Session Focus: Open dialogue with CLO/CTO/CDO peers about current gaps in addressing Top CEO Concerns preparing managers for modern leadership challenges and exploring innovative solutions.

Skills-First Integrated Talent Practices

1. Leadership Development Programs. What’s Missing?
2. Skills Need a Strategy. Where to Start?
3. Accelerating Diverse Leaders: Leveraging ERGs to Cultivate High-Potential Talent

This roundtable brings together talent development leaders to discuss how to prepare high-potential employees for leadership roles better. We will examine gaps in current acceleration programs, share innovative approaches that rapidly build leadership capabilities, and explore ways to maximize the potential of rising talent.

Questions:

1. Where are we falling short in accelerating the development of our high-potential talent?
2. How can we improve the assessment of leadership potential and readiness in high potentials?
3. What key leadership mindsets and capabilities are overlooked in many acceleration programs?
4. How could we better customize development for each high potential’s strengths and growth needs?
5. What kind of experiential learning opportunities best accelerate leadership development?
6. How can we leverage stretch assignments, special projects, job rotations, and coaching?
7. What innovative program formats, tools, or delivery methods could we employ?
8. How do we measure the impact of high-potential development and calibrate acceleration approaches?

 

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ELE’s Wisconsin cohort for Learning & HR Executives is a year-long learning process through face-to-face collaboration and networking with other local heads of Learning and talent Development. Each senior leader is encouraged to bring a peer from their organization that contributes to, engages, or supports the Learning and talent spectrum for their workplace.

Our quarterly cohort exchanges use the following design elements:

1. Sharing practical case studies aligned to business needs
2. Identifying key issues and developing insights and solutions
3. Canvassing learning industry trends applied at ELE members’ workplace