Clore Social Fellows 2014 group shot. Photograph: Geoff Wilson/©Geoff Wilson 2013 By Dame Mary Marsh - theguardian.com Over the past four years I have been looking for people with a commitment to making a difference in the world through social action. This week, the 2014 cohort has...
By Jack Zenger - forbes.com In short, companies can assess the investment in leadership development most readily through measurable improvements afterwards in the way leaders lead. That improvement should be apparent to subordinates, peers and boss, and ideally it is quantifiable by some objective yardstick. The...
By Jeanne Meister - forbes.com Have you ever watched someone play Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, or World of Warcraft? They are totally absorbed in the moment. What are they playing for, you might ask? Often, it is just the sense of personal accomplishment in reaching a...
By Karen Voloshin, Julie Winkle Giulioni - astd.org The simplest leadership development programs may be the most effective and sustainable. After a lengthy moratorium on leadership development during the recent recession, many leaders in the training and development field predict that organizations will begin investing heavily again...
By John Dame and Jeffrey Gedmin - hbr.org Whether we’re looking at business or politics, sports or entertainment, it’s clear we live in an era of self-celebration. Fame is equated with success, and being self-referential has become the norm. As a result we are encouraged to...
By Jack Zenger - forbes.com One of the boxes on most performance appraisal forms is a summary of the individual’s plans for development during the ensuing year. Such plans are usually sketchy. They most often include some outside or internally sponsored course or program the individual...
By Scott Edinger - forbes.com It has become vogue in talent management to focus on strengths as a means to developing leadership skills. This is hardly a new idea since Peter Drucker was talking about this over 40 years ago when he wrote in The Effective...
By Jack Zenger - forbes.com Every leader I know is extremely busy getting their job done. At the same time, they also realize that investing effort in their own leadership development is good. The problem is that when faced with a choice, work seems to always...
Lack of accountability, weak succession plans among key barriers: study. By Claudine Kapel - hrreporter.com An aging workforce and warnings of an imminent exodus of retiring baby boomers are making leadership development a high priority for many organizations. Most organizations understand what needs to be done – at...
By Jack Zenger - forbes.com One lesson that you learn reasonably early in life is that if you need to be somewhere at a specific time, and you know roughly how long it will take to make the trip to your destination, it is important to...