Developing Executive Education for Your Organization

Leadership profiles are often converted into leadership inventories and used to elicit confidential 360° feedback from individual leaders, which is often provided during executive education programs. When used in conjunction with follow-on one-on-one coaching, these profiles form the basis for creating and implementing personal development plans that can result in significant behavior change and measurable improvements in leadership effectiveness. Leadership inventories are often re-administered over time to reinforce the leadership capabilities/competencies and to measure behavior change and progress on leadership development goals that are set based on the initial survey and feedback.

Another use of leadership profiles is as templates for hiring, for planning developmental assignments, and for promotion decisions. In such instances, people who display the values and leadership practices (or competencies) defined in the profile are more likely to get the job or move to the next level.

So as you can see, the steps of designing and developing an executive education strategy and program are clear. Best practices companies first perform a thorough front-end analysis. They then customize their executive education strategies and programs to fit the challenges facing the company and their specific strategies. Finally, many employ leadership profiles to clarify values and leadership practices; to provide individual 360° feedback, development, and coaching; and most importantly, to achieve measurable improvements in leadership effectiveness.