How do you know if leadership training actually changes behavior — not just how people feel about a workshop, but how they act at their desk three months later? CMI's FLY-Professional Effectiveness Study answers that question by asking people who work closely with each participant — colleagues, managers, peers — to observe and rate real-world behavior across five non-cognitive skills: Conscientiousness, Taking Initiative, Perseverance, Innovativeness, and Problem Solving. Obs

A recent peer-reviewed study from Banaras Hindu University offers an independent look at what leadership training actually lands with students — and FLY (Finding the Leader in You) came up as one of the workshops students chose to talk about, unprompted. Published in the Indian Journal of Extension Education (Vol. 62, No. 4, 2026), the study interviewed 48 female students at Mahila Mahavidyalaya, BHU, about their experience with the university's Leadership and Life Skills Dev