Accelerating Leadership Development: Practical Solutions for Building Your Organization's Potential

Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Acknowledgments
6. Introduction: The Business Performance Framework
7. Part I: Leadership and Succession
   1. Chapter 1: The Leadership Success Profile
      1. The Critical Components
      2. The Bucket List
      3. Competencies, Experience and Knowledge
      4. The Importance of Personality
      5. Last Thoughts on What It Takes
      6. What the Experts Say
   2. Chapter 2: Identifying Leadership Potential
      1. Predictors of Success for Future Leaders
      2. A Meeting of Minds
      3. Do We Tell Them or Not?
      4. What the Experts Say
   3. Chapter 3: Diagnosing Development Needs
      1. 1. The Multi-Rater Survey
      2. 2. Knowledge and Experience Inventory
      3. 3. The Hogan Personality Assessment Tools
      4. The Importance of Self-Awareness
      5. What You Know, What Others Know
      6. What the Experts Say
   4. Chapter 4: Prescribing Development Solutions
      1. The Importance of Showing Up
      2. Deliberate Practice Makes Perfect
      3. Learn While You Work, Work While You Learn
      4. Staying on Track
      5. Informal Learning
      6. What the Experts Say
   5. Chapter 5: Ensuring and Reviewing Development
      1. Create Learning Tension
      2. Implementation and Review
      3. What the Experts Say
8. Part II: Leadership in Action
   1. Chapter 6: Leaders as Coaches
      1. Coaching and Accountability
      2. Executive, Management and Business Coaching
      3. Coaching in Action
      4. The Coaching Process
      5. Establish Next Steps
      6. Establish Accountabilities
      7. What the Experts Say
   2. Chapter 7: Motivate for Full Engagement
      1. Motivation Lessons for Leaders
      2. Unleashing the Power of Gen-X Leaders
      3. What the Experts Say
   3. Chapter 8: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
      1. The More Things Change . . .
      2. Keys to Effective Communication
      3. Getting Personal
      4. Styles of Communication
      5. The Power of Storytelling
      6. What the Experts Say
   4. Chapter 9: Delegate Deliberately and Provide Feedback
      1. Delegate Deliberately
      2. The Delegation Model
      3. Personality and Its Impact on Delegation
      4. Delegation as a Development Tool
      5. Feedback
      6. What the Experts Say
   5. Chapter 10: Influential Leadership
      1. Developing Awareness
      2. Establishing Credibility
      3. Identifying Key Stakeholders
      4. Building Collaborative Networks
      5. What the Experts Say
9. Part III: Leadership Best Practices
   1. Chapter 11: Align for Results
      1. Line of Sight
      2. Leveraging the Performance Management System
      3. A Business Strategy
      4. The Three Phases of the Performance Management Cycle
      5. The Use—and Misuse—of Performance Reviews
      6. What the Experts Say
   2. Chapter 12: From Doing to Leading, and Other Leadership Transitions
      1. Leading versus Managing
      2. The Power of Self-Awareness
      3. Leadership Transitions
      4. What the Experts Say
   3. Chapter 13: Onboarding
      1. A Holistic Process
      2. A Modern and Structured Approach
      3. What the Experts Say
   4. Chapter 14: Contemporary Development Solutions
      1. Formal, Informal and Social Learning
      2. Communities of Practice
      3. The Four Myths of Social Learning
      4. What the Experts Say
10. Conclusion
11. References
12. About the Author
13. Index