Burnham Rosen Group

The Center for Creative Leadership just announced that they are removing two competencies from their Benchmark leadership and management assessment products: Leveraging Differences and Respect for Differences. They explained that this decision was made in response to concerns from federal employees about DEI. In my mind, CCL's decision is a terrible idea. It leads to one of two conclusions, neither of which is good: 1. CCL knows that the competencies are important, but is sacrificing its rigorous, high-quality research in the interest of political appeasement. 2. CCL is removing competencies that were never needed for effective management and leadership. If this is the case, it calls into question the validity of the assessments and CCL's work. The competencies in question are not radical. Most people work in places where there are many differences. Leveraging and respecting differences is not about any political agenda. Instead, they support that creation and leadership of effective, high-performing teams. I've been using CCL's assessments for 15+ years and I've always been an advocate for them and for CCL. I'm dissapointed that CCL is not practicing what it preaches. This is a moment when CCL should be standing up for its research and researchers. I've written to CCL CEO Martin Schneider. If you are similarly concerned by this action, I hope you will consider writing to him as well. #organizationdevelopment #assessment #leadership #leadershipassessment #ethics Keli Trejo Judy Vogel David R. Glaser Amber Mayes, MSOD (she/her) Jill Royston Bauback Yeganeh, Ph.D. Nyacko Pearl Perry, MSOD, ACC Christine Sheedy Douglas Fletcher, MSOD, ICF-ACC Julia Monaghan Surabhi Lal Priya Nalkur, Ed.D. Lauren Powers Christina Z. W. Chang Sarah H. Seiler Lize A.E Booysen Aqeel Tirmizi Megan Bolton, Ph.D. Roz Cohen, Ph.D., SPHR

The Center for Creative Leadership just announced that they are removing two competencies from their Benchmark leadership and management assessment products: Leveraging Differences and Respect for Differences. They explained that this decision was made in response to concerns from federal employees about DEI. In my mind, CCL's decision is a terrible idea. It leads to one of two conclusions, neither of which is good: 1. CCL knows that the competencies are important, but is sacrificing its rigorous, high-quality research in the interest of political appeasement. 2. CCL is removing competencies that were never needed for effective management and leadership. If this is the case, it calls into question the validity of the assessments and CCL's work. The competencies in question are not radical. Most people work in places where there are many differences. Leveraging and respecting differences is not about any political agenda. Instead, they support that creation and leadership of effective, high-performing teams. I've been using CCL's assessments for 15+ years and I've always been an advocate for them and for CCL. I'm dissapointed that CCL is not practicing what it preaches. This is a moment when CCL should be standing up for its research and researchers. I've written to CCL CEO Martin Schneider. If you are similarly concerned by this action, I hope you will consider writing to him as well. #organizationdevelopment #assessment #leadership #leadershipassessment #ethics Keli Trejo Judy Vogel David R. Glaser Amber Mayes, MSOD (she/her) Jill Royston Bauback Yeganeh, Ph.D. Nyacko Pearl Perry, MSOD, ACC Christine Sheedy Douglas Fletcher, MSOD, ICF-ACC Julia Monaghan Surabhi Lal Priya Nalkur, Ed.D. Lauren Powers Christina Z. W. Chang Sarah H. Seiler Lize A.E Booysen Aqeel Tirmizi Megan Bolton, Ph.D. Roz Cohen, Ph.D., SPHR