"Given the increasingly competitive economic environment and the significant human and financial capital expended on leadership development, it is not only fair but necessary for those charged with running companies to ask: Does any of this work? And if so, how?"

1. What development activities have the greatest impact on increasing executive effectiveness?

2. How can leaders achieve positive long term changes in their behaviour at work?   

Their research reveals that:
 

- For most leaders, the challenge is not understanding the practice of leadership. It is practicing their understanding of leadership.

- The degree of follow-up correlated directly with leadership effectiveness - regardless of culture. In fact, continual contact with colleagues was so effective that it could succeed in improving leadership effectiveness even without a leadership development program.
 

In essence... leadership is a contact sport. 
 

Scroll down to the bottom of the page where you can download the full pdf article.