Using Experience to Develop Leadership Talent: How Organizations Leverage On-the-Job Development

Research increasingly and conclusively shows that effective leaders continue to learn, grow, and change throughout their careers and that a significant part of this development occurs through on-the-job experiences. Co-Published by the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and sponsored by the Center for Creative Leadership, Using Experience to Develop Leadership Talent provides real-world strategies, best practices, lessons learned, and global perspectives on how organizations effectively use experience to develop talent.

• Provides an in-depth look at a variety of leader development initiatives that have taken up the challenge of putting experience at the center of the development process
• Written by senior practitioners who have implemented initiatives they write about
• Shares new development planning tools, systematic approaches to managing the assignments of high potentials, tools to educate managers on how to find assignments that meet their employee's development needs
• Includes online resources that allow employees to search for development opportunities

Describing challenges and practices in multinational companies around the world, Using Experience to Develop Leadership Talent will serve as a focused guide to how organizations can use on-the-job development to reshape leader development practices that better integrate work and learning.

Keywords: Human Resource Management, Leadership development, Cynthia McCauley, Morgan McCall, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Center for Creative Leadership, leadership training, training leaders, leadership development tools, management training, management development