Grow Your Own Leaders

How to Identify, Develop, and Retain Leadership Talent

Audrey B. Smith, William C. Byham, Matthew J. Paese

376 pages, parution le 19/06/2002

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Résumé

Acceleration pools: a new method of succession management.

Your organization's success is defined by one factor: the quality of your leaders. But developing great leaders has never been tougher. Now, drawing on experience with over 1,600 organizations, three renowned leadership consultants show exactly how to identify tomorrow's best leaders within your organization, accelerate their development and deployment, and maximize their value to your organization.
Comprehensive and practical, Grow Your Own Leaders covers every phase of executive development and succession, introducing high-impact, no-bureaucracy techniques that work. You'll discover how to align executive development with corporate strategy; how to take full advantage of short-term assignments, professional coaching, and other new approaches; and how to ensure accountability and measure results.
Yesterday's rigid, static executive succession programs have become a key obstacle to success. Grow Your Own Leaders introduces a flexible, high-speed approach designed for tomorrow's companies in tomorrow's marketplace-and shows you exactly how to implement it, from start to finish.

The crisis of executive leadership—and why conventional solutions don't work
Effective leadership has never been more crucial-or in shorter supply
Best practices for identifying "high potentials" in your own organization
Why you should focus internally—and how to identify outstanding leaders who aren't "bubbling to the top"
"Acceleration Pools": bringing new flexibility to executive succession
Breakthrough executive development techniques that reflect the realities of today's organizations
Delivering leaders fast, to meet tomorrow's challenges—whatever they are
When opportunity knocks, will you have leaders ready to take advantage of it?
From assessment to results: translating diagnosis into action
Individualized executive development that delivers on the promise you've identified
4 ways to turbocharge executive growth—and minimize HR bureaucracy
High-impact solutions that require fewer forms, and fewer meetings!
Turbocharge executive development in your organization!

Contents

I. LEADERSHIP TALENT: CRISIS AND PROPOSED SOLUTION
1. The Growing Leadership Shortage: Building the Case for Acceleration Pools
2. Acceleration Pools: The Basics
3. Seventeen Reasons Acceleration Pools Work
4. Acceleration Pools: Fundamental Questions and Rationale

II. IDENTIFYING HIGH POTENTIALS
5. Identifying High Potentials

III. UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL TALENT
6. Defining the Executive of the Future
7. Diagnosing Strengths and Development Needs
8. Understanding and Prioritizing Development Needs

IV. STRATEGIES FOR ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT
9. Development Options
10. Growth through Assignments
11. Growth through Short-Term Experiences
12. Growth through Training/Executive Education
13. Growth through Professional Coaching

V. ENSURING ACCELERATION POOL SUCCESS: KEY PROCESSES, ROLES/ACCOUNTABILITIES, MEETINGS, AND OTHER MECHANICS
14. Key Partners: Supporting Growth
15. Optimizing Your Talent Review Discussion
16. The Role of the CEO and Measures of Acceleration Pool Success
17. Getting Started

References
Glossary
Acknowledgements
About Development Dimensions International
About the Authors
Other Books from DDI

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prentice Hall
Auteur(s)	Audrey B. Smith, William C. Byham, Matthew J. Paese
Parution	19/06/2002
Nb. de pages	376
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	660g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780130093981
ISBN13	978-0-13-009398-1