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Creativity for Success
Creativity and innovation are important keys to success in today’s rapidly changing world. Process improvement, problem solving, recruiting, retaining and motivating employees, decision making, dealing with limited resources, satisfying customers,...
Dump Your Speeches For Leadership Talks
PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to...
Leadership Lessons Learned The Hard Way, Part I
This widely circulated after-action report prepared by a 1stSgt Paul Berry, USMC following Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 offers priceless leadership advice for business owners and managers. While much of this may seem obscure or even irrelevant...
Peggy Smedley of Start Magazine to Address PRONTO North America Users Conference
Peggy Smedley is the editor of Start Magazine and will be addressing the first annual PRONTO North America Users Conference on Thursday, May 5th. Smedley was recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal and authored Mending Manufacturing, How...
THE QUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP
Are you a leader of men (and women)? At least, do you believe that you have leadership potential? Do you WANT to be a leader, or a follower? If you want to be a "'great' leader of men", here are a few thoughts on the qualities needed. When we...
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Why On-Line Leadership Development Can’t Deliver Sustainable Improved Performance
On-line learning has captured an ever-increasing percentage of the training dollars from many companies including public schools and universities. For some cognitive skills such as computer training and understanding the fundamentals of World History, this makes sense. However, e-learning specifically on-line learning is not the way to go if the organization or an individual truly wants sustainable change through leadership development.
First, what is leadership? The answer to this question is a varied as the autumn colors. Within my practice, I define leadership as the ability to secure results within clearly articulated core values. This definition works for individuals to large organizations and from young to old. Also, to be an effective leader requires extensive development of interpersonal or what some still refer to as “soft skills.”
To be able to get results requires that you as an individual understand and can relate to others. Even if it is just one individual attempting to improve her or his leadership skills, the individual needs to be able to practice those skills and receive immediate feedback.
Sitting in front of a desk and typing responses onto a computer screen is not interactive feedback and lacks the opportunities to further develop those critical soft skills. Remember what makes human behavior human is we are human and subject to immediate and unpredictable change.
For example, as a leader, I am trying to secure a specific result from a fellow co-worker or team member. All my attempts
to communicate positively and respectfully through e-mail and telephone have failed. This means I still do not have the desired result. I must now meet that person, face to face, and communicate my intention. I may have learned all the cognitive aspects of non-verbal communication as well as neuro-linguistic programming from a computer, but until I actually confront a real person who has the potential of changing the interaction with an unplanned response. I must be able to use my intuitive sense to meet and work with that individual.
Leadership courses delivered by computers through the Internet fail to infuse the intuitive sense that we accumulate as our experiences grow. Given enough information, what we know as adults is that sense of intuition is usually validated.
Research suggest that the best learning environment for leadership or any other subject matter is one where face to face is blended with technology such as video and Internet. If leadership is all about the effective use of interpersonal skills, then how can such an impersonal tool even an intelligent one develop leadership?
Copyright 2005(c) Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S.
About the author:
Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S. doubles results for people and business within 30 to 180 days. If improving your results is a goal, then visit www.processspecialist.comor email info@processspecialist.com or call 219.759.5601.
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