Why Leadership Training Fails Tagged with: Leadership Training Table Of Contents 1"Why doesn't my leadership training seem to make a difference?"2"How can I keep my leadership training fresh?"3"Training my leaders is time and labor-intensive. How do I keep from being overwhelmed?"4Want to Create Better, More Effective Leaders? Leadership training takes many forms. With each, there are varying levels of challenge. From leadership style to training methods; even coaches lacking inspiration.Has your company invested in a Leadership Development or Training Program? If so, be aware of the common challenges faced when delivering and implementing it.Here are three questions we hear often:"Why doesn't my leadership training seem to make a difference?"If you don’t feel any difference in the outcome of your leadership training, it’s time to look at the core problems. Good leadership cannot be merely taught. It must be developed over time—and yes, through trial and error.For example, perhaps your in-person trainer was inspiring and motivated you to make a difference. But the energy levels disappeared when he or she did.Harvard Business Review cited an example of common problems with leadership training. One company changed little after an “inspiring” yet expensive and unsuccessful program. Their story is universal. The issues cited included:managerial and organizational barriersa lack of strategic clarityformer leadership hierarchya politically charged environmentcross-functional conflictsPeople had problems putting the advice into practice when it came to the daily grind. Leaders must know how to create behavioral change at a cultural level. A coach can be “inspirational” without giving actionable solutions. They'll also be soon forgotten after the training session ends."How can I keep my leadership training fresh?"The strategies for being a good leader cannot be memorized in a textbook. The skills need time to acquire.To do so, your leaders must stay engaged with their team at the ground level. Better leaders find out what isn’t working, and why.Do your leaders feel like training is a waste of time? Are they used to the same old rehashed methods of leadership programs, and craving something fresh? This is a common problem we see.Research proves that before real change can take place, organizations need “fertile soil." Think of training as "seeds" of intervention. They will only flourish if you have a foundation for behavioral change at the cultural level.Some issues to address:Are there communication problems within your managing departments?Is the soil of your company environment a “psychologically safe” climate?Does everyone, on any level, feel free to speak up?Making sure leadership training isn't the same-old. Leadership theory can be difficult to put into practice on a daily basis. To add to that, many topics have been re-hashed or repackaged so it's vital to keep the information both new and actionable.Remember that your leadership training only creates change if your senior leaders champion it. The company must seek fresh systems and courses that help sustain learning."Training my leaders is time and labor-intensive. How do I keep from being overwhelmed?"Being a successful leader is overwhelming; there’s often no way around it. But you can unload some of the burdens off of your own shoulders by utilizing resources available to you.Delegate training tasks. Hire HR Managers who can identify problems, and utilize solutions developed by professional leadership trainers. This way, you save time developing leadership training topics, creating lessons plans, making them relevant, delivering that training, and tracking compliance.Want to Create Better, More Effective Leaders?Effective leaders work on four core issues: Improving, Connecting with, Supporting and Motivating their people.A Better Leader is accessible, online leadership training, designed to remove the barriers to creating great leaders while focussing on those four core solutions. The training platform offers three year's worth of fresh and interesting leadership topics to keep your team motivated, including topics like managing change, unionization, morale, implicit bias, introverts and extroverts, time management and many many more.The A Better Leader system is designed for you to implement with ease. Robust, compelling, and immediately actionable, the topics are fresh and focus on the present needs of today’s corporate environment.To find out more about how A Better Leader works, visit us today for a free 30-day trial. About the Author Walter Orechwa Walter is Director of IRI's Digital Workplace Solutions Group, and the founder of A Better Leader. Walter provides expert advice, highly effective employee communication resources and ongoing learning opportunities for Human Resources and Labor Relations professionals.
About the Author Walter Orechwa Walter is Director of IRI's Digital Workplace Solutions Group, and the founder of A Better Leader. Walter provides expert advice, highly effective employee communication resources and ongoing learning opportunities for Human Resources and Labor Relations professionals.
About the Author Walter Orechwa Walter is Director of IRI's Digital Workplace Solutions Group, and the founder of A Better Leader. Walter provides expert advice, highly effective employee communication resources and ongoing learning opportunities for Human Resources and Labor Relations professionals.
