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Senior leadership can be exciting, rewarding and hugely influential. It can also be lonely, complex and, at times, overwhelming.
Many senior leaders discover that the skills which helped them succeed earlier in their careers are not always the skills they need at the top. The challenges become less about managing tasks and more about leading people, culture, strategy and change.
Here are some of the questions we are often asked in the training room.
Sometimes I dread telling people what I do for a living.
I’ll mention training, leadership, management, and presentation skills. I’ll watch their eyes glaze over, their teeth clench, and then they’ll groan, “Oh yeah, I’ve been on training…”
A truth acknowledged but rarely discussed in the learning and development community is that most corporate training is actually quite dull and ineffective. Usually, someone like me stands up in front of a group and delivers training; interesting content, perhaps, but one-way and often transactional. The trainer regurgitates the work of great thinkers such as Drucker, Cialdini, Maslow, and Blanchard, speaking at people. Training is done to you. It’s not a place to think – the thinking has been done for you.