Netting the Best Leadership Training

“Leadership” has become the most overused word of the 21st century. Primary school children are Leadership Trainingrated on their leadership skills in their report cards. Non profit volunteers are assessed on their leadership abilities when they are recruited to serve. And of course, in the business world, there are massive lineups for leadership training programs at the world’s most venerable educational institutions.

100 Texas principals are in the queue for the Harvard Business School’s Leadership Training. They are being sent by an Austin-based non profit chaired by former Lt. Governor of Texas, Bill Ratliff. He explains, “This is an exciting, historic opportunity for public school principals and public charter school administrators from across the state of Texas. By investing in the leadership of our schools, we will realize the positive impact of the Harvard training in day-to-day school management, in campus morale, and, most importantly, in the classroom.”*

Yale Divinity School offers a “Leadership in Public Ministry” course. Oxford University’s growing portfolio of Leadership Programs for China** offers a range of programs that focus on key priorities such as balancing economic growth, the environment and social development.

As you can see, when you search for leadership training, you cast a very wide net. It’s conceivable that it will take you so long to sift through the 20 million returns that your “leadership training” search delivers, you won’t have time to actually undertake the training. How will you decide what to keep in your net and what to toss back?

We suggest that you narrow your search by adding a qualifier to your “leadership training” search term. Googling “Leadership training for executives” delivers one fortieth of the number of returns that “leadership training” does, so you will reduce your array of choices to about half a million.  ”Leadership training for entrepreneurs” delivers one fiftieth of 20 million, or about 300,000 returns. Searching for “leadership training for e-marketers” really narrows the field. It delivers a much more manageable “mere” 300 returns.

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*Source: March 26, 2008, Austin Business Journal
**Source: oxfordjournals.org

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