Stop Wasting Money on Leader Training

In a hyper-competitive, global environment organizational leaders know that they must develop their managers and teams or risk being out-innovated and outperformed in record time. Yet, despite the billions of dollars spent every year on leader training, there is a continual flow of evidence from consultancies and academia that training fails to deliver against expectations. Recent articles from Gallup -  “Why Manager Development Programs Aren’t Working” ,  McKinsey, and HBR all emphasize the…

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Training vs. Coaching: Which Path to Developing Better Teams?

During my 25-plus years in large organizations, I have participated in dozens of leadership training sessions, along with a handful of leadership coaching experiences. Reflecting on those many training sessions, I struggle to recall many ideas that drove actions that led to meaningful, measurable results on my team or teams around me. In contrast, nearly 25 years ago, I received intensive coaching during the Center for Creative Leadership's week-long Leadership Development Program (LDP)…

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