Purpose: This paper reviews what has been written on leadership development from the leadership-as-practice (L-A-P) perspective, which views leadership as emerging in everyday activities and interactions of a collective in a specific context. This paper aims to deepen the theoretical understanding of how leadership can be learned and developed…

This paper seeks to advance the understanding of the complementarity between action learning and lean. Today, this is an underexplored research area, despite the high degree of similarities and syngeneic possibilities between these two research streams. The paper describes an action learning intervention at VELUX, a Danish rooftop manufacturer…

Leadership development in higher education remains lacking, with most leadership development the result of learning on-the-job. Understanding and navigating the leadership challenges of increasingly complex higher education environments is even more demanding in colleges of education facing unprecedented pressures from outside and inside the…

Despite the number of studies confirming a high degree of unpredictability in managerial work, little is still known about how managers' workplace learning happens within organisations in such circumstances. This paper therefore aims to contribute knowledge about managers' learning in managerial practice when work is unpredictable, by…

This mixed-methods research study examined the perceived efficacy of multiweek, immersive, experiential, in-person executive education for developing EI in senior executives for improved leadership effectiveness. Extensive research supports the ability of adults to develop EI competencies through workplace training, executive coaching, and MBA…

Context: Active engagement and participation in professional practices are an important requirement for expertise development in vocational domains. However, not much is known about how work contexts foster or hinder such expertise development. To further fill this research gap, this study investigates two vocational domains, namely sales…

This study explores the experiences of leaders who have led organisations and teams through an extended period of crisis management whilst completing a UK work-based master's programme. This paper examines contemporary approaches to work-based learning and explores the effect of organisational and workforce demands in a volatile era of global…

The success and satisfaction of students with online courses is significantly impacted by the sequencing of learning objectives and activities. Equally critical is designing online degree programs and structuring multiple courses to reduce learners' cognitive load and attain maximum learning success. In its current form, the evaluation of program…

The purpose of this case study is to highlight the efficacy of Virtual Learning as a tool to facilitate training transfer of behavioral skills and knowledge imparted during the course of a leadership intervention in a manufacturing firm during the pandemic lockdown. A mixed-method approach involving qualitative depth interviews and survey…

Change moves fast, and organizations can struggle to keep up. Mergers and acquisitions create new organizations, and managerial charts flatten, with fewer layers of administration in the middle causing people to be expected to do more with less. The optimal way to achieve critical outcomes is by scaling development opportunities across the entire…

This interpretative phenomenological analysis study explored how the lived experiences of seven sheriffs residing in Louisiana, while transitioning through various training phases in their careers, influenced their progression, perceptions, and leadership practices. After reviewing both the President Executive Task Force on 21st Century Final…

This article shares our experience using a job-embedded active learning approach to support candidates' growth as systems-focused equity leaders in the University of Washington's Leadership for Learning program. We describe how socio-cultural learning theory helped us shift from field-based application projects to job-embedded learning. Our…

Campus leadership at a satellite campus of a large national university took a research approach to solve the workplace problem of increased scholarship requirements for practitioner faculty. The Community of Scholars Action Research Project was developed as a faculty engagement and professional development initiative. The goals and objectives for…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to draw on empirical data to interrogate the correlation between participation in leadership development programmes by individual leaders and the ability of higher education institutions to learn organisationally from such participation. Design/methodology/approach: Applying a multi-stakeholder perspective,…

Purpose: This study aims to examine participants' perspectives in organization-sponsored training and provides support for further research positioning the trainer as an organizational leader. Design/methodology/approach: The interactions described in the trainees' experiences were examined through a social constructivist lens. Interviews were…