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By applying methodologies developed by data scientists to questions commonly facing leadership scholars, this paper highlights the power of leveraging multiple disciplines in the pursuit of new insights.
Uncover 50 years of leadership wisdom in CCL's new book, Ideas into Action: CCL's Research and Innovation Journey. From on-the-job learning to Al-driven development, explore revolutionary insights for today's leaders.
The study compares a new statistical model for scoring 360-degree feedback assessments to traditional methods, finding no significant advantages, but suggesting potential areas for future research.
Discover the secret weapon of top-performing virtual and hybrid teams! New research reveals how balancing unity and diversity can skyrocket remote collaboration. Learn more about this CCL study in this Organizational Science paper.
This study explores leadership competency ambidexterity's impact on derailment risk across cultures. Findings show high congruence between current and needed competencies reduces derailment, moderated by collectivism and assertiveness in uncertain environments.
Explore how the innovative Leadership Arena-Reputation-Identity model extends our understanding of 360 leadership ratings and their relationship to leader effectiveness in this recent Journal of Applied Psychology paper.
New research reveals how changes in income over time predict core self-evaluations and career outcomes. Dynamic income mobility, not just current earnings, plays a crucial role in shaping professional trajectories.
Is PsyCap advancing workplace psychology or repackaging existing concepts? Explore this comprehensive bibliometric analysis addressing key criticisms by examining PsyCap's theoretical foundations, methodological approaches, and scholarly networks.
SHRM Article Highlights Bereavement Research Presented By CCL Researcher Diane Bergeron, PhD, at SHRM Annual Conference.
Current and former CCL researchers frame gender differences in leadership development within CCL’s Lessons of Experience framework.
Unlock leadership potential with Better Conversations Every Day™: 99% satisfaction, 100% applicability. Discover the transformative impact of the program, peer connection, and expert coaching on listening, empowerment, and feedback skills.
The International Leadership Association and the Center for Creative Leadership are pleased to co-sponsor the annual Kenneth E. Clark Student Research Award to recognize outstanding unpublished papers by undergraduate and graduate students.
New survey data shows over 90% of leaders improved across key aspects of leadership effectiveness through CCL executive coaching.
Videoconferencing is now prominent in many daily routines. In a paper published in The Leadership Quarterly, Andy Loignon and his co-authors examine how videoconferences provide a window into our status.
CCL Researcher Diane Bergeron joins in calling for more gender-inclusive leadership in business schools.
In a keynote at the Mayo Clinic, CCL Researcher Marcia A. Dawkins offers a kaleidoscope of well-researched narratives that help participants reframe their experiences and combat burnout.
CCL researcher Marcia A. Dawkins moderates a panel for UnidosUS 2023 Conference, “Untangling Racism's Effects on Health.”
The chapter uses Leading for Organizational Impact Program (LOI) to highlight the use of multiple assessments to help leaders grow beyond their current capabilities.
CCL Researcher Diane Bergeron joins in calling for more gender-inclusive leadership in business schools.
Leaders have spoken: CCL programs deliver transformative leadership development. This infographic showcases key metrics, illuminating leaders translation of learning into practice and their reflections on what changes they’ve made since the program.
Research Insights Papers
Discover essential leadership capabilities for addressing our interconnected global crises. Explore cutting-edge research on complex problem-solving, collaboration, and transformative leadership in this thought-provoking paper on navigating a polycrisis.
Utilizing new technology and analytic approaches for conversational analyses, we present results from a high-fidelity behavioral measure of leadership (HiFi) in CCL's Leading for Organizational Impact (LOI) program.
Bring organizational cultural transformation to life using our REAL model. Unlock innovation, enhance employee engagement, cultivate fairness, and collaborate for a better future.
Research reveals leader listening means going beyond merely exhibiting ‘good’ listening behaviors - employees feel listened to when leaders take action on their ideas and suggestions.
Data from 43,393 leaders indicate that the future of work has arrived, bringing challenges such as remote work isolation, leadership burnout, and the need to do more with less while engaging employees.
Learn about several widely held myths regarding teamwork as well as a framework for moving beyond such misperceptions towards a clearer understanding of effective teams.
This paper presents a pathway for how leadership development can lead to larger scale impact. We include impact examples and provide a typology of stories for communicating complex impact pathways.
Uncover some of the mechanisms through which leadership development might contribute to invigorating organizations’ talent attraction and retention efforts.
Learn how organizations made sense of EDI in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and how leaders handle risks of moving from cosmetic diversity to inclusive conversation and committed action.
Learn how challenging the assumption that team members experience similar levels of psychological safety can improve our understanding of team effectiveness.
Leverage evidence-based practices to accelerate leader development at scale and unlock the collective potential of your workforce.
Learn how to make sense of the crises leaders and workers are experiencing as the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on.
How do the conversations you have with yourself influence how you lead?
New research helps leaders and organizations better understand the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the workplace.
Are you interested in building resilience or know of leaders who might be? Learn how in this Research Insights paper.
This paper introduces CCL’s framework for measuring and maximizing the impact of leadership development. The framework includes the type of impact that can be expected and measured as well as key factors that influence impact.
Blog
This post explores how popular TV shows like Succession, Star Trek, and Ted Lasso reveal valuable lessons about leadership transitions, cultural alignment, and strategies for succession planning in organizations.
