The quality of leadership in organisations accounts for between 20-45% of differences in company results
Clearly leadership matters!
Research shows that leadership development boosts morale and improves retention
Research also shows that investing in leadership development improves bottom line results
Leadership development is the single most important program of any army - Leiutenant General Frederic J Brown
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Australian Leadership Development Centre

Practical Leadership Development & Guidance You Can Trust

Are you responsible for strengthening leadership in your organisation? Or do you want enhance your own impact as a leader?

As Australia’s only educational organisation exclusively devoted to leadership, the Australian Leadership Development Centre is trusted source of guidance and development to leaders across the country.

Our distinctive services help leaders:

  • Cut through the unsubstantiated fads and pop-psychology that dominates the market, and connect with evidence-based, practical knowledge on what it means to lead well, and how leaders can go about enhancing their leadership impact.
  • To move beyond knowing what to do, and start doing what you know. Knowledge that is not enacted, will not enhance your leadership. We can support you to turn your increased knowledge and good intentions into lasting improvements in your day-to-day leadership behaviour. 

The Australian Leadership Development Centre is committed to developing leadership in executives and managers from the corporate, public and educational sectors within Australia. Our distinctive, evidence-based and highly practical services include:

We define leadership as the process of influencing the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of others, to bring about desired ends. This process includes yet goes beyond exerting influence through formal authority. We know that leadership matters. An independent review of leadership research showed that leadership consistently accounted for between 20-45% of variance in organisational outcomes. We can help you to ensure that you and other leaders in your organisation are leading in ways that maximises your impact.



 

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The Australian Leadership Development Centre – Developing Leadership for Tomorrow’s Organisations.

Centre's Outstanding Insight Recognised
The academic publishing house Emerald has recognised the Centre's insight into how to design successful leadership development as some of the best in the world.
Harvard Agrees - Leadership Is What Gets You to the Top
New research from Harvard confirms that it is your leadership, not your technical or functional competence, that gets you to the C-Suite, and that aspiring c-level HR executives would be well advised to focus their efforts on developing internal leadership talent.
Why So Many Leadership Development Inititiatives Fail
Nearly a million management courses were offered in Australia last year. This is not surprising as research shows that quality leadership makes a real difference to organisational performance and that investing in quality leadership development can is a way to boost these results. Yet, research also shows that less than 15% of learning from most courses gets transferred back into new ways of leading within the workplace. Why? According to Shaun’s latest article in Development & Learning in Organizations, it is largely due to fundamental flaws in program design.
Free Help for HR & L&D Professionals
The ALDC is proud to launch a new online community for HR and L&D professionals charged with developing leadership in their organisations.
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