Aligning Corporate Learning With Strategy

Too many corporate learning and development programs focus on the wrong things. A better approach to developing a company’s leadership and talent pipeline involves designing learning programs that link to the organization’s strategic priorities.

Shlomo Ben-Hur, Bernard Jaworski, and David Gray

FALL 2015

Survey after survey of CEOs points to a shortage of leadership and management talent as a leading concern.¹ In an era when the capabilities of knowledge workers, not technology or capital, is often the key constraint on growth (particularly in emerging markets), this is hardly a surprise. The mystery is how ineffectual the response has been. It’s not that companies aren’t willing to invest in developing ...