Talent Management - March 2010 - (Page 16) The Classroom in Context Allison Rossett and Deborah Pettry The current economic crisis asks more of leaders — and for more of us to act like leaders. The demands won’t decrease when things improve, however. Today’s workplace demands a leadership development approach that maximizes classroom learning with the strategic use of technology. study conducted between 2007 and 2009 by Jean Leslie at the Center for Creative Leadership found a glaring gap between the leadership skills organizations have now and the ones they will need in five years. In a different study, published in 2009, Pearson and Executive Development Associates reported that 57 percent of business leaders perceived their leadership talent pipeline as the same or weaker today than it was two years ago, and 75 percent said increasing leadership bench strength will be a top business priority for the next two to three years. Not long ago, this requirement for more and better leaders would have generated classes, long and short, good and bad. Now, to assure these critical competences, talent professionals can honor the classroom while looking beyond it, leveraging technology to deliver leadership wisdom where people are, when they need it, in bite-sized morsels. Catherine Lombardozzi, a manager of best practices for Vanguard University at financial organization Vanguard, said, “We are creating much more learning content that is very short and to the point. For example, our training on performance management and compensation is being restructured as a set of short e-learning modules supported by links to related online content and some classroom learning.” Brian Heath, Amway’s learning executive, said the company’s North American leader development also is taking a new direction. Some 2,500 distributors will be given an Apple iPod Touch loaded with custom support applications, including the e-commerce catalog for ordering, a business management tool to check monthly team sales volume and a sales support tool to coach conversations with customers about nutrition. March 2010 talent management magazine www.talentmgt.com http://www.talentmgt.com Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Talent Management - March 2010 Talent Management - March 2010 Editor’s Letter Contents Human Performance Leading Edge Learning Connections The Classroom in Context Recession as Litmus Test On-Boarding: More Than Just an Office Tour Compensation Conversations Do Your Leaders Have Personality? 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