Leaders as Teachers (Paperback): Unlock the Teaching Potential of Your Company's Best and Brightest - Softcover

Betof, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1562869302 ISBN 13: 9781562869304

Publisher: Association for Talent Development, 2014

Synopsis

Does your organization make the most of its talented, dedicated leaders? If they aren't being used to inspire, mentor, coach, and train others, then it's time to help them―and your organization―reach their full potential.

Leaders as Teachers serves as both a strategic and practical implementation guide, designed for use by learning and human resource professionals as well as business executives, executive coaches, and high-visibility leaders. You'll find a complete explanation of why the leaders-as-teachers approach works, with testimonials from individuals who have personally benefited from the program, and then you'll be provided with a thorough guide to creating your own program.

No matter how large or small your organization may be, you can tailor the leaders-as-teachers approach to your situation. Use this book as a whole or in parts as you need them. It provides all the support materials―detailed plans, exercises, worksheets, sample training agendas―you'll need to establish your own leaders-as-teachers program.

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See leaders as teachers in action!

To see firsthand how a leaders-as-teachers program works and feel the excitement it brings to organizational learning, watch "The People Factor: Leaders as Teachers at BD," a 23-minute film produced by the Corporate University Exchange that vividly describes the leaders-as-teachers process at BD.

About this title

About the Author:

Ed Betof Ed.D. is a senior fellow in human capital, at The Conference Board (TCB). He is also the program director for TCB's Executive Council on Talent and Organization Development and the coach/facilitator for TCB's Global Executive Council. He was a co-developer of the pioneering TCB/NASA leadership experience based on NASA's Apollo program. Ed is president of Betof Associates, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in executive coaching, leadership, and career development. Ed is an adjunct executive and team coach for the Center for Creative Leadership. He has been a faculty member with the Institute for Management Studies since 2008. Ed was a founding senior fellow and an academic director of Penn's chief learning officer doctoral program. After nearly a 40 year corporate and educational leadership career, Ed retired in December 2007 from BD (Becton, Dickinson, and Company) a global medical technology and human diagnostics company where he was the worldwide vice president of talent management and chief learning officer. Ed was an ASTD Board member from 2004 to 2007. During this period, he also chaired the executive committee of The Conference Board's Council on Learning, Development and Organizational Performance. He has served on Pennsylvania State University's Outreach Advisory Board since 2008. Ed is the author of Leaders as Teachers: Unlock the Teaching Potential of Your Company's Best and Brightest (2009) and co-author of Just Promoted: A 12 Month Roadmap for Success in Your New Leadership Role (1992, 2010). Ed has authored or co-authored several dozen articles, manuals, and guides. Ed received his doctorate from Temple University in 1976.

Review:

There is a gigantic difference between great individual leaders and leaders who build great companies. It's one thing to make brilliant individual decisions, yet entirely another to cultivate a brilliant culture composed of wave upon wave of leaders who then teach generation upon generation of new leaders. When leaders master the art of teaching, they've laid a powerful foundation for an enduring great company. --Jim Collins, Author, Good to Great, Co-Author, Built to Last

Ed Betof captures the key to winning in these turbulent times, namely, leaders developing leaders at all levels. The BD story is a powerful benchmark showing how a CEO and team with a clear Teachable Point of View(tm) and a commitment to teach and have leaders teach at all levels both drives performance and develops a leadership pipeline for the future. --Noel Tichy, Professor, University of Michigan, Author, JUDGEMENT: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

In uncertain times, leaders MUST be teachers! Ed Betof has crafted a critically important call to action for leaders to take an active teaching role, in person and digitally, with their colleagues. --Elliott Masie, Chair, The Learning CONSORTIUM

About this edition

• Publisher: Association for Talent Development
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1562869302
• ISBN 13: 9781562869304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232