Leadership for the future – Improving existing management training for better leadership development.

Are leaders born or are they made? – The question continues to dominate the study of leadership development but the conclusion remains elusive - it is widely acknowledged that no leader worth their salt can be continually effective without evaluating and developing their skills on an ongoing basis. Effective management training in today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world is a double edged sword - if you are not into it, one end of it will pierce through you and if you are into it and do not know how to do it right, the other end will get through you. Organizations today talk about many workforce centric challenges, but perhaps one that concerns them like no other is the mandate to nurture lasting growth and development across the employee base and handle the myriad roadblocks that make development of a robust leadership pipeline increasingly difficult.

This paper examines the existing concept and practice of management training for better leadership development in the public sector and recommends improvements to ensure greater benefits from management training interventions for leaders at all levels. The key idea is to move away from traditional classroom training, to multi-faceted leadership development initiatives. It is Aon Hewitt’s strong belief that this can greatly help leaders enhance and apply their knowledge, skills and abilities and play a pivotal role in translating visionary strategies into meaningful actions.

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