Three Keys to Development: Defining and Meeting Your Leadership Challenges [Paperback]

During the course of your career, you are likely to have many different kinds of developmental experiences. You may be assigned to or seek out a challenging position that tests your limits. You may establish a relationship with a mentor. You may feel called to provide leadership for some community activity. Or you may seek out further training and educational opportunities, such as formal leadership development programs. All of these different experiences share a common path—they are avenues toward personal and professional growth. These experiences may make you feel as if your learning and development were accelerated. What caused that acceleration? How do you keep the learning momentum going once the experience ends? This guidebook shows you how to enhance the value and impact of developmental experiences.7 Why Seek Assessment, Challenge, and Support?

10 Assessment

When Is Assessment Necessary?

Assessing Yourself and Your Situation

What Assessment Tells You

15 Challenge

Challenge and Development

How to Add Challenge

20 Support

Increasing Support to Manage Challenges

How to Build Support

25 Keeping Your Balance

26 Suggested Readings

27 Background

28 Key Point Summary

This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has generated, since its inception in 1970, through its research and educational activity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands of managers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared-in a way that is distinct from the typical university depalS&