How Aversive Leadership Impacts Employee Proactivity and Moral Disengagement

Understanding the relationship between aversive leadership and its outcomes is crucial for organisations aiming to foster a positive work environment and promote employee well-being and productivity.  Research looking at the relationships between aversive leadership, moral disengagement, and proactive personality traits. In organisations leaders tend to establish behavioural standards by modelling behaviour and enforcing them through […]

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How to Make Leadership Training more Cross-Culturally Relevant

Developing leadership development and training programmes based on the principles from the cognitive process model may produce more effective results in mixed cultural contexts. As the world has become a lot smaller and more connected with the development of global digital communication and work tools, one of the problems many leaders and managers face is […]

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How New Leaders Emerge and Form Their Identity

In order to grow and maintain their performance organisations need to produce new leaders on a fairly consistent basis. As less experienced team members step into key roles and form their identities as leaders, they are essentially going through a process of self-discovery. Leadership identity develops as individuals step into the leadership role, and that […]

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Why Leadership Development Courses Do More Harm Than Good

Leadership development programmes are probably one of the most popular forms of development for aspiring and active leaders. Their aim is to make leaders more conscious of the impact they can have and equip them with the tools of leadership. A recent study examining the impact these programmes have has discovered that the programmes may […]

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Paradoxical leader behaviours – New podcast – Episode 9

  Transcript   Today’s organisations are increasingly facing environments characterised by complexity, volatility and uncertainty, placing extra demands on leaders to adopt holistic thinking approaches in order to meet organisational and individual needs. Leadership approaches are shifting, and organisations arguably require even more creativity than before. In this podcast Sarah and David explore a new […]

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Practice intelligence and the problem with Business School learning

Why management and leadership development should be focussing on practice intelligence.   Fourteen years ago this year Henry Mintzberg published his book ‘Managers not MBAs: A hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development‘, in which Mintzberg challenged the prevailing view that the recipient of the MBA was by default not only […]

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Leader’s individual differences and how they impact

The Oxford Review has just published a new special report looking at the individual differences between leaders and the impact of those differences on leadership outcomes. Keywords: leader, leadership, leadership development, individual differences, leadership capacities Special report Why look at individual differences? 65 researched differences between leaders How to get this special report   Special […]

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The essential guide to evidence-based leadership

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This weeks Briefings: Why introverts rarely emerge as leaders and The conditions for open innovation

This Week’s Research Briefings This week we sent out the following research briefings to our members: What creates the conditions for open innovation in an organisation Keywords: open innovation, innovation, external knowledge, knowledge management, collaboration, openness, learning, organisational flexibility, entrepreneurial orientation, technology, reward system, incentives   One of the hot topics at the moment is […]

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Leadership Development: Cultivating leader identity and capacity

Why cultivating leader identity and capacity is central to leadership development: A new paper just published has highlighted one of the current areas of focus of leadership development. The development of leader identity and why cultivating leader identity and capacity is at the crux of leadership development. Keywords: Leader identity, leadership development, leadership, leaders, leadership […]

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