The Successful Leadership Development Program: How to Build It and How to Keep It Going

Introduction

As you move through this text, we'll tell you more about our story, but let me give you some insights on how we started. I was the new director of education in a medium-sized hospital system. Leadership development had been identified as a major initiative at a strategic planning meeting held before I came on board. I was now tasked with addressing the issue. What approach would I use to construct a leadership development program to meet the diverse needs of this new, and for me, unknown organization?

I first familiarized myself with the management team. Some had been on board for several years; most had been in the organization fewer than two years. Based on cursory interviews and observations, it appeared that their skill sets ...