Furthering the Process
We have already mentioned that approaching leadership development as a process rather than an event can significantly enhance long-term impact. Periodic follow-up is an important ingredient of the process because it provides feedback that can extend and add to the developmental experience.
Follow-up can create motivation in the form of a challenge.
There are, however, some do's and don'ts when it comes to the specifics of following up:
Follow-up should
- Be scheduled and intentional, not random and out of the blue.
- Focus on being developmental rather than evaluative or, worse yet, punitive.
- Be informative and educational.
- Be targeted at the specific behaviors that the individual being tracked has been working on.
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