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Chapter 9

Getting Started

What’s In This Chapter

How do you get your LDP started?
What commitments should you ask LDP participants to make?
How do you bring closure to the LDP?

To make your leadership development program successful, many steps must be taken. It starts with agreement among your company’s HR group and your CEO and other executives that you want to build an LDP, consensus on a set of goals for the LDP, and approval of a budget for the program. As will be discussed in chapter 10, there are many cost alternatives, so your LDP can ...

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