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The evolution of leadership development: challenges and best practice

Buus, Inger - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 37 (2005) 4, pp. 185-188

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the attitude of European organisations to leadership development initiatives …. Design/methodology/approach – The research, Leadership Development in European Organisations, conducted by DIEU, the Danish … Leadership Institute. The study was completed in November 2004 and was conducted among 51 global organisations via face …

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Changing mindset to improve results

Lazan, Michael - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 48 (2016) 5, pp. 231-233

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how it is possible to change a leadership team’s mindset from … leadership team of Spandex received training, coaching and support from The Arbinger Institute. Findings – As a result of this … work, the Spandex leadership team transformed from a dysfunctional group to a collaborative, high-performing team that …

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Using e‐learning to liberate the talents of nurses

Young, Kevin - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 35 (2003) 4, pp. 137-141

leadership training to 40,000 nurses. The project provided training to clinical staff at a cost of less than 50p per nurse and …

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CREATING A NEW LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE

Simmons, Michael - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 22 (1990) 5

A number of new concepts about leadership are described, together with a new approach to improving organisational … performance through the creation of a New Leadership Initiative. It is argued that effective leadership is the key to improving … organisational performance, and the limitations that traditional leadership imposes on the achievement of this improvement is …

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“Stepping out” with a total company learning framework

Morley, Ellen - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 34 (2002) 1, pp. 9-12

Investment in training and development is only truly effective if it realises benefits to the business in terms of skills and service improvements, staff retention and motivation, business improvements, increased turnover and cost reductions. This was the challenge faced by Harris Associates in...

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Using appreciative inquiry in sales team development

Lewis, Sarah; Passmore, Jonathan; Cantore, Stefan - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 40 (2008) 4, pp. 175-180

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the appreciative inquiry change methodology and to demonstrate how it can be applied to a specific work challenge. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first explains the appreciative inquiry method and gives an account of how the...

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Learning in action

Mumford, Alan - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 27 (1995) 8, pp. 36-40

Action learning was a comparative latecomer to the lexicon of management development techniques, gaining widespread acceptance only in the 1970s thanks to the work of Reg Revans. Reviews what we have since learned about the process, how it holds up against developments like the competence...

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