Leadership Development

As more and more baby boomers reach retirement age and leave the workforce, companies have scrambled to deal with the knowledge and skills that will exit, as well. Learning and development has played an integral role in this effort.

Despite the growing popularity of executive coaching, its effectiveness has been hindered by common misconceptions, said Gary Cohen, president of CO2 Partners, a Minnesota-based leadership development firm.

The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) has announced that Marshall Goldsmith has been appointed chairman emeritus.

Flexible working can work for small employers, as well as their employees, but it is the business case – not legislative requirements – that will deliver change.

Team Builders Plus, a global team-building and leadership-development organization, recently received the Emerald Award from Inscape Publishing of Minneapolis for outstanding consulting achievements.

For a premier financial services company in the Midwest.

More than half of managers have participated in workplace coaching in the past few years, according to a survey of 3,447 individuals, nearly all of whom are middle- to senior-level managers.