Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook

How are the world's most successful organizations developing their leaders? "This book will help anyone who is charged with a leadership development initiative or is learning about leadership development. Full of practical examples and tools from companies that are known for having a reputation for developing leaders."
Michael Piergrossi; vice president, leadership and organization development, W. R. Grace & Co.
Using the case studies in this book will give you the opportunity you to:
* Benchmark against SmithKline Beecham's 21 Leadership Competencies
* Implement cutting-edge tools including Allied Signal's Career Profile, continuous improvement and performance objectives tools
* Customize a training curriculum that works for your organization based on: Imasco's Operating Company Visits and Work Projects, Colgate-Palmolive's Key Accountability program, or Abbott Lab's Managing Across Boundaries
* And much more!
In 1998, Linkage, Inc., and Warren Bennis collaborated in completing a study of more than 350 companies involved with leadership development and found that:
* Nearly all respondents recognized the need to develop stronger leaders, yet less than 44 percent had a formal process for nominating or developing high-potential employees
* Companies that do successfully build their high-potential employees use structured leadership development systems
* The programs that make a difference include some or all of three critical components: formal training, 360-degree feedback, and most importantly, exposure to senior executives including mentoring programs
The result of this study is Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook. With its case study approach, this book gives you access to the practical, easy-to-apply tools, instruments, training, and competency models that fifteen world-class organizations use as benchmarks to successfully implement their leadership development programs.
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> Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D is one of the world's most foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people, and their teams. Marshall has been ranked in the Wall Street Journal as one of the "Top 10" consultants in the field of executive development. His work has received national recognition from the Institute for Management Studies, the American Management Association, the American Society for Training and Development, and the Human Resource Planning Society. His coaching process has been positively described in both the New York Times and the Financial Times. Marshall has co-edited (with Frances Hesselbein and Dick Beckhard) the books, The Leader of the Future, The Organization of the Future, and The Community of the Future, which have sold over 400,000 copies in 14 different languages. Marshall has a MBA from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from UCLA. Before forming KGC, he was an Associate Dean at Loyola Marymount University and a Director at the Center for Leadership Studies.

David Giber (DGiber@linkage-inc.com) is a leading expert in designing and implementing integrated leadership development programs that achieve organizational effectiveness and measurable change. He has served in director-level HR positions for major organizations in various vertical industries for over 15 years, and has consulted with a wide variety of domestic and global organizations on such issues as succession planning, management development, workforce assessment, competency modeling, and developing performance and compensation systems. He has designed and managed training and development programs worldwide for such firms as SIAC, Digital Equipment Corporation, Keane, Inc., New York Airlines, and Goldman Sachs. He has also developed competency models and competency-based human resource systems for such organizations as the Principal Financial Group, Levi Strauss, LEGO Systems, Harvard Community Health Plan, Unum Insurance, and others. David received his B.A. from Stanfo! rd in 1976 and his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from Duke University in 1980.

Louis "Lou" Carter (Lcarter@linkage-inc.com) is manager of publications and consulting at Linkage, Inc. Working with Linkage's senior consultants, product development specialists, and associate editors, Carter is responsible for the creation of best practice educational resources, as well as training and development programs. Prior to joining Linkage, Carter served as vice president for business development and change for an insurance and financial services organization where he designed and delivered change management initiatives and customized training. He was also an analyst for two Wall Street investment banking firms, and a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based strategic analysis think-tank dedicated to Fortune 500 Internet and Online Services Organizations. He has written several articles for the MIT Society for Organizational Learning's Website, as well as for Bankers and Tradesman. Carter's book, Linkage, Inc.'s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook and Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Organization and Human Resources Development Handbook (Linkage Press 2000) received critical acclaim from leaders in the industry.

Carter was also a radio personality in college where he provided his own news and pop rock music show, and has worked for Don Imus on his morning radio show. Carter received his BA cum laude in Government and Economics from Connecticut College and has studied organization development and management at Brown University, Harvard University Extension School, and American University/National Training Labs Masters of Science in Organizational Development Program. Carter is also a certified change agent and partnership coach.