Professional & Leadership Development Certificates ©.

INTRODUCTION:
Equipped with the resources you need to drive maximum results, use data from your organization to apply what you learn immediately to your own leadership training.
Evaluate leadership competencies and behaviors and their relation to your
organizational and workforce needs.

Analyse various assessment models that can support your leadership initiative. Learn to evaluate both your organization’s program
and off-the-shelf offerings.

WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?
• Discover the components you need to design best-in-class leadership development.
• Gain the latest information and trends on the state of leadership development and the opportunity to compare best practices against your organization.
• Access a toolkit of more than 100 activities to use beyond the classroom. Explore ideas to engage leaders within your organization and dozens of comprehensive, readyto-use tools.

The Goals
• Ensure alignment of a leadership development program to an organization’s culture, vision, mission, and goals, as well as competencies, customers’ requirements, and business needs.
• Select and implement appropriate learning methods.
• List content and competencies that must be included in a leadership
development program.
• List observable behaviors that display a leader’s ability to demonstrate the
competencies.
• Discuss a hierarchy of competencies and content for entry, mid-level, and
executives.
• Utilize process planning checklists and other job aids to create a leadership
development program.
• Measure and link the value of a leadership development program to an
organization’s bottom line.
• Discern the advantages, disadvantages, and appropriate use of off-the-shelf
leadership development programs.
• Implement questionnaires, assessment methods, and self-evaluation tools
presented in the leadership development program.
• Incorporate best practices in leadership needs assessments, implementation, and when identifying high potential candidates for leadership programs.

Who should enrol in this certificate?
Participants should already have experience in designing learning and have a business need tounder stand the best practices in developing effective leadership programs.

This is not a leadership course but a program that introduces participants to all of the necessary components of great leadership development programs.

The Programme Content
Topic 1 – Introduction
Organizational Readiness Audit
Critical Success Factors
Why Leadership Development Fails
LEADS: Model for Building a Leadership
Development Program
The Five Phases
Timeline to Build a Leadership
Development Program: LEADS
Leadership and Management: What’s the
Difference?
Topic 2 – Lay the Foundation
What’s Driving Your Leadership Effort?
Close Your Leadership Gap
Ensure LDP Alignment
Engage Your Leaders Right from the Start
Leadership Development Philosophy
Topic 3 – Envision the Future
Planning for Leadership Development of
the Future
Grounding the Vision for a Successful Plan
Summarizing Leadership Development
Changes
What’s a Leadership Competency?
Customizing a Competency Model
Topic 4 – Agree on and Articulate an
Action Plan
Clarify the Purpose and Establish Goals
Determine an Operational Construct
Who Will Participate?
Leadership Development Communication
Plan
Topic 5 – Design the Developmental
Elements
360-Degree Assessments
Leadership Development Plans
Succession Planning
Leaders Developing Leaders
Commitment to Develop Other Leaders
Sample Mentoring Program Comparison
Using Experience to Develop Leadership
Talent
Topic 6 – Sustain Progress
Processes and Systems for Sustainability
Annual Review Process
Evaluating the Initiative
Measuring the Four Levels
ROE and ROI
What Is ROE?
How ROI Differs
Continuous Process Improvement Plan