Sunday, January 29, 2006

How Leaders Learn


Leadership-development programs tend to use methods that are embedded in real work and rely on senior executives to teach others.

Last year we at Executive Development Associates conducted a survey of trends in executive development with 100 chief learning officers and heads of leadership-development departments from top companies around the world. We asked them what learning methods they would use the most over the next two to three years. In other words, how will their leaders learn? And by inference, what do they think are the most effective ways for leaders to learn? Here are the top ten answers (the number next to each indicates the percentage of respondents who indicated that learning method would be highly emphasized):

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