{"id":13534,"date":"2018-02-28T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=13534"},"modified":"2018-02-28T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:37:00","slug":"why-do-leadership-development-programs-mbas-appear-to-be-ineffectual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=13534","title":{"rendered":"Why do leadership development programs \/ MBAs appear to be ineffectual?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do leadership development programs \/ MBAs appear to be ineffectual? Its now proven \ud83d\ude42 Amanda Nimon-Peters from Ashridge Hult MBA suggests that sharing leadership concepts on MBA programs does not change leadership behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>So Ashridge developed a bespoke leadership behaviour course as part of the MBA. Even then virtually for 650 MBA students no change was realised after 3 months and for 18% no change at all after 8 months.<\/p>\n<p>She concludes this leadership programs must focus on<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; behaviour development<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; behaviour development must have a dedicated faculty<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; change the unit of assessment behaviour NOT knowledge<\/p>\n<p>I have taught on the Ashridge MBA program. In addition the icebreaker faculty have found the the issue to address is<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; board members don&#8217;t discuss the right things,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; not enough human and at a too higher level<\/p>\n<p>The Icebreaker transformation \/ turnaround faculty &#8211; has to deliver results and cash in weeks, or these businesses would have gone bust.<\/p>\n<p>Without a change in behaviours or thinking nothing changes?<\/p>\n<p>www.winningthinking.uk captures this, we are already getting some great engagement on more MBA programs, automotive, industry, venture capital, logistics and even F1!<\/p>\n<p>have a great day, Tom<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gtxucS5<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do leadership development programs \/ MBAs appear to be  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}