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Why do so many leadership development programs fail?

Great Results Team Building

Way back in January 2014, in an issue of McKinsey Quarterly , a group of researchers attempted to answer this question: “Why do so many leadership development programs fail?” ” They summarized their finding into the four main issues that led to a lack of results in most leadership development programs.

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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

It’s very easy to have what CEO Seah Chin Siong of the Singapore Institute of Management calls “goal erosion,” defining it as “Doing what is easy, going through the motions, but not doing the hard things the ultimate mission requires.” She was formerly with McKinsey, working with MNCs and local companies in the US, China, and India.

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Executive Coaching Company Breakdown: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching for Strategic Change

N2Growth Blog

Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades. For example, executive coaching is often likened to general business coaching, which is an incorrect and potentially dangerous comparison to make. It also prepares leaders to provide better opportunities to their employees and others around them.

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Developing Leaders: Why Training Interventions Fail?

QAspire

Companies spend considerable amount of time and money on developing leaders through training programs and workshops. My experience so far suggests that these time-bound and finite interventions fail over a long run in developing leadership capabilities. Subscribe via RSS , Connect via Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.

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From Clashes to Collaboration – 7 Steps to a Thriving Team Culture After a Corporate Merger

Great Results Team Building

Align strategic goals with cultural direction – will the new culture be more risk-taking or conservative, hierarchical or flat? Your goal isn’t a mushy mix, but a refined taste of excellence. Bring Everyone Together: Craft a Cohesive Story Focus on common goals to overcome the initial hurdles of integration.

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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

P ERHAPS it goes without saying, but a healthy organization will achieve more than an organization that is too sick to support your goals. Health is how effectively an organization works together in pursuit of a common goal. Here are the five frameworks for health : Aspire : Health goals. Health is about the how.

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Engagement and Motivating Employees

CoachStation

Developing the skills to engage team members is important. As a leader you are obligated to develop your skills to influence and support each and every team member. Your goal must be to ensure your team members are regularly performing work that they are good at and care about. It won’t always be like this, however.