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

Great Leadership By Dan

They are hard working individuals who have the potential to be leaders based on their knowledge, skills, and the behaviors and attitudes they display. They are eager to learn new skills and take on additional responsibilities and bigger challenges. Influencing skills. What skills and behaviors do they have?

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business Review

This company, which stretched into all sorts of industries and markets, offering numerous strategic challenges, should have been an ideal training ground for executives. And their English language skills were quite limited. against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. Erika Andersen.