Leadership training has changed little in the last 30 years. If you search for leadership training programs on the web sites of the world\u2019s leading business schools you will see approaches that are very similar to the leadership programs offered in the’ 70s and ’80s. Just because it worked then does not mean it works today.<\/p>\n
However, the practice of leadership has changed hugely. We operate in multiple locations, across timezones, with highly diverse groups of employees and in much more complex and fast moving organizations.<\/p>\n
This gap between the new reality of our environment and the old-fashioned skills we teach on our leadership training programs not only means that a lot of leadership training is a poor investment, it may even make things worse by promoting out of date solutions to today\u2019s real leadership challenges.<\/p>\n
After 15 years training leaders of ever more complex teams in over 300 of the world\u2019s leading companies in 40 countries and delivering over 100,000 participant days of training we have reached some startling conclusions with major implications for leadership training and development.<\/p>\n
Successful companies grow, and as they grow, they become more complex and it takes more time and effort to get things done. Eventually complexity undermines what made the company successful in the first place; the old, entrepreneurial spirit breaks down, bureaucracy increases and progress slows.<\/p>\n
Four key leadership training myths are getting in the way of us developing the leadership skills and leadership training programs we need in this new more complex leadership environment.<\/p>\n
Most leadership training programs still carry these inaccurate assumptions from a much simpler leadership past. Leaders are working harder and harder to apply out of date skills to more complex, multi-site, virtual, cross-cultural and matrixed organizations. The answer is not working harder with the old skills but implementing faster and simpler ways of working.<\/p>\n
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