Swifties: Bridging Divides in a Fragmented World By: David Altman, Ph.D. and Lauren Blackwell, M.Ed. This blog is written for educators, organizational leaders, management consultants, community organizers, and others interested in innovative leadership and community-building. We wrote this—inspired by our own experiences at Taylor Swift concerts—to nudge people to have conversations and build deeper relationships around shared identities and values, whether at work, in local communities, or on larger platforms. Taylor Swift is an acclaimed singer-songwriter, successful businesswoman, and cultural icon. She has a massive global fan base – nearly 300 million followers on Instagram and over 77 million followers...
Discover how CCL enhanced learning transfer and leadership growth by shifting the dialogue from challenges to commitments in a case study featuring a leadership development program for Vermont principals.
In this blog post, we emphasize the value of learning from leaders who report significant improvement and those who don’t report improvement in leadership effectiveness following a development program.
This blog post highlights the impactful role of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and young professionals in driving organizational change. It details the journey of a mentorship program from an ERG initiative to a global, organization-wide program, emphasizing the power of collective effort, data-informed strategies, and strategic scaling.
Using a recent high-profile incident in a professional soccer match, we discuss the importance of leader listening during times of crisis.
This blog post explores the role Psychological Capital (PsyCap) plays as a critical element to organization's successful coaching initiatives.
This blog post explores a human-centered approach to evaluating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) programs that prioritizes participant voices, challenging traditional metrics and fostering genuine change.
Latinas Leading Change: A Case Study of Leadership Development for Community Impact By: Elizabeth Brondos Fry and Michelle Schneider At the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), we use the Societal Impact Framework[i] to design leadership development programs that will not only support individual leaders, but also improve the well-being of their communities and the world itself. One program that exemplifies impact at multiple levels, positively benefiting both individual Latina leaders as well as their broader communities, is the Latina Success Leadership Program (LSLP), developed in partnership with MANA de San Diego. In this blog, we describe and examine the LSLP...
With this year’s football season about to kickoff, this blog discusses findings related to the “too much talent effect” within the National Football League and the practical implications for today’s leaders.
Leading with Vision: The Drive to Create Organizational Change By: Sol Bulkin and Ezekiel Welsh Going through a leadership development program can be like adding tools to your toolbox. In a home improvement project, you might use the same toolbox to upgrade your bedroom or to improve the foundation of the home. When organizations invest in their leader’s development, they hope they can leverage the tools they gain to not only positively impact themselves and their immediate teams, but also the organization. At the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), we expect leadership development programs to impact individual leaders, their teams,...
Running a Tight Ship: The Importance of Leader Listening By: Andy Loignon and Diane Bergeron A year ago, for one of us (Andy) the news of a large shipping vessel, the Ever Forward, running aground in the Chesapeake Bay struck close to home (literally and figuratively). For days the vessel remained wedged on the murky bottom of the bay despite various attempts to dredge and propel it free.[1] It was only after nearly five weeks, through the combined efforts of several tugboats, barges, and an unusually high tide, that the ship floated free.[i] What made this event more interesting, and...
Guardrails for Leaders with Employee Mental Health By: Jean Leslie and Naomi Leslie, M.D. The COVID-19 pandemic, political turmoil, productivity paranoia, and economic stressors have heighted the awareness of workplace mental health. Simply asking your direct reports, “Are you okay?” can imply something is wrong, and that, as their boss, you are equipped to help them with all aspects of their lives. In many organizations, interest in employee well-being extends beyond the boss-direct report relationship. Bi-weekly leadership team meetings, for example, begin by going around and answering the question, “How are your teams doing?” Though never explicitly stated, the expectation...
What Hockey Teams Can Teach Leaders By: Andy Loignon, David Altman & Martin Schneider Each spring, the top 16 of the 32 teams from the National Hockey League (NHL) vie for one of the most celebrated trophies in professional sports – The Stanley Cup. Teams who win “The Cup” get their names engraved along with past winners and each player gets to spend one day with the trophy. Hockey is a physically demanding sport. It requires honed skills, combined with endurance, strength and mental toughness, in every game for 82 games, and that’s just to make the playoffs. To win...
Put Me In, Coach: Supporting Developing Leaders Matters More Than You Think By: Katelyn McCoy & Elizabeth Brondos Fry Encouraging leaders to attend a leadership development program is a lot like sending them off to a training camp. Athletes typically attend training camps hoping to hone new skills, but if you’ve ever participated in a sport, you’ll know the real development happens when they return. It’s necessary to practice those new skills, especially during competitions, games, or matches, to ensure they’ll stick. In fact, athletes who lose out on the chance to use their skills in the context in which...
With this year’s World Cup tournament fast approaching, I discuss how soccer teams can succumb to the “too much talent effect” and what that means for team development (and this year’s competitors).
Leading teams can be challenging. In this blog, learn about the questions CCL clients are asking about their teams and the answers our expert is providing.
If you are trying to measure something, it is critically important to think about how you will use those measures.
We often use measurement scales in survey research without knowing how they were developed. Because of this, we may either be missing important data, or we may be drawing inaccurate conclusions.
A case study on an in-depth analysis of corporate messages and motives on the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade.