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What makes leadership development effective?


Some research suggests that a substantial amount of leadership development activity doesn't deliver the anticipated benefits to the business - in fact over 30% of respondents to a 2005 leadership survey rated their development activities as 'not very effective'. Based on our own research and experience, we believe that that are a number of key aspects to successful leadership development programmes:

  • Align with the business strategy
  • Invest time in engaging the stakeholders
  • Avoid short-termism
  • Bring an external perspective
  • Design-in evaluation
  • Make it challenging & stretching
  • Mix it up

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