The topic for this year's Learning Leadership Summit, and the related musings in my article, came from a trend I observed while doing some research on another topic related to leadership in learning organizations.
We spend a lot--no, I mean a lot--of time and energy talking about what to do during a recession. How to plan for it, what to focus on to try to minimize its impact, what to do when the cuts hit your group, and on, and on, and on. The articles offering advice, the postings on social networking sites and discussion forums, and the seminars at conferences all lavish attention on the issue of reacting to a recession.
Yet by stark contrast, there is almost no discussion, articles, or other literature that focuses specifically on how to lead a training and development organization (or any other business function for that matter) from a recession into an economic recovery. It's as if a recovery just takes care of itself.
Of course that can't be the case, so I want to hear from you.
How should learning leaders plan for the looming recovery? What should we be doing and why?
Please feel free to comment on these questions and on the content of my article.
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