Report: Leadership Training Expanding

A new report finds that organizations are more eager to offer leadership development programs to all workers, not just those at the C-suite level.

Leadership Development: Cultivating Critical Skills for Employees at All Levels, was published last week by the Association for Talent Development (ATD) and is based on a survey of talent professionals, executives and rank-and-file workers. Three fourths of executives (75 percent) said that leadership development for all employees is a "high priority," though currently only 47 percent provide that kind of training across all levels.

This is the first time ATD has conducted a survey on the subject, said ATD Director of Research Rocki Basel, PhD, who added that it was inspired by increased anecdotal conversations around it.

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