Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore family business, leadership development, family dynamics, succession, and governance. It is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate family business and leadership courses; and to facilitate dialogue among members of family enterprises to...

Purpose – A case study showing how leadership development can be embedded within a CSR framework to deliver stakeholder benefits, competitive advantage and an economic return at a time when investment in CSR and training and development are often reduced. The aim was to bring leadership...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand what contributes to transfer of soft‐skill, leadership training. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a literature review resulted in five broad factors that may influence transfer of leadership training. These were used to...

Purpose – This paper is derived from a two‐year study that sought to provide a critical understanding of the current state of business leadership development (BLD) and to identify directions for innovative future practice. The second of two companion papers, this contribution aims to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to place the growing body of research on leadership self‐efficacy in context for practicing or aspiring leaders. Design/methodology/approach – The paper highlights, synthesizes, and frames research on leadership self‐efficacy for leaders who seek to...

Purpose – An increasingly popular method of facilitating employee and leadership development is via a career community (Parker et al. , 2004), where individuals self-organize to obtain career support. This study was driven by the following research question: how do external peer coaching...

Purpose The Global Suppliers leadership capability model (GSLCM) answers essential questions emerging from a strategy development framework in which leaders uncover their assumptions, test those assumptions in the marketplace, and learn from failure and success in an iterative cycle. The purpose...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at how an integrated program of formal learning, coaching, business mentoring and project work is delivering results for a television solutions company, NDS. Design/methodology/approach – Presents the comments of Philippa Davidson, human...

Purpose – This article examines a team and leadership‐development course based on the parallels between a shepherd and his or her dog and a manager and his or her employees. Design/methodology/approach – Draws on information provided in an interview with a farmer and international sheepdog...

Purpose – Shares the successful experience of Lilly Research Laboratories (LRL) in engaging senior leaders in developing the next generation of leaders. Design/methodology/approach – Describes LRL's major leadership development programmes, and in particular the course on inspirational...