The world of work has undergone massive shifts in recent decades, yet many organizations still rely on outdated leadership development approaches from the 1950s.
According to research by McKinsey, only 11% of executives strongly believe their leadership programs are successful. Similarly, estimates suggest a mere 10% of the $60 billion spent annually on leadership training generates concrete results.
These dismal numbers stem from an overreliance on skill-based training that fails to address the increasing complexity and context-driven nature of modern leadership.
As Lori Mazan, co-founder and president of Sounding Board, explains in the latest Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast interview with Rachel Cooke, COO and Principal HCM Analyst at Brandon Hall Group™, leadership is just as complex and can be life and death. The whole of employee development, including leader development, is built on this training model. We still constantly talk about upskilling and reskilling, and there is a need for this. But this is only the most basic.
Topics include:
- Why is a leadership revolution needed? What is so different now that we need new ways to develop leaders?
- What is the secret to exceptional leadership?
- Mazan says that skill-based development is not enough to ensure success. Why?
- Mazan states why leadership coaching is this era’s secret weapon.
- How do we move from the traditional focus on measuring activities to measuring and cultivating true developmental and organizational impact?
- How can old-school leaders unlearn the habits that worked for them in the past but are now detrimental to a modern workplace?
- How will AI impact the kind of leadership we need today?
- In the wave of AI, why is human-to-human development so critical?
- What will leadership development will look like five years from now?
- What can listeners do to best support their own leadership development right now?
