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The Widening Gap Between Leaders and Up-and-coming Leaders…and What to Do About It

Great Leadership By Dan

What’s needed to overcome what I call the “leadership crisis,” is not new technology or massive staffing changes. people), innovative practices such as job rotation, leadership development through coaching, mentoring, action-learning, and next-generation behavioral performance evaluation must all be considered.

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Three Key Criteria for Choosing the Right Custom Learning Partner

The Center For Leadership Studies

At a minimum, they should be skilled using adult-learning design practices and emerging technologies to develop in the core modalities—instructor-led training, virtual instructor-led training, e-learning, microlearning and gamification–-that can be consumed on the learner’s preferred device.

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7 Factors Affecting the Success of Organizational Leadership Development

Center for Creative Leadership

How can you use e-learning and technology to stretch and enhance your development efforts? Will they be on a panel to evaluate action-learning projects? One of the challenges of leading an internal leadership development function is providing cost-effective development for all leaders.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. Young leaders engage in an “action learning” project in which they work on real-life problems facing the firm. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. .

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, if your company isn’t leveraging action learning to develop leaders, fuel innovation, foster collaboration, and catalyze growth then you are missing a substantial opportunity. My message is a simple one…stop pondering and pontificating make a decision and take action.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

Take, for example, the impact of online technology. And it should probably culminate in action-learning practicums that require the help, support, and sponsorship of companies. In its own blunt and unfair way, the world outside the classroom bridged the gap in education and preparation. But a lot has changed.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

If you have months for a transition, Leonard suggests creating a “carefully constructed action plan of learning,” whereby the “highly skilled, deep smarts employee is paired with one or more replacements” so they can observe her in action, learn and practice new skills, and receive feedback on their performance.