Recent studies indicate a relationship between leadership development programs and student choices about learning transfer. Literature frequently identified student learning experiences, workplace support,curriculum delivery methods, and organizational environment as significant factors affecting self-efficacy beliefs about learning transfer. For instance, research indicates individuals who possessed high self-efficacy beliefs regarding their ability to acquire new skills before they started leadership development training were more likely to transfer learning to the workplace after completion of training (Ayres, 2005). In another
study, Ford, Smith, Weissbein, Gully, and Salas (1998) identified how student mastery and performance experiences affected the development of student learning transfer self-efficacy beliefs during training