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Various factors are affecting companies' ability to effectively prepare future leaders.

Various factors are affecting companies' ability to effectively prepare future leaders.

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There's a paradox happening in boardrooms today: Companies insist that developing leaders is a top priority, yet most don't have the proper training in place, so leaders don't have the tools to help create new leaders. The result is a widening leadership gap that shows up as stalled transformation efforts, messy successions, disengaged teams, and reactive hiring that costs time and money. Now it's become critical for talent development professionals to help build a pipeline that produces leaders ready to steer their company into the future.

There's a paradox happening in boardrooms today: Companies insist that developing leaders is a top priority, yet most don't have the proper training in place, so leaders don't have the tools to help create new leaders. The result is a widening leadership gap that shows up as stalled transformation efforts, messy successions, disengaged teams, and reactive hiring that costs time and money. Now it's become critical for talent development professionals to help build a pipeline that produces leaders ready to steer their company into the future.

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