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Posted on March 1, 2019 by Michael Couch

Intentional Leadership Development: Build It In, Don’ Bolt It On

We often begin Leadership Development discussions by asking the question, “What occurred in your past that makes a difference in how you lead today?”. We’ve probably asked this 100 times and the results are always the same. Leaders report that they learned meaningful skills by...

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Posted on February 24, 2019 by Michael Couch

Intentional Leadership Development: Have a Planned and Targeted Impact

One of the essentials we espouse to help cure the The Sad State of Leadership Development is to assure that any initiative begins by framing the development in a manner that clearly links outcomes to effort, linking “Why is this important?”  to “How is this accomplished?”....

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Posted on February 8, 2019 by Michael Couch

Intentional Leadership Development

Intentional Leadership Development - How to resurrect faltering leadership development Continue reading →

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Posted on February 1, 2019 by Michael Couch

What Ben Franklin Knew About Leadership Development

Since his birthday was in January, there was a recent flurry of articles and posts about olde Ben Franklin.  One of the articles referred to the character development system that Ben created at the age of 20. In his autobiography, Ben attributed much of his...

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Posted on January 25, 2019 by Michael Couch

Leadership Development and Business Performance: Proving the Link

I’ve had several occasions over the years when executives have asked me whether the time, effort and dollars invested in leadership development makes as difference. My answer is always a qualified, “Yes”, if the leadership development focus and approach is built from the company’s strategy...

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Posted on January 22, 2019 by Michael Couch

The Sad State of Leadership Development – and a Solution

It’s estimated that U.S. companies spend over $14 billion annually on leadership development. Match that number to the abundant and growing research that finds most leadership development to be ineffective and the conclusion is a phenomenal amount of waste. A 2015 study by the Brandon...

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