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Three Proven Reasons You Should Invest in Leadership Development

The Center For Leadership Studies

By developing leadership skills at all levels of your organization (from new employees to individual contributors to first-time managers and beyond) you’ll build a strong leadership pipeline. Leadership Development Creates a Competitive Edge. Leadership development and change management are woven closely together.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

They are not willingly, enthusiastically, and repeatedly saying ‘yes’ when asked to contribute and participate. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Real Results.

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

Great Leadership By Dan

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

A good present-day example of this type of leadership can be found in Virgin Group Ltd, a very successful corporation renowned for its presence in a wide variety of global markets. Walton has implanted within his teams the overriding philosophy to always listen to the customer and put the customers needs above all else.

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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets. We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Looming Talent Drought?

Harvard Business Review

I reached that conclusion in 2007, after working with Nitin Nohria, the current dean of Harvard Business School, and colleagues at the executive search firm Egon Zehnder to gauge the effects of three factors – globalization , demographics, and leadership pipelines – on competition for senior talent in large organizations.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions.