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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research published in Harvard Business Review’s 2016 State of Leadership Development Study, indicated that only about 33% of Line-of-Business respondents said that they have become much more effective as managers after taking part in development programs. We may learn these competencies through leadership training.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Strategic planning. Strategic thinking. Creative thinking. Risk taking.

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Building the next leadership pipeline with short-term executive programs in Top B-schools

HR Digest

Seasoned executives in large corporations may have loads of experience in management, but there are many aspects of business that need to be honed constantly to make it to the top of the ladder. A good way of doing that is through some executive business programs on offer in almost all major business management colleges.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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Do Not Split HR – At Least Not Ram Charan’s Way

Harvard Business Review

He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. When HR professionals bring unique insights about talent, leadership, and capability to the senior management dialogue, they add enormous value. This is both unfair and simplistic.

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Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

But building a consistently strong top leadership team is difficult for at least three reasons: the tendency to be loyal to existing members, the lack of management depth to promote from, and many CEOs’ lack of experience in many functional areas. To his surprise, the sales team was relieved; they had been micro-managed.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. Women have fewer leadership role models and they arguably have greater demands outside of work competing for their attention.