK university who engaged in a business simulation. TommyL/Getty Images. These positive effects have appeared across a wide range of jobs and cultures.

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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve participated in a training or development program in the past two decades, chances are you took an assessment designed to increase self-awareness. Yet in talent development practice, companies spend millions of dollars and countless hours every year on self-reported assessments that only target self-knowledge.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

If you're not running an innovative innovation contest to invite participation and build brand, then you're reacting to your competitor's competition. That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. Will your contest be competitive with their contest? Who's running it? Who's judging it?

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

Books are great to foster intellectual understanding but are not interactive and do not reflect the reality of busy schedules and declining attention spans. And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. Live pilots are highly realistic but costly, time consuming and risky.