Accelerating Your Development as a Leader: A Guide for Leaders and Their Managers

Case in Point: Ken

Ken wanted to become stronger in the areas of project management and influencing without authority. As one of three leaders in his company's corporate training department, Ken decided that a developmental assignment that could help him meet these goals would to take the lead in launching a new learning management system (LMS) that would serve all divisions within his organization. An LMS is the software system that houses online training for an organization and supports such features as the online registration of participants, data collection on training usages and associated costs, and the validation of participant learning through online testing. The project extended over eighteen months and had a number of components that ...