Working with Charles Jennings, the paper will be entitled ‘Effective Learning for the Extended Enterprise’ and will look at how learning and development contributes to strategy and performance, key learning trends, how to create what the authors call ‘a learning landscape’ and advice on the 70-20-10 model. This postulates that 10% comes from formal structured training, 20% from sharing with others and gaining feedback and (the main point of the model) the remaining 70% and development takes place from experience on the job.
Having a model is one thing, but do leaders really believe in this method of learning? Wargnier finds that his leadership clients do not really want to be just coached and are certainly not willing to go back to the classroom.
“I am convinced that experiential learning is the right path,” says Wargnier and adds a further thought, “I am always a bit concerned about the definition of ‘leadership’. Is it a set of skills for the happy few? I don’t believe so and that view of the sole leader is a thing of the past. In this century, everyone has to become a leader. You have to lead yourself, of course; you have to be a decision maker, be creative, practical – business structures today are far less pyramidal and the trend will only continue.”