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Gear-Up!
Shift Development of Your Leaders in High Gear
Overview
A scrupulously researched and expertly organized leadership development manual. The overall content may greatly benefit senior executives and HR directors. --Kirkus Review
Target Audience and Significance
This book will be of major significance to senior managers who want to apply sophisticated thinking. Van Dongens exhaustively researched book is a valuable addition to leadership literature. Clarion Review
Content and Approach
If you like a highly-refined, in-depth plan, this is a rock-solid resource. It lays out meticulous and valuable strategies for recruitment, hiring, performance and talent development and includes specific models. Blue Ink Review
Development of Leadership
This book explains the mechanics behind the development of leaders and how you can influence this in your company. It makes use of the breadth of materials on leader and adult development to come up with one integrated model for practical use. As no model fits all situations, it is built in such a way that you can also configure it to fit the uniqueness of your company.
Case Studies and Applications
The book provides various insights into industrial applications, as well as three detailed business cases on how major players in their respective industries have set up their Leader Development systems, and what we can learn from them. It uses various perspectives on the topic, learning from historical and modern-day examples as well as looking into the future.
Foundations and Models
This book provides you the foundations for a solid understanding to base your informed decisions on. It provides three different models: the Human Capital Roadmap, linking the major Human Capital Management processes; the HEART model, a graphical display of the major Leader Development processes; and an in-depth audit tool, allowing you to assess your Leadership Development processes in more detail, and finding your areas for improvement.
Tools and Audience
These tools combined with the generated understanding enable you to obtain the needed handles to get a solid grip on your own Leader Development situation. This multi-facetted book serves a varied audience, from students to experienced HR professionals, business leaders, and CEOs, all interested in the major field of interest to businesses today: how to create the next generation of leaders for their company.
