LeadershipHQ Magazine 3rd Edition September Issue | Page 31

“…what you see
with your eyes is not
necessarily real. My
enemy is, among other
things, the me inside me”
~ Haruki Murakami

Leadership training providers need to
lift their game - and so do leaders!
By Jason Jones
Provision of leadership training:
big. Demand for leadership training and development: huge. Is this
similar to commercial provision of
fast, junk food and our appetite for
it? Are we corporately obese from
consumption of mass-produced,
easily available, well advertised
and marketed, ‘trendy’, but ultimately unhealthy leadership food

that lacks balance and real nutritional value?
When you last spent money developing leaders in your organisation,
how did you measure return on
investment? Did you just need rid
of un-allocated training budget at
financial year-end? Did the provider of the ‘training’ or ‘development’

actually pay attention and understand your organisation’s problem,
or deliver a package tweaked to
make it ‘fit’? Are you sure you understood the problem you were
trying to fix?
Leadership research: similarly vast.
The golden chalice - to be the next
“Kotter”, “Drucker”, or “Schein”. I’m
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