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What Is the Future of Leadership Development?

22 Mar 2012

It’s true. Our current leadership development methods have a reductionist approach and 20th Century industrialism stamped all over them. However, if our organizations are to be sustainable in a competitive, global economy, our leaders must break free of the chains of tradition.

In this Leadership Development Executive Council session, we contemplated the future of leadership development, including elements such as:

Target: Organization capability (vs. personal skills)
Focus: Learning as a problem-solving method
Accelerators: Debate, synthesis, experimentation, monitored practice
Environment: Opportunities to explore and do something original
Practice: Adapting principles and theories to local context, and begin again when first attempts fail
Mindset: Helping leaders see with a new lens, as if they came from another planet

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