Dave Anderson | Tag Archive | Consulting
When Human Resources took over leadership training, I didn’t immediately notice a change. In fact, I felt the leadership development department initially did a good job making the classes more specific to my job than the consultants they had hired in the past.
But over time, a shift occurred. Leadership development became more about how not to get the company in trouble and not about developing the leader. As a result, experienced leaders became ambivalent to training and younger leaders became HR processes experts. Continue Reading…
Most corporate sponsored leadership training is ineffective. Why?
- Many consultants attempt to jam their round peg of a program into the square hole of an organization.
- Most training has a short half -life because there lacks accountability within the client organizations to actually implement the ideas generated at training events.
- Leadership training often focuses on what a leader needs to do to others versus what the leader needs to change in himself/herself.
Continue Reading…