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Finally a simple, proven process for determining the organizational impact of leadership development: The Return on Leadership Development Assessment

Developed by:
*Warren Bennis* Dr. Warren Bennis is widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership Studies and author of several books including An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change and Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration. Click to read more...	*Phil Harkins* Phil Harkins is CEO and Founder of Linkage. He is an internationally known expert in the fields of organizational development, leadership, communications, and executive coaching with clients including senior executives and teams at leading global organizations. Click to read more...	*Noel M. Tichy* Dr. Noel M. Tichy is a Prof. at the Ross School of Business & Director of the Global Business Partnership. He consults widely to clients including: Best Buy, GE, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, GM, Nokia, Nomura Securities, 3M, Daimler-Benz and Royal Dutch Shell. Click to read more...	*Linkage* Linkage is a global organizational development company providing integrated solutions including strategic consulting services, customized leadership development and training experiences, tailored assessment services, and executive coaching. Click to read more...

Reasons for Starting Your ROLD Assessment:

It will make your leadership development efforts more effective, by ensuring your strategic goals are well aligned with your leadership development efforts.
It will improve your efficiency, by taking a hard look at time and money spent. We guarantee savings in both categories that exceed the cost of the assessment.
It will provide you with opportunities to increase the number of participants, spread cost, and increase yield. In addition you will have an evaluation of how many you should be training to ensure a sufficient leadership pipeline.
It will provide you with data to support new and better ways to deliver the learning and allows for questioning the fundamental assumptions, e.g. classroom vs. on-the-job.
It will highlight the alignment vs. misalignment with other processes and systems, e.g. performance and succession

Economic Downturn Takes a Toll:

Total corporate training spending fell 11 percent in 2008
Investments in leadership development were cut despite the universal recognition in the importance of developing leaders
Senior line executives and board members demanded more quantifiable metrics to justify each and every expenditure
“During the tough economic conditions during the mid to late 1980s we abandoned our commitment to leadership development and paid a dear price for that in loss of market leadership later on. We had to relearn the hard way the critical importance of grooming leaders at every level of this company and in every location that we do business around the world”
-Tanya Clemons, IBM

ROLD

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