Book Description:
Unique application of the scorecard methodology to leadership development programs.
From the Back Cover:
Business/Human Resources
The Leadership Scorecard
Jack Phillips and Lynn Schmidt
"The Leadership Scorecard does an outstanding job of connecting decisions about investment in the development of leadership talent to the competitive and financial success of the enterprise. It also provides practitioners and executives with a clear decision methodology to determine their optimal investment in leadership talent, as well as tools to document the impact of those investment decisions. A must for anyone involved in the development of leaders."
- Walter L. Jackson, Ph.D., Vice President, Talent Management & Strategic Staffing, Hartford Financial Services Group
"The Leadership Scorecard is a real gift to our understanding of the relationship between leadership and sustainable business success. The books comprehensive coverage not only helps us to demonstrate the added value of leadership development but also provides a smart tool to sway the core of our corporate values. You will gain a significant
return on investment if you apply Jack Phillips and Lynn Schmidt's systematic how-to approach."
- Diederick Stoel, CEO & President, ProfitWise, the Netherlands
". Jack Phillips and Lynn Schmidt have provided a sorely needed, robust methodology for measuring the ROI of leadership development, with the added contribution of providing strategies for converting data into monetary values."
- Robert J. Kramer, Ph.D., Principal Researcher for Leadership Development and Organization Effectiveness, The Conference Board
Strong leaders are essential to business success, which makes leadership development a business imperative in today's competitive environment. Leaders are needed that can do more than manage - leaders are needed that can make a business great. In addition, there is increasing pressure on organizations to demonstrate the wise investment of development dollars. This requires the effective use of leadership development methods, as well as the ability to demonstrate the success of those methods. The Leadership Scorecard combines an explanation and discussion on best practice leadership development methods and incorporates ROI measurement & evaluation methodology.
The Leadership Scorecard will be of interest to CEO's, executives, managers and professionals involved in leadership development, coaching and mentoring programs, action learning projects, training and performance improvement. Features include:
* Scorecard model in a step-by-step process
* Case studies integrated throughout the chapters to support application in an organizational setting.
* Proven measurement and evaluation techniques
Written by two of the most well-respected authors in the field, they make a case that strong leadership does have an impact on the bottom-line and outline the benefits to the organization of implementing a leadership scorecard.
Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D., is Chairman, ROI Institute, Inc. and a renowned expert of measurement and evaluation. He provides consulting services for Fortune 500 companies in the USA and to organizations in 40 countries.
Lynn Schmidt is a business executive with extensive experience in leadership and organization development who has implemented measurement and evaluation techniques in a number of organizations. She is a frequent presenter on the topic of leadership and measurement and evaluation at national and international conferences.
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