Leadership Training

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eBooks and Guides


Guide

NZ Horticulture: Addressing Critical Labour Challenges

In this guide, you’ll learn the latest thinking about adult learning and why most training fails. You’ll get ideas about leadership training based on the three key solutions for horticulture - training that is fast, focused, and frequent.

eBook

Culture of Contribution

Dr. Mike Ashby looks at the value of contribution as an organizing concept for a high performance culture, extending the familiar notion of engagement into something more centered on the mutually beneficial relationship between employee and organization.

Guide

Top 5 Critical People Challenges Construction Leaders Can Resolve

In this easy to read and practical guide, you’ll discover how you can develop your managers year-round while on the job, overcome barriers to change in your organization, why the old models of training don’t work and a new solution to the challenge of training and development without affecting timelines.

Quick Guide

Why Training Fails and What Works

The majority of training in today’s organizations is ineffective and the purpose, timing, and content of the training are flawed. This quick guide highlights research data that shows what’s not working and the differences between traditional and best practice models that organizations can adopt to see measurable performance improvements and improve return on investment.

eBook

Why most Leadership Training Fails and what Actually Works

Lifting your organization’s capability has never been more important than right now. Effective leadership training for your operational managers is the key to sustained change that delivers better business results.​ For people leaders who want to grow the business and business leaders who want to grow their people, this eBook reveals a leadership training model that actually works.

 
 

Quizzes and Worksheets


 
 

Worksheet

Management Training Plan

Are you looking for a more effective way to train your managers? Download our two-page Management Training Plan to get a clear roadmap for driving transformation in your organization.

Quiz

The Top 10 Quiz

Find out how your team rates on the key characteristics of a high-performance team. You’ll get a snapshot of how your team is performing and where to focus to get better performance. The quiz will only take a few minutes.

 

Articles, Research and Whitepapers


Article summary

Fast Learners: The Evolution of The Leader Coach

Dr. Mike Ashby comments on some of the key concepts in a recent HBR article, The Leader as Coach. He shares highlights about what coaching is, common mistakes, challenges, and how to overcome them.

Whitepaper

The Future of Leadership Development

Understand the major changes happening in the learning and development industry. Dr. Mike Ashby summarises what Harvard Business Review research recommends and why the traditional leadership training learning model is broken.