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How to Develop Leadership Fitness in Your Organization

Diane Belcher — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:36:47 +0000

IN BRIEF: Research shows that the four dimensions of leadership fitness: Balance, Strength, Flexibility, and Endurance, can be cultivated over time. The learning cycle for leadership fitness development: Challenge Thinking, Develop Strategies, and Test Approaches, differs from traditional skill building. The importance of ongoing intentional development of leadership fitness at both individual and organizational levels, aiming for leaders to thrive in the dynamic landscape of modern leadership. In the previous post, we introduced you to the four dimensions of leadership fitness that were uncovered in our recent research—Balance, Strength, Flexibility and Endurance.[i] We referred to these dimensions as “capacities”—underlying qualities […]

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How to Assess Leadership Skills for a Leadership Development Program

Deanna Foster — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:41:39 +0000

IN BRIEF: When designing a leadership development program, your audience should feel seen and heard in the assessment process. Their insights and feedback improve program relevance, engagement, and trust. Assessment isn’t just for learners. Examining the organizational capacity for change can help remove obstacles to individual success. Mid-program assessment during a pilot allows L&D teams to course correct and monitor the path to realizing goals and impact. Employers predict that 44% of workplace skills will be disrupted in the next five years, and the rapid rise of AI this year alone might make that a conservative estimate. What we know […]

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Leadership Fitness: Four Capacities Leaders Must Develop

Diane Belcher — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:08:42 +0000

IN BRIEF: The most significant barrier to human-centered leadership—and to effective leadership in general—is that leaders may lack certain underlying capacities required to operate in this new environment. We identified four capacities leaders must develop—what we call the four dimensions of Leadership Fitness: Balance, Strength, Flexibility, and Endurance. Each dimension has an aspect of seeing differently, making sense of what is happening all around, as well as leading differently, and taking purposeful action. Even those of us who don’t watch much (or any) college basketball have probably heard of Caitlin Clark. She recently broke the all-time NCAA basketball scoring record […]

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How to Define Impactful Leadership Development Goals

Gregg Kober — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:00:04 +0000

IN BRIEF: Choose one key business priority to drive your learning initiative and use it as a filter for determining targeted leadership development goals. For maximum impact, focus on a limited number of highly impactful behaviors and outcomes. Choose specific and measurable success indicators to track before, during, and after the program. When organizations come to Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning, they are usually in the process of transformation. They know that although transformation sounds lofty, its success is largely determined by day-to-day actions. A recent McKinsey study concurs: “Organizations with successful transformations are more likely than others to embed transformation […]

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How to Create a Successful Leadership Development Program

Deanna Foster — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:38:12 +0000

IN BRIEF: Leadership development initiatives are most effective when they focus on performance outcomes that support a key business priority, like revenue increase. Leadership development program content and design should be tailored to different leadership levels for maximum relevance and engagement. Data should be collected before, during, and after the program to measure progress and optimize for impact. As organizations evolve in response to technological advancement, external events, and generational paradigm shifts, it can feel like the only constant for leaders is change. If so, there is no greater leadership asset than the drive to keep learning. And there […]

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The Case for Leadership Character

Diane Belcher — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:30:00 +0000

IN BRIEF: Research shows that organizations with leaders who achieve high character scores have an average return on assets five times higher than those with low character scores. Leadership character extends beyond just ethics and includes traits like compassion, willingness to serve others, and forgiveness. Character plays a significant role in decision making and performance, and it’s important for leaders at all levels, not just those in senior roles. When we think of leaders who possess character, we typically envision ethical behaviors such as telling the truth, standing up for what’s right, and treating others fairly. The notion of “ethics” […]

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Designing Hybrid Work

Conor Sheehan — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:13:59 +0000

IN BRIEF: Hybrid work in the post-pandemic world represents a dramatic shift, and it will require significant ongoing commitment and focus to get it right. Design thinking provides leaders with a process framework to inspire and guide them on the journey. There is no one-size-fits-all solution for successful hybrid work. Individual managers should be empowered to do what’s right for each member of their team. As leaders craft new hybrid work models that fit people, they can draw inspiration from design thinking processes to build empathy, iterate, and refine over time. By forcing knowledge work organizations into fully remote collaboration […]

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4 Employee Engagement Best Practices L&D Leaders Must Follow

Stephanie Santos — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:37:09 +0000

IN BRIEF: Investing in L&D throughout the enterprise can unlock deeper employee engagement and commitment. Personalized learning paths tailored to skills and needs gaps foster a sense of value and support for employees. Leveraging technology and offering contextualized and social learning experiences boosts engagement and improves learning outcomes. Despite how often we in the talent management world talk about employee engagement, very few members of the global workforce report a high level of involvement and enthusiasm in both their work and workplace. In fact, not even one in four employees (23%) feel engaged in their jobs.[i] As employers and […]

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Six Ways to Scale Corporate Leadership Development Quickly for Strategic Advantage

Abbey Lewis — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:10:14 +0000

IN BRIEF: Scaling corporate leadership development quickly is crucial due to rapid changes and challenges such as COVID and technological advancements. Effective scaling of corporate leadership development programs offers benefits including faster competency building, enhanced engagement, improved agility, and broader inclusivity. Six proven methods for optimizing corporate leadership development programs: small group learning at scale, personalization and learner choice, practice with feedback, adaptable solutions, combining synchronous and asynchronous learning, and facilitated debriefs. Scaling leadership development across the enterprise is vital to any company’s future success; scaling leadership development quickly is even more imperative. That’s because the pace of change […]

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The Modern Leader’s Greatest Balancing Act

Ellen Bailey — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 08:26:55 +0000

IN BRIEF: Amidst technological advancements, a timeless truth endures: Leaders remain responsible for guiding people. While the pandemic emphasized authentic and inclusive leadership, leaders are struggling to strike the right balance. Traditional leadership skills require fine-tuning to align with contemporary needs. In today’s technology-driven world, the expectations placed on leaders have evolved, creating a need for more tech-savvy leaders at all levels. But even as the latest trends and innovations captivate our attention, a fundamental truth remains unchanged: leaders still lead people. And although the pandemic brought authentic, empathetic, and inclusive leadership to the forefront, leaders haven’t nailed this […]

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