McKinsey & Company have a perspective. Their studies show that organizations can avoid the most common mistakes in leadership development and increase the odds of success by:

  • matching specific leadership skills and traits to the context at hand;
  • embedding leadership development in real work;
  • fearlessly investigating the mind-sets that underpin behavior; and,
  • monitoring the impact so as to make improvements over time.

You might find this article insightful:

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/leading_in_the_21st_century/why_leadership-development_programs_fail

Nic Tsangarakis, Principal
nict@kwelaleadership.com