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The great training robbery

VIDEO | 1 hour

Talent leaders and HR professionals joined this webinar held in partnership with IEDP to share insights into the things to do and the things to avoid to maximise the impact of their executive development spend.

Five years on from the incendiary HBR article, ‘The Great Training Robbery’, this webinar provided a frank and progressive conversation around the organisational impact of executive development.

Drawing on 15 years of research into the impact of executive development at the organisational level, the key message is ‘buyer beware’ - nothing works in all contexts.

“By investing in training that is not likely to yield a good return, senior executives and their HR professionals are complicit in what we have come to call the ‘great training robbery.’”  Harvard Business Review, 2016