The Walker Group

Aligning HR Processes 7: Leadership succession and development

Working with managers, implement a process for ensuring the availability of talent required for future leadership positions

Define changing capabilities required

Assess current talent to define individual development needs and plans

Plan for recruitment, movement, development, and succession to address needs

Monitor implementation of actions

On-the-Job

Participate in a high level task force to witness leadership qualities in action Study the background and achievements of the company's senior management and the top management of competitors Benchmark state-of-the-art succession planning programs and systems

Education and Training

  • Executive Effectiveness (The Walker Group, offered as ain in-house workshop, 2 days, 203-431-1333)
  • Leadership and Influence: Empowerment through Shared Responsibility (Babson School of Executive Education, 781-239-4354, 1 week, $4950)
  • Leading and Managing People (Columbia University, 212-854-3395, 1 week, $4900
  • Cornell University
       ---Effective Leadership, 3 days, $1900, 607-255-1504
       ---Strategic Leadership in an Uncertain World, 1 week, $4500, 607-255-4251
  • Leadership Advantage: Challenge of the 90s (Georgia State University, 404-651-2804)
  • Harvard University (781-239-1111)
       ---The Executive as Negotiator, 2 days, $1475
       ---Managing People for Maximum Performance, 2 days, $1950
       ---Strategies for Enhancing Executive Influence, 2 days, $1950
  • Multiple Dimensions of Leadership (Indiana University, 812-855-0229)
  • Developing Managerial Effectiveness (Penn State University, 814-865-3435, 1 week, $4500)
  • Frontiers of Excellence: Lessons from Organizations that Put People First (Stanford University, 415-381-9363, Video, $95)
  • University of Chicago (312-464-8732)
       ---The Entrepreneurial Manager: Power and Influence in Organizations, 1 week, $4650
       ---Enhancing Leadership Performance: The Leader as Teacher, 1 week, $4650
       ---Negotiation and Decision Making Strategies for Managers, 1 week, $4650
  • University of Michigan (734-763-1000)
       ---Development for Competitive Advantage 5 days, $4400
       ---The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level, 3 days, $4000
       ---Program for Management Development, 2 weeks, $9000. Programs also held in Barcelona($14,000) and Bangalore ($13,000)
       ---Management of Managers, 1 week, $4850
  • UCLA, 310-825-2001
       ---Leadership and Team Effectiveness, 5 days, $4500
       ---Vitality, Creativity and Innovation in Organizations, 1 week, $4500
       ---Strategic Leadership Institute: Developing Management Leaders for the Global Information Age, 4 weeks, $22,500
       ---Women's Leadership Institute, 5 days, $4950
       ---African-American Leadership Institute, 5 days, $4950
       ---Latino Leadership Institute, 5 days, $4950
  • University of Virginia (804-924-3000)
       ---Developing Managerial Excellence, 3 weeks, $14,500)
       ---Leadership for Extraordinary Performance, 1 week, $5300
       ---Managing Critical Resources: Developing a General Management Perspective, 2 weeks, $10,600
       ---Creating the Future: The Challenge of Transformational Leadership, 1 week, $5300
       ---Power and Leadership, 1 week, $5300
  • Executive Team Dynamics: When All the Members Are Leaders (the Wharton School, 215-898-1776, 5 days, $5950)
  • The Leadership Challenge (INSEAD, Video by Professor Manfred Kets de Vries, $699, Brussels 32-2-421-4311)
  • Shaping Business Competitiveness through Leadership Development (Human Resource Planning Society, 212-490-6387, 2 days, $1095)
  • Conference Board (212-339-0345)
       ---Leadership Redefined: Leveraging the Talent of Women In Your Business, 2 days, $1425
       ---The New Leadership: Visions for the 21st Century, 1 day, $995
  • Disney Approach to Leadership Excellence (Disney Institute, 407-828-2402, 3 days, $2895)
  • Effective Leadership (CR-ROM) (Maxim Training, UK 01273 204100)
  • Making Managers into Leaders (Enlightened Leadership International, 800-780-7910, 1 day, $299)
  • Facilitative Leadership: How Successful Leaders Increase Productivity, Commitment and Participation (Interaction Associates, 800-347-8352, 3 days, $1595)
  • Developing Global Leadership in Organizations (Intercultural Communications Institute, 503-297-4622, 1 week)
  • Leadership Excellence (NTL Institute, 800-777-LABS, 7 days, $1999)
  • Center for Creative Leadership: Thinking, Acting, Influencing (919-545-2810)
       ---Developing the Strategic Leader, 1 week, $3900
       ---Foundations of Leadership, 3 days
       ---Leadership and High Performance Teams, 1 week, $7400
  • Linkage, Inc. (781-862-3157)
       ---Developing Leadership Competencies, 2 days, $1095
       ---Powerful Conversations for Management and Leadership Effectiveness, 2 days, $1095
       ---Women in Leadership, 3 days, $1495
       ---Emerging Leader Program, 1 week, $5495
       ---Executive Leadership Development Program, 3 days, $1995
       ---Emotional Intelligence Summit and Exposition, 2 days, $1095
       ---Succession Management Conference, 2 days, $1095
  • American Management Association (518-891-1500)
       ---Executive Effectiveness Course, 2 Units/One Week Each, $3750
       ---Succession Planning That Works, 2 days, $1695
       ---Developing Executive Leadership, 3 days, $1575
       ---Preparing for Leadership: What It Takes to Take the Lead, 2 days, $1195; CD-ROM, $295
  • International Quality and Productivity Center (973-256-0211)
       ---Using the Corporate University for Management Development and Succession Planning, 2 days, $1495
       ---Designing and Implementing Effective Succession Planning and Management Development, 2 days, $1495)
  • Executive Competencies and Development (American Conference Institute, 416-926-8200, 2 days, $1195)
  • Attend a Major Conference on Management Development; e.g., Conference Board (212-339-0345), Linkage, Inc. (781-862-3157), American Management Association (518-891-1500), or International Productivity and Quality Center (973-256-0211)

