Research Overview:

This breakthrough research is one of the most comprehensive studies of trends, best-practices, and industry solutions in corporate leadership development.  Through 18 months of research with more than 750 organizations, this research identifies the most effective ways to implement leadership development programs, processes, and vendor solutions for greatest business impact.

The report includes in-depth reviews of 25 different solution providers, 34 case studies and examples, and proven models and approaches.  In summary, this research provides a complete handbook to creating a high-impact leadership development program.

In addition to this in-depth research report, Bersin & Associates now offers a customized Corporate Leadership Development Scorecard®, which benchmarks your leadership development investments against world-class programs.

Using Bersin & Associates WhatWorks® research methodology, we analyzed more than 1 million data elements to identify key business drivers, trends, and best practices.  We also interviewed more than 40 leadership development and L&D senior managers to develop specific examples and case studies throughout this report.

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Key Features of this Research:

This 400+ page report serves as a buyer's guide, best-practice report, and education program on techniques and principles of high-impact corporate leadership development.  Specifically the report includes:

1. Current trends and proven best practice models for leadership development
2. Specific action plans to help you implement each of the listed best practices
3. An analysis of the business impact of leadership development programs to help you justify investments in this area
4. Market and Vendor Analysis of the 25 top leadership vendors
5. Four (4) Vendor MarketMaps® to help you identify vendor solutions which fit your needs
6. An overview of best practices for evaluating leadership programs
7. 7 Leadership program models to help you architect your program
8. Examples and case studies of how leadership development fits into talent management
9. Over 100 graphs, charts and tables, describing trends, approaches, and solutions
10. Bonus research including 34 case studies, and two in-depth best practice studies.

Our research identifies six critical best-practices which drive high-impact programs. You will learn how to incorporate these into your organization's program:

1. Strong executive involvement.
2. Tailored leadership competencies.
3. Customized and aligned with specific business strategy.
4. Targeted for each level of leadership.
5. Comprehensive program design.
6. Integration with talent management strategy.

What You Will Learn:

As we developed this research report, we focused heavily on providing you actionable information.  This research is designed to show you how to:

1. Implement each of the six best practices.
2. Gain commitment from senior leadership for their their commitment to deep levels of involvement in leadership development.
3. Develop a business case to justify investments and potentially expand or revamp existing programs.
4. Develop a set of high-value leadership competencies for your organization.
5. Implement a blended program model that includes opportunities for learning, application and reinforcement.
6. Customize the leadership development program to drive your business strategy.
7. Integrate leadership development with succession planning and performance management to develop and maintain your leadership pipeline.
8. Select vendors that fit into your organization's strategy, size, scale, and culture.
9. Develop a pragmatic leadership program evaluation strategy.
10. Match your programs against our four-stage maturity model to identify and create a plan for moving up the maturity model in a realistic and timely way.

Extensive Market and Vendor Analysis:

Much of our ongoing research includes in-depth analysis of vendor solutions in leadership development.  We interviewed 25 leading vendors and talked with many of their clients.

The report includes detailed profiles of these companies, as well as 4 Bersin & Associates MarketMaps® that look at the vendors’ scalability, breadth of content, breadth of services, and target audience.  These MarketMaps® will help you select the right short-list of solution providers.

The 25 vendors profiled in this report include:

1. AchieveGlobal
2. American Management Association (AMA)
3. BTS
4. Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
5. Development Dimensions International (DDI)
6. eCornell
7. Human Capital Institute (HCI)
8. Impact Achievement Group (IAG)
9. Ken Blanchard Companies
10. LeaderPoint
11. Ninth House
12. Omega Performance
13. SkillSoft
14. Targeted Learning
15. Lominger International (coming in Q4 addendum)
16. Vangent (coming in Q4 addendum)
17. The Wharton School (coming in Q4 addendum)
18. Plus...7 others coming in the Q4 addendum.

Note: All licensed owners of this report will receive profiles of additional vendors at year-end in the Q4 report addendum at no additional charge.

Special Topics Covered in this Research:

How Leadership Development Differs from Management Training

Many organizations address leadership development like a training program.  This research clearly explains the difference between training and development and gives you specific examples to help you understand the entire development process.

Bersin & Associates Leadership Development Maturity Model®

Our research looked at adoption of 6 best-practices across the more than 750 organizations and found a clearly-defined four-stage maturity model for leadership development.  Organizations who evolve to the top level of this model gain a six-fold increase in business impact from their programs.   The report gives you specific ways to benchmark yourself against this model to determine specific areas of improvement.

Examples of Comprehensive Learning Approaches

In order to be effective, leadership development programs must include comprehensive learning approaches that includes training, education, application and reinforcement.  This research details 15 specific learning and delivery mechanisms that best-practice organizations use. 

Proven Leadership Development Program Models

There is no cookie-cutter solution for leadership development.   Solutions must be aligned to the specific business problems in your organization.  We share seven (7) examples of real-world leadership development program models you can use. The report analyzes these models and gives you a decision-support guide to help you develop the best model for your organization and audience.

Bonus Research Included:

This report also includes 34 case studies that include real applications of best practices.  Companies from the healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and technology industries were profiled in this report and included company sizes ranging from 600 employees to over 100,000 employees.  A sample of the companies includes:

1. Aetna
2. Alcatel-Lucent
3. Cisco Systems
4. Digitas Inc
5. EquiFirst
6. Erie Insurance
7. Hewlett-Packard
8. NBA
9. Philips Medical Systems-Ultrasound
10. Quiznos
11. Sasktel
12. Textron Inc.

This report also includes two in-depth research reports which give specific examples of best-practice leadership development solutions. These include:

1. Leadership Development at North Shore Long Island Jewish Healthcare: An in-depth review of best-practices in leadership development at one of the country's best-run, fastest-growing, most profitable regional healthcare networks.
   
   
2. Coaching to Develop Leaders and Drive Performance at Informatica: This case study illustrates how Informatica leveraged a coaching model to help managers master management best practices and disseminated this core management curricula cost-effectively, consistently and globally.

Why your Team should Read this Research:

This research is the first of its kind in the market.  It is filled with actionable and practical information to help you assess your current leadership strategy and develop an action plan that will ensure you will have strong leadership pipelines ready to take on critical positions within the company.  Readers will find dozens of clear, in-depth examples they can immediately apply to their organizations.

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