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.


How to Boost the Creative Energy of Employees
Employees who are imaginative and original are better able to generate breakthroughs that stimulate organizational growth and performance. Leaders should enhance this creativity.

Blind Spots
Are learning leaders killing their credibility by not working with IT in the way the workforce needs?

Values-Driven Leadership
Bottom-line results can be improved by changes in leadership culture. Retention rate, customer satisfaction and shareholder value can all be affected by a value-driven leadership.

Developing Multidimensional Leaders
Leaders today can’t be one-dimensional, narrowly focused on only their greatest strengths. Innovation, social change and business transformation require more.

Think Locally, Act Globally
Done right, international service projects do good for the communities they serve as well as develop leadership strength and valuable market intelligence.

The Upside to Social Networking
Social media can help people better themselves and their workplaces if leaders use technology to promote behavioral change rather than enable work distractions.

The Power of Anxiety
Learning design often aims to make learners comfortable, but learning can be accelerated by creating feelings of discomfort.

McDonald’s Marks 50 Years of Learning
A year-long celebration of Hamburger University's 50 year anniversary kicked-off Tuesday, with the reveal of a new HU logo.

Focusing on Individual Leadership Development for Organizational Growth
In building the relationship capacity necessary to constantly reinvent and cultivate themselves, organizations should attend to both individual leader and collective leadership development.

Avoiding the Trickle of a Leaking Pipeline
A recent survey shows commitment to succession planning is shallow. Developing future leaders now can help a company in the coming years.

Yum Brands Delivers Fast Food and Content
A learning content management system helped Yum Brands standardize training in a decentralized environment, reuse content, improve retention and ensure a consistent customer experience.

Scrap Learning and Manager Engagement
By participating in the training process pre- and post-event, managers can ensure that employees retain and apply more of what they learn.

The State of Learning
Learning in today’s companies is much like teaching someone to ride a bike. At the end of the day, the question isn’t what resources you provided but rather whether they can perform the task at hand.

Leading By Example
Learning leaders should maintain a reasonable balance between life and work and relay that message to all developing employees to reduce potential for tired, over-stretched workers.

Nurturing Leaders From Within
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Chief Learning Officer Larry Mohl used his background in engineering and team development to create a learning culture that can heal the sick and aid leadership growth.