(6.04) A Kaleidoscope, Not a Recipe: Systemic Leadership in Polycrisis

About this episode

The episode discusses the gap between leadership training and its practical application in organizations, featuring insights from Liz Skelton.

Send us a message! Something has seemed fairly obvious in the field of leadership development for a while now: the gap between what people learn and what they're able to apply when they return to their organisations. It shows up as disillusionment, stalled change efforts, and the recurring question of why things that seem so clear in a programme setting become so resistant in practice. It's a gap Liz Skelton has been sitting with, and working on, for over two decades. Join KG and Paul as they...

People in this episode

Hosts: KG Butler, Paul Garcia

Topics covered

• leadership development
• systemic leadership
• polycrisis
• organizational change
• disillusionment

Keywords

• leadership
• development
• application
• change efforts
• disillusionment

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