1. Corporate Research Forum Leadership development –
where is the edge?
Tuesday 23rd November 2010

2. Agenda 09.30 Introduction & some elementary leadership questions
10.00 Group Discussion
11.00 TEA & COFFEE BREAK
11.15 Driving Business Performance Through Strategic Talent, Stephen Dando
12.00 A Scientific Approach to Leadership and Leadership Development for Superior Performance, David Burnham
12.45 LUNCH
13.30 The Leadership Journey – Growing Leaders at Specsavers, Jonathan Crookall
14.15 Driving Growth Through Leadership, Justin Dunn
15.00 Questions & Discussion
15.30 SUMMARY & CLOSE

3. Some Documents
2009 CCL Study: The Leadership Gap: What you need, and don’t have, when it comes to leadership talent
infed, Classical Leadership – good overall summary of leadership “approaches”
The Work Foundation, Exceeding Expectation: the principles of outstanding leadership
CIPD, Leadership: an overview – John Adair – Simplistic
The Ashridge Journal, A perspective on leadership: Towards a relational leadership framework
McKinsey Quarterly, How centred leaders achieve extraordinary results
nowhere, Evocative Leadership: Calling forward potential (workshop)
The old stuff is the best! Mintzberg (‘The Manager’s Job: Folklore and Fact’) and Kotter (‘What Leaders Really Do’) in Harvard Business Review on Leadership
Bob Johansen (from the Institute for the Future), Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World

4. Initial Thoughts What is on your agenda? 1. This is an industry Books
Articles
‘Research’
Courses
Opinions
Not all of it is useful and much of it is of unsubstantiated opinion
2. Fads & Fashions?
Coaching
Competencies
3600 feedback
3. What is the difference between management and leadership and does it matter? (See Kotter)
4. What is different for today’s leaders?
Rapid change
New technology
Constant scrutiny
Short termism
International
5. This is not one thing!
Vision
Strategy
People
Resources
Decisions
Change
Results etc
What is on your agenda?

5. Today’s Programme
Stephen Dando – fully integrated with business process improvement and an over approach to Talent.
David Burnham – large database; motives not behaviour. It is data-driven.
Jonathan Crookall – Leadership Development in an entrepreneurial culture.
Justin Dunn – a top-to-bottom approach in a change management situation.
Your role:
Challenge
Support
Provide alternatives
Offer insights
Give examples of your success
No answers but an opportunity to hear, debate, question, reflect and synthesise.

6. Group Discussion
Define an audit tool for effective leadership development. What source data do you need, what approach to learning do you take and how do you evaluate? What is the learning theory upon which your activities are based? Define a framework that would be suitable for assessing the contribution of today’s scheduled content. The CRF checklist (on the back of the sheet) may be helpful.
Please complete this work in an hour.

7. CRF’s forthcoming events
DATE
EVENT
9 Feb.
Diversity & Business Performance
Research Briefing Workshop (Trinity House)
2 March
How to Conduct Organisation Reviews
Workshop (Trinity House)
12 & 13 April
OD Large Group Intervention Methodology
Residential Masterclass (Wokefield Park)