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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few.

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How to Involve Participants in a Leadership Training Program

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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. Build involvement into the design of a program: Adult learners, especially senior managers, are ADD when it comes to training.

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

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As I wrote Building Blocks — Case Studies of a Serial Entrepreneur , I realized that over the years, I toiled with many of my failures, but I never analyzed the variables of the successes. Few, if any, have had soft-skill training in actual management topics such as difficult conversations and delegation. Personalized Learning.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

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To illustrate this, we need look no further than one of the most famous case studies in professional ethics. Yet the flaws in Ford’s analysis are immediately evident to someone properly trained in ethical reasoning. Training in ethical analysis can play a key role in developing ethical leadership.

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How to Connect with An Audience—It’s One of Your Most Important Leadership Skills

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They include a story, quotation, statistic, personal anecdote, case study or client testimonial, demonstration, visual, expert testimony, or even today’s headline or a musical cue. I once had a client who asked me to help her with a full-day training she was going to be conducting.

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45 Executive Development Program Tools and Techniques

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A great executive development program should be more than lots of lectures and a few case studies. Participants need to be engaged through a variety of creative approaches.

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How to Get the Most Benefit from an Executive Development Program

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I’m pretty convinced it comes down to the following: (btw, I wrote this in the context of an executive development program, but many of the tips would be applicable for any training program, conference, or learning event.). Connect, connect, connect! Do the prework and evening assignments.

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