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There’s an Alternative to Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

Action learning with a trained coach is a cost-effective approach that enables leaders to develop capabilities while working to solve urgent organizational or social problems. Essentially, leaders are learning while working, making it easy to see how learned skills apply on the job. But there’s an alternative.

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Corporate Training Trends 2020

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Earlier this year, Amazon announced a $700 million investment in employee training programs. “ We think it’s important to invest in our employees, and to help them gain new skills and create more professional options for themselves ,” said Beth Galetti, senior vice president of HR. Trend #1: Actionable Coaching.

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There’s an Alternative to Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

Action learning with a trained coach is a cost-effective approach that enables leaders to develop capabilities while working to solve urgent organizational or social problems. Essentially, leaders are learning while working, making it easy to see how learned skills apply on the job. But there’s an alternative.

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Growing a Model for Leadership

CLO Magazine

Mindtree had done some coaching to build its leaders in the early days including a development experience led by the company’s former chairman, said Vidya Santhanam, Mindtree program director, people function. Leadership competence is organized into four career tracks: Coach, Ninja, Thought Leader and Rainmaker. Bringing It to Life.

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Creating learning experiences that don’t suck

CLO Magazine

The majority of those experiences that truly impact us as humans are those we feel a part of, not simply like passengers tagging along. When you listen to stories from leaders, their deepest learning experiences have come from being a part of hard-won struggles in which they had to fight to succeed or learned from failure.

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Learning During Times of Growth

CLO Magazine

These kinds of solutions are definitely on the table for JetBlue, as are incentive and recognition programs that would help ensure that crewmembers actually participate in those kinds of collaborative learning and knowledge-sharing experiences. The e-learning program was augmented by a coaching model to solidify skills.

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Why You Should Encourage Leaders to Play Games

CLO Magazine

Instead, incorporating business dynamics like opportunities and threats helps players stay agile and flexible as they determine contingency plans for their company. Companies skeptical of gaming for leadership development often say previous game experiences were fun, but they did not provide a learning impact. John Gillis Jr.

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