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tasked to ‘‘creatively solve pro blems ,’’ and (3) h aving to ‘‘persuade
senior manager s to ta ke dif ficul t acti ons.’’
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There are two impor ta nt takeaways from these two research
studies. The first is that o n-the -job develo pment experience s tend
to be far more relevan t and a pplic able for bui lding leadership com-
petence t han are form al training progr ams. Therefore, i f you are
going to invest money in any singl e training activity, co nside r a
program t hat shows manager s how to stag e on-the-job deve lopme nt
experiences to allow their direct reports to extract the greatest ben-
efit from these experiences. ...