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Creating Purposeful Leadership Development Training Programs

The Regis Company

Even as an executive leadership development company, our team found ourselves falling into the same captivating trap of infusing these enticing tools in our programs wrapped in the comfort that these tried and true principles were the backbone of traditional design. Seems obvious, right?

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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. We can’t simply think our way out of a habit.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

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. In Search of Portable Leadership. The pursuit of portability (cloaked as leadership) took two different forms.