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Leadership Development is not Supposed to be FUN

Great Leadership By Dan

When it comes to leadership development, I’ve always been a bit of a curmudgeon. Here’s the way I’ve always thought about leadership development: There is no such thing as a natural born leader - it takes a lot of HARD work to become one. Here’s a sampling of real leadership development programs being offered today: 1.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 46 – Your Leadership Off-Site is Wasting a Lot of People’s Time

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. why leadership off-sites are so often a missed opportunity. bottom-line impacts effective leadership off-sites can have.

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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. In our research , recently published in the Journal of Management, we set out to explore the effects of having an ambivalent relationship with one’s leader. We also asked them to rate the overall quality of their relationship with their manager (i.e.,

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. How talent management is changing.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

I met Tanya years ago, at a global corporation where she led a business unit and enjoyed a reputation as a formidable mentor. It is a promise of transformation — that a stint at the organization will change your substance and value, not just your leadership style, in ways that will outlast your tenure in it.