David Giber Knihy

How are the world's most successful organizations developing their leaders? This book is a valuable resource for anyone involved in leadership development initiatives. It offers practical examples and tools from companies renowned for their leadership programs. By utilizing the case studies, you can benchmark against SmithKline Beecham's 21 Leadership Competencies and implement innovative tools like Allied Signal's Career Profile and performance objectives. You can also customize a training curriculum tailored to your organization, drawing on insights from Imasco's Operating Company Visits, Colgate-Palmolive's Key Accountability program, and Abbott Lab's Managing Across Boundaries. In a 1998 study by Linkage, Inc. and Warren Bennis, over 350 companies were surveyed about leadership development. Findings revealed that while nearly all recognized the need for stronger leaders, less than 44% had formal processes for developing high-potential employees. Successful companies employ structured leadership development systems, incorporating formal training, 360-degree feedback, and crucial exposure to senior executives through mentoring programs. The outcome of this study is Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook, which provides access to practical tools, instruments, training, and competency models used by fifteen world-class organizations to effectively implement their leadership development programs.

Learn from experts at the world's top organizations! Best Practices in Organization Development and Change is a state-of-the-art resource that presents the most important ideas and effective strategies from experts and top companies in the field. Comprehensive in scope, the book addresses the five most important organization development or human resource development (OD/HRD) topics--organization development and change, leadership development, recruitment and retention, performance management, and coaching and mentoring--and offers a practical framework for design, implementation, and evaluation. It includes best-practice case studies from seventeen leading organizations that have achieved their change objectives. The case studies will help you: Analyze the need for the specific OD/HRD initiative Build a solid business case for OD/HRD Identify the audience for the initiative Design an effective OD/HRD initiative Implement a successful design of the initiative Evaluate the effectiveness of the initiative You'll benefit from expertise at trend-setting companies such as: Kraft Foods Smithkline Beecham Westinghouse Sun Microsystems . . . and many more! "An extremely important volume with useful contextual perspectives plus vivid and important case studies of companies that know what they're doing to lead change." —Warren Bennis, author, On Becoming a Leader and Organizing Genius