ABSTRACT
Gosling and Sutherland offer a thorough overview of an array of practices in leadership development. They emphasize followership as much or more than leadership. They show that most leadership development activities are focused on individual prescriptions. They provide a wonderful history of the evolution of leadership development, starting with the Greeks through to current events. They overview the $14 billion leadership development industry. They highlight the critiques of leadership development as not attending to the context or delivering desired outcomes. They then review the standards and competencies related to building leadership and summarize approaches to learning including: experiential learning, reflection, learning spaces, and memories with momentum (application of ideas). Finally, they review pedagogical methods (case study, role plays, action learning, mindfulness, group dynamics, coaching, outdoor/adventure, roundtables, arts, and gamification). This thorough overview of approaches to leadership development demonstrates that investments in leadership will likely continue in varied ways and that individuals who want to be better leaders or companies that want to build better leadership can make informed choices to do so.
