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Why don’t traditional leadership development programmes work?
It isn’t a lack of content: it’s design. The six reasons leadership training doesn’t turn into behaviour, and what to do so that learning becomes part of the routine.
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Seven structural limits of in-house leadership training, and how to solve them
An in-house programme codes the culture, brings a new manager on board and aligns language — but it was never designed to transform behaviour. The seven structural limits of the "in-house only" model, the cost that stays off the spreadsheet, and what NR-1 now demands as evidence.
How do you engage leaders in development programmes? And why is the format the problem!
Many leadership programmes do not fail due to lack of leader interest, but due to a format that does not fit his routine. In this article I show why companies like Chevron and Twilio abandoned one-off immersions in favour of continuous mentoring, and what this changes in adoption and results.
Microsoft didn't change strategy first. It changed the behaviour of those who lead.
The transformation led by Satya Nadella shows why strategy and technology don't produce their best results without leaders capable of learning, listening and changing their own behaviour.
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