Relationships at Work - a trust-driven leadership podcast Why Leadership Development Fails Without Clarity
Jul 21, 2025
20:17
This is part 1 of a 4-part conversation on the context we need for improving leadership development.
Leadership development starts with understanding what leadership actually is—but most organizations skip that step entirely. In this Relationships at Work episode, Dr. Rob Lion joins Russel Lolacher to unpack the leadership confusion so many organizations suffer from. Together, they explore why we conflate productivity with leadership, why style-based development doesn’t work, and how a lack of shared definition breaks everything downstream.
🔍 You’ll learn:
- Why clarity is foundational in leadership development
- The danger of copying poor role models
- Where post-secondary education misses the mark
- What a strong leadership identity looks like
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