Learning Tactics Inventory: Participant Survey and Workbook

Background

Ten years of research at the Center for Creative Leadership has demonstrated that successful and effective leaders develop critical skills from their experiences in the workplace. Effective senior managers learn much of what they need to know through mastering challenging work situations, for example, managing turnarounds and startups, participating in important projects, and making successful transitions into major new roles with increased accountability and responsibility.

Given that individuals learn from experience, what are the key factors in that learning? Who learns and who does not learn? We have discovered that there are at least three key factors in learning from experience: opportunity, willingness to take the opportunity ...