Leadership Development
Leadership development encourages the planning, creation and management of training programs and skills building needed to become a successful leader — from top executives to managers.


Introverts vs. Extroverts: How to Identify and Develop Diverging Personality Types
Convention says one is better at listening, while the other is more attuned to courting strong business relationships. How can CLOs recognize and develop the two?
Survey: Training Spending Remains Steady Talent Management Priority
While reduced talent management investment is the new normal, there's a desire for increased leadership training.

The Problem With Personality-Based Hiring
Hiring based on personality rather than competency and accomplishment may not bring about the desired performance results without a blended, outcomes-based learning approach.

Business Leaders Give Higher Ed a Failing Grade
While many Americans are suspicious of the culture of academia and rising tuition costs, they agree that higher education is important and should seek to better engage students in learning.

Building a Cloud Development Culture
Today’s workforce needs a learning environment that is transparent, connected and collaborative, and mobile, virtual and cloud technologies can help create it.

Care About Workforce Planning
Learning leaders should partner with their HR peers to ensure workforce planning efforts address current and future skill-building needs.

The Value of Virtual Reputation
The popular gaming mentality can translate into virtual knowledge sharing, but only if learners trust the experts they find online. Reputation is key when there is no handshake.
Coaching Profession Celebrates International Coaching Week
Thousands from around the world experienced coaching for the first time during International Coaching Week (ICW), Feb. 5-11.

Learning for Sale
Internal learning organizations can turn a profit selling their wares if they act like a business and identify a niche in the market.

Diagnosing Health Care Leadership Development
To succeed in today’s health care field, its leaders must develop better innovative learning strategies to communicate a compelling vision of high-quality, cost-effective care.
Study: Growth Ahead in Coaching Profession
Additional opportunities for the profession identified by coaches include: improved general perception, increased demand of coaching services and positive media attention of the industry.

The Secret Ingredient
Larry Israelite, Liberty Mutual’s top learning steward, has the company’s management training values down to a science.

How to Build on Young Leaders’ Skill Sets
Facebook’s recent IPO filing highlighted an interesting trend: Leaders are getting younger. CLOs had better be ready to develop them the right way.

Busted Learning Myths
The preponderance of evidence around leadership development suggests that if you’re doing it to improve leaders’ performance, you’re probably deluding yourself in terms of efficacy.

Managers: Your Development Power Players
To leverage the power of busy managers, ensure they are prepared to accept their roles as employee development partners.