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Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline
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Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline

How to Develop the Next Generation of Leaders in Small to Mid-Sized Companies

ASTD Publications, 2010 plus...


Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Applicable

Recommendation

Developing leaders means finding people with the skills, knowledge and personality to steer your company. Dan Tobin’s straightforward, if sometimes plodding, guide spells out the basics of creating and managing “leadership development programs” (LDPs). These employee-training efforts are not difficult to implement, and they offer organizations huge benefits. Discovering future leaders in-house means you can nurture and train your own best people to understand your goals, values, and vision. getAbstract found Tobin’s use of checklists and forms practical and useful, and recommends this guidebook to HR professionals at small and medium-sized firms and to all those who want to best leverage their employees’ talents to serve their organization’s future.

Take-Aways

  • As the workforce ages, firms must develop new leaders to replace retiring managers.
  • “Leadership development programs” (LDPs) use education, “action learning,” individual development, mentoring, coaching and reinforcement to train new executives.
  • Company priorities, values and likely future strategies form the core of LDP training.

About the Author

Daniel R. Tobin founded the Digital Equipment Corporation’s Network University and Wang/Getrionics Virtual University; he devoted more than 15 years to creating and honing the “leadership development program model.”


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