Jo-Ann C. Byrne - The Successful Leadership Development Program: How to Build It and How to Keep It Going

We realize that there are many resources out there dealing with the concept of leadership development. These include works by Kouzes and Posner, Goleman, Senge, Northouse, Bass, Covey, and the like. However, it appears that, while there are many excellent approaches to leadership development, most focus primarily on individual leadership development and not on a process that would allow an organization to build its own program from the ground up or plug in to the process at points that were germane to a particular organization. As organizations face a highly competitive and volatile business environment, it is crucial that their leaders be effective, productive, and efficient.

The Successful Leadership Development Program provides a breakthrough opportunity to design, develop, and implement a truly customized leadership development process in your organization. In this text youll find all the guidelines, checklists, and tools specifically created to assist in the implementation of a program tailored to your unique needs. With this text, you can move forward with your initiative to create the leaders of the future, knowing that you will be guided and supported each step of the way.

The Successful Leadership Development Program will help you plan and design, develop the documents, sell the concepts, conduct the training, and measure the outcomes of your new leadership program. This text will also be an invaluable resource for those who already have a program in place and would like a methodical and effective way to evaluate it. Each piece of your current program can be evaluated using the accompanying algorithm. When a problem or missing piece is identified, refer to that chapter for tools and assistance in enhancing your program.

The book is organized around an algorithm that takes the reader step-by-step through the process of developing a successful leadership development program. In addition to providing an overview, the algorithm can be used to determine where in the process you are and what steps need to be taken or skipped. The accompanying CD includes tools, forms, and samples that you can use to help create your own program.

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Jo-Ann C. Byrne and Richard T. Rees

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