Posted by Kalani Iwiula on Thu, Mar 25, 2010
Initiated by Hewitt Associates and in partnership with Fortune and The RBL Group, the 2009 Top Companies for Leaders Study highlights those organizations that have gone beyond the basics of grooming strong leaders.
Six components differentiating the top company approaches from the less successful ones are as follows:
- Centralized efforts
- Top executive involvement
- Focus on a few key processes
- Make leadership development a strategic focus
- Build leaders and leadership
- Create value for inside and outside stakeholders
This 20-page study is a brilliant and quick read. If you're an HRD/LD/OD professional, leadership consultant, executive coach, or change agent, read and understand this study. You'll be glad you did.
- To view the Hewitt study, click here.
- To review our 360 Feedback instrument for leaders, click here.
- To review our leadership development workshop, click here.
If you care to share your comments after reading the study, please do so.
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Posted by Kalani Iwiula on Wed, Mar 10, 2010
In January of '09, Harvard Business Review published a report titled, "The Realities of Executive Coaching." Authors Carol Kauffman and Diane Coutu surveyed a diverse group of coaches with the majority from the US and UK, gender divided equally 50-50, 61% active in the coaching profession for 10-plus years, and nearly all respondents claimed independent status with only 1% claiming internal corporate coaches.
Whether you're an internal or external executive coach, you should find value in the report particularly the introductory framing of the engagement, key success factors, and the conclusion sections.
Of particular interest was how high 360-degree feedback collection was ranked in terms of valuable tools used in practice (77%). As with all diagnostic instruments, be sure your provider's methods and validity are of sound psychometric standards.
To review the HBR report, click here.
Click for Eric Schmidt's quick take on coaching.
Please share your comments about coaching or the HBR report?
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