What have you learnt this week?

This is a living collection of resources that I share with my Personal Effectiveness and Leading Teams & Organisations classes to support their personal and leadership development planning. It is also useful for Coaching clients to develop their action plans. See also the materials on the leadership journey

Adults are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting. Richard Pascale

Conduct an Informal 360

What's Holding You Back?

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

Get the feedback you need to grow

Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation

The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential

Overcoming Organizational Defenses: Facilitating Organizational Learning Perfect Paperback

Teaching Smart People How to Learn

The unique challenges of developing R&D Leaders

Why should I do my own research instead of just asking ChatGPT?

Toxic culture, inadequate management, lack of training

Best Practices are Useless in Complex Systems

Why Startups Should Train Their People

Feel free to stop striving: learn to relish being an amateur

What Job Seekers Wish Employers Knew

Leadership Development: Up Close and Personal - Ideas for Leaders

Perplexed? Embrace it! Confusion is a symptom of learning

Developing dual awareness

Personality and Strategic Performance

Showing the love as a science leader: the emotional side of empowering and inspiring others

26th Annual Global CEO Survey | PwC

‘It’s that moment of mastery when something difficult gives way’: Adam Gopnik on the pleasure of learning a new skill

Inside-out + outside-in: why getting the right balance of skills must be top priority for your organization

Why Giving People Advice Almost Never Works

When Survivorship Bias meets Superstitious Learning

Teaching RenDanHeYi in business schools

conversation matters

How to become an expert

The debrief imperative: building teaming competencies and team effectiveness

How Managers Can Build a Culture of Experimentation

Defining the skills citizens will need in the future world of work

These are the most effective ways to develop and use confidence at work

Redressing the Praise Deficit: Women in Leadership and Leveraging Your Best Self

Why we need a new kind of education: Imagination Studies

Putting mind and body to the test: Embodied learning and the growth of psychological capital

Shaping individual development along the S-curve

Intentional learning in practice: A 3x3x3 approach

Inside Rishad Premji’s quest to create a high-performing culture at Wipro

Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience

Summer Self-Development the Peter Drucker Way

Job descriptions for managers need to change. Science tells us how

How to Read Fewer Books

The Working Future: More Human, Not Less

Global management programmes can help win the escalating 'talent war'

Leveraging experiential learning in a hybrid world

Vertical development: cultivating mindsets, emotions, and habits to lead effectively

How Well-Designed Work Makes Us Smarter

How to Leave your Comfort Zone and Enter your ‘Growth Zone’

Get Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable

Mixed signals from the top get in the way of employees' improvement efforts

Move beyond HiPo development to unlock your organization’s full potential

Make Learning a Part of Your Daily Routine

On the Ethics of Psychometric Instruments Used in Leadership Development

The 'Swiss Army Knife' Approach to Talent

Using flexible leadership development solutions to combat the SHEcession

Improvisation Takes Practice

Designing leadership programs for women that really work

Reach the Next Level by Learning How to Learn

Tips for Improving Your Learning Agility

The Aggregation–Learning Trade-off

If you lie down with clones you will stagnate your career

Three Steps to Building a Learning Culture That Delivers Innovation

Make Learning a Part of Your Daily Routine

Dave Ulrich on L&D priorities for today’s professionals

Reviving the art of apprenticeship to unlock continuous skill development

How Vertical Development helps new leaders truly transform

The Skills of Successful Change Leadership

Succession Planning: How To Define And Measure A Leader’s Potential

Entrepreneurial learning and strategic foresight

What’s the Best Way to Learn a New Skill—by Doing or by Viewing?

Why Do Some Leaders Get Better with Time?

Three Dimensions of Leadership Agility

EPIC: An Effectuation Boot Camp for Startups in Bangalore

End Imposter Syndrome in Your Workplace

Adaptability is the new efficiency - Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media

After-action Reviews: A Simple Yet Powerful Tool

Three Steps to Make Training Stick

Ops 4.0--The Human Factor: A class size of 1

Creating a Learning and Development Strategy: The HR Business Partner's Guide to Developing People

How to Manage ‘Invisible Transitions’ in Leadership

What Happens if ‘Absorbing by Observation’ Disappears?

The Competencies and Constraints That Determine Leadership Success

How to Address Worker Skill Gaps in the Return to Work

How to Spot an Incompetent Leader

Tough times call for transformations in leadership development

Shifting Sands: Turn Uncertainty Into Action or Lose Relevance

How to Develop Your Leadership Style

Why You Should Invest in Unconventional Talent

The CFO’s role in capability building

Why Do Some People Succeed after Failing, While Others Continue to Flounder?

Developing Future-Ready Skills With Peer Coaching

What You’re Getting Wrong About Professional Development

Hard measurement of Soft Skills

PIPs Are Pink Slips -- Development Is How Employees Improve

Here’s What Learning to Juggle Does to Your Brain

Why rigor is the key ingredient to develop leaders

The Business Case for Curiosity

Building a culture of learning at work

How to Build Expertise in a New Field

The most fundamental skill: Intentional learning and the career advantage

 Here’s a simple way to boost your learning from videos: the “prequestion”

Designing Results-Oriented Leadership Development Programmes

To lead in the post-crisis tomorrow, put leadership and capabilities in place today

6 Developmental Conversations Bosses Should Have with their New Managers

The Skills Leaders Need at Every Level

How to Learn from a Global Life

Leadership Development: It Isn't All About You