Session on KPMG Academy Research with Tamás Cservenyák

The session with Tamás Cservenyák was entitled “Do Managers Use the Best Practices of Leadership? - Key findings of the 2012 research project by KPMG Academy”. At the beginning of the session, we all took the survey KPMG’s research was based on and the results fell largely in line with the research: task related aspects of leadership were perceivedly conveyed by more of our respective last superiors than actual leadership oriented aspects. After discussing possible explanations for this such as perspective and personal bias, the course of the session revealed that implementation of such matters was indeed an issue but that this seems to be rather an issue of feasibility than lack of willingness of the ‘leaders’. The conclusion of the session was that the misconception of a ‘one-size-fits-all approach’ to leadership in general and especially in a hierarchical setting hinders the acquisition of individual leadership skills and that personalized coaching by an ‘outsider’ would be a more fruitful approach.