{"id":674,"date":"2016-09-13T07:26:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T07:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isadviser.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2017-04-25T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T12:52:14","slug":"leadership-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isadviser.com\/en\/leadership-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Leadership Training Fails\u2014and What to Do About It ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Corporations are victims of the great training robbery. American companies spend enormous amounts of money on employee training and education\u2014$160 billion in the United States and close to $356 billion globally in 2015 alone\u2014but they are not getting a good return on their investment. For the most part, the learning doesn\u2019t lead to better organizational performance, because people soon revert to their old ways of doing things.<\/div>\n

Consider the micro-electronic products division (MEPD) at a company we\u2019ll call SMA, which one of us studied. SMA invested in a training program to improve leadership and organizational effectiveness. MEPD was one of the first business units to implement it, and virtually every salaried employee in the division attended.<\/p>\n

Participants described the program as very powerful. For a whole week they engaged in numerous tasks that required teamwork, and they received real-time feedback on both individual and group behavior. The program ended with a plan for taking the learning back into the organization. Pre- and post-training surveys suggested that participants\u2019 attitudes had changed.<\/p>\n

A couple of years later, when a new general manager came in to lead the division, he requested an assessment of the costly program. As it turned out, managers thought little had changed as a result of the training, even though it had been inspiring at the time. They found it impossible to apply what they had learned about teamwork and collaboration, because of a number of managerial and organizational barriers: a lack of strategic clarity, the previous GM\u2019s top-down style, a politically charged environment, and cross-functional conflict. \u201c[The previous GM] had a significant impact on our organization, with all of us reflecting him in our managerial style,\u201d a member of the division\u2019s senior team explained during an interview. \u201cWe are all more authoritarian than before.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a change strategy, training clearly had not…<\/p>\n

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\nBy Michael Beer, Magnus Finnstr\u00f6m & Derek Schrader<\/span>
\nFrom the October 2016 Issue<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n
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