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Leadership Development: Moving from Priority to Action
A 2005 survey conducted by Bersin & Associates found organizations spend as much as 30 percent of their corporate training dollars on leadership development. This is no surprise. Around the globe, virtually all market sectors predict shortages of qualified leaders. It is also well-known that leadership skills drive results: High-quality leaders attract high-quality performers, which,…
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Management Training for Emerging Leaders in the Balkans
Through USAID’s e-Biz project, new Macedonian companies could leverage information and communications technologies to create emerging market opportunities for ailing local industries. Due to its success, other countries — and companies — might want to tak
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Building Leaders Over Time: Leveraging the Value of Learning
In our highly demanding world, there seems to be little time and support for people to reflect on learning experiences and to integrate new knowledge into their enterprises. This decreases the potential value of leadership development programs to the extent that business leadership questions the ROI. To meet this challenge, many organizations and leading business…
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Capital Decisions: Educating Executives
Major capital decisions tangibly shape the future of a company. However, this critical skill is often the most difficult to teach. To improve the return on capital employed, learning departments must master the art of capital decision making.
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Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
What is the total impact of learning and development on your organization? I’m not just talking about the obvious connection between enterprise education programs and productivity. Even the most jaded CEOs now seem to be catching on to the fact that building a smarter workforce leads to a better bottom line. What I’m getting at…
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Survey Investigates Executive Education Through Universities, Consultants
Corporate learning organizations are looking for deep, long-term consultative partnerships with executive education providers, according to a recent survey from Pennsylvania State University. The survey used an online assessment and subsequent telephone interviews with CLOs, senior HR representatives or training staff responsible for executive development within Fortune 500 companies, and revealed that CLOs usually do…
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The Learning Impact Measurement Framework
Kirkpatrick’s four levels of measurement are practically an institution in learning and development industry metrics.
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Survey: Although Popular, Definition of Leadership Coaching Eludes Managers
Leadership development tops the list of training manager, coaching managers and executives say they prefer, according to a survey by CO2 Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm based in Minnesota.












