On today’s pod Simon Losasso, Medtronic’s global talent development consultant, talks about some of the key considerations and challenges of designing and delivering large-scale leadership development programmes to a diverse, multi-layered and multi-cultural audience.

Originally from Reading, UK, Simon has lives in Milan, Italy, and has worked for the multi-billion $ US health-tech company Medtronic for twenty-five years. Starting in sales and business development , Simon moved into learning and development in 2011 is now a consultant in the core leadership development team in Medtronic.

During our conversation, we discuss the following topics:

· Creating a learning organisation

· Delivering results by developing people

· Developing leadership behaviours that are conducive to the motivation, loyalty, and productivity of the workforce

· Operating differentiated programmes for high potential and core development

· The different use of thematic and role-based learning programmes

· Measuring coaching results through the complex analysis of organisational health survey data

· Designing scaled learning courses that are linked to strategic goals and based on the requirements of the identified needs of the organisation

· Balancing the consistency of core values and behaviours with cultural identity

Medtronic engineers ground-breaking healthcare technology solutions for the most complex and challenging conditions.

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