Leadership Capability
Leadership development keeps training the wrong half
Most leadership programmes train skills and behaviours. They skip the half that determines whether any of it holds under pressure: who the leader actually is.
Inside-out
Leadership Capability
Inside-out: what the research says about lasting leadership change
External training and coaching are necessary but not sufficient. A decade of doctoral research shows lasting leadership change requires identity integration, not just skill acquisition.
Leadership Capability
What a decade of research changed our minds about
A decade of research and practice forced us to abandon several comfortable assumptions about leadership development. Here are the ones we got wrong, and what we revised.
Leadership Capability
Can character be developed? What the research suggests
Many organisations quietly treat character as fixed and train only skills. The evidence is more hopeful and more demanding: judgement, integrity and composure under pressure can develop, but not through instruction.