Job Challenge Profile, Facilitator Guide

Origins of the Job Challenge Profile

THE CURRENT VERSION OF THE JOB CHALLENGE PROFILE grew out of a series of research projects on managerial learning, growth, and change that began in the early 1980s at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). Several of CCL’s client organizations had a similar concern: How to ensure that they had the managerial bench strength needed to fill key leadership positions in the future. A major research project was launched to better understand how the current top-level leaders in these client organizations had developed the skills and abilities that had led to their success. The assumption was that knowledge about the developmental paths of current effective leaders could be used to develop a new generation of effective ...