Leadership in Action: Class Acts: When Leaders are Teachers, Good Things Happen

ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS

BD's experience has shown that several things are essential for applying the leaders-as-teachers approach systematically, thereby ensuring its practicality and effectiveness.

To ensure that the leaders-as-teachers approach is used consistently, it must be placed within a larger context of learning. When BD University was created, just over three years ago, the leaders-as-teachers approach was made its cornerstone. BD University is international in scope, and includes four major elements: a leadership college, a business skills and operational effectiveness college, a career assessment and development college, and a U.S. sales college. These colleges combined offer more than thirty programs, which are all taught by BD people. ...