Leadership Assessment for Talent Development

For professionals responsible for talent management and development, assessing competence and capability is crucial, especially in relation to recruiting the right leader. Yet talent professionals can also use leadership assessment as a positive and powerful talent development tool. Leadership Assessment for Talent Development goes beyond recruitment to position assessment as a central, strategic activity. It demonstrates how to apply a connected process that accelerates behavioural change areas and facilitates the engagement and enabling of in-house talent. This practical, forward-looking book uses authentic, engaging case studies to show how the principles of leadership assessment can work in practice. It is an essential companion for HR and talent professionals in any field who want to equip their company with the talent it needs to be fit for business success.

Tony Wall is a senior lecturer and international consultant at the University of Chester's Centre for Work Related Studies, facilitates leadership development through coaching, action learning and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), and designs executive university programmes designed for behavioural change and business impact. Tony has studied, researched and consulted in the UK (Warwick Business School, Lancaster University Management School), Canada (Schulich School of Business) and China, is a Master NLP Practitioner and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Tony Wall is currently researching accelerated approaches to peak performance learning in the workplace, and presents his work in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia. He is a co-editor of the book Making Employer and University Partnerships Work, author of Learning Through Work, and writes and reviews articles for international journals. In recognition of his contribution, he has been nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in London.

John Knights is a co-founder and chairman of LeaderShape, and is an experienced coach, mentor, and facilitator of senior executives, teams and peer groups. He is an expert in Emotional Intelligence and a thought leader in 'Transpersonal Leadership' and the relationship between neuroscience and leadership. John developed LEIPA and 8ICOL, probably the most sophisticate 360o leadership assessments ever developed.

Previously, John Knights has served as a senior leader and board member for international corporations working in over 50 countries, as well as founding a number of technology companies, acting as a board member and chair in several public partnerships in Oxfordshire and lecturing at the University of Oxford. John is the prime author of the publication The Invisible Elephant and The Pyramid Treasure sponsored by Tomorrow's Company, CIMA, Tata and Korn Ferry.