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Communication, HR, Leadership, Leadership Development, Learning & Development, Organisational Development

How Long Should a Leadership Development Programme Be?

How do you decide how long your leadership development programmes should be? This is a challenge in many organisations, and there are usually two deciding factors involved: The budget you have available for the specific programme How many days you think leaders will be prepared to invest in attending the workshop(s) If you’re like most HR and L&D professionals I meet, you already recognise that – usually – neither the budget nor the time available are sufficient to really get ...

Communication, HR, Leadership, Organisational Development, Performance Management, Performance Reviews

5 Ways to Enable Effective Performance Management Conversations

Mercer’s 2013 Global Performance Management Survey reports that only 7% of managers were felt to be “highly skilled at having candid dialogue with their direct reports about performance”. The same survey found that approximately one in three organisations worldwide said that “improving managers’ ability to have candid dialogue with employees has the greatest impact on overall company performance”. So, one-third of companies recognise the crucial role of “candid dialogue” in improving organisational performance, while less than one in ten managers ...