Creating a Leadership Development Program

Course details

An organization's talent should be its strategic advantage. By taking the time to build a thoughtful, strategic leadership development program, you can develop the kind of leaders that advance your company's overall vision. In this course, Bonnie Hagemann takes you through a five-step process for designing and implementing a high-impact leadership development program that helps your organization achieve its specific business objectives. Bonnie explores how to conduct careful research of your company's needs, and analyze that information to inform your program design. She shows how to develop materials that balance different types of learning, select instructors, and integrate instructors with learning supports. Plus, she explains how to build a blueprint for success, create a budget, and run your pilot program.

Learning objectives
Moving from traditional to strategic leadership development
Creating a leadership development model
Researching and analyzing your company to assess its needs
Choosing the most powerful design elements
Balancing different types of learning
Measuring your program's ROI
Creating a powerful final design
Selecting and integrating instructors and program materials
Budgeting and running a pilot program

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Case study and exercise files

1. The Strategic Use of Leadership Development

03 - Overview of the leadership development process
04 - Understand an organization's objectives
05 - Create a leadership development model
06 - Prepare to develop your leadership program
07 - Decide whether to build or buy a leadership program

2. Research and Analysis Phase

08 - Conduct a careful analysis early on
09 - Create a custom survey
10 - How to conduct a deep dive to gather company information
11 - Interview senior leaders and key influencers

3. Turn Needs Analysis into a Strawman Design

12 - Analyze information from the research phase
13 - How to choose powerful design elements
14 - Balance different types of learning
15 - Measure your program's return on investment
16 - How branding and influencers impact the design process

4. Create a Powerful Final Design

17 - Work on design details at a retreat
18 - How to build a blueprint for success
19 - Select and integrate instructors and program materials
20 - Budgeting and running a pilot program
21 - Seek feedback to continually improve

Conclusion

22 - Next steps