Reading

  • Leadership Development Handbook (Linkage, Inc., 781-862-3157)
  • New Dimensions in Leadership (AMACOM, 518-891-1500)
  • Leaders on Leadership (AMACOM, 518-891-1500)
  • Leadership Development: Programs and Practices, Future Directions, Examples and Models (AMACOM with the Saratoga Institute, 518-891-1500)
  • The Conference Board (212-339-0345)
       ---Corporate Practices in Management Development, Report No. 1158, 1996
       ---Bridging the Leadership Gap: An Executive Summary, Report No. ES-1190, 1997
       ---Succession Planning, Human Resource Executive Review, 1994)
       ---Developing Leaders, HR Executive Review, Report No. HRER-21, 1999
  • Leadership (Harvard Business Review Reprint Series #49515, 617-496-1449)
  • Tony Allesandra, Charisma: Seven Keys to Developing the Magnetism that Leads to Success (Warner Books, 2000)
  • Terry D. Anderson, Transforming Leadership: Equipping Yourself and Others to Build the Leadership Organization (2nd ed.) (St. Lucie Press, 1997)
  • Bart Barthelemy, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Breakthrough Leadership (St. Lucie Press, 1997)
  • James A. Belasco and Ralph C. Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead (Warner Books, 1994)
  • Warren Bennis, On Being a Leader (Addison-Wesley, 1989)
  • Warren Bennis and Robert Townsend, Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization (William Morrow, 1995)
  • Warren Bennis, Why Leaders Can't Lead (Jossey-Bass, 1990)
  • Warren Bennis, Managing People Is Like Herding Cats (Executive Excellence Publishing, 1997)
  • Ingman Bjorkman, et al., Developing Managerial Resources in China (Financial Times, 1997)
  • Marvin Bower, The Will To Lead (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
  • Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
  • Ira Chaleff, The Courageous Follower: Standing Up and For Our Leaders (Berrett-Koehler, 1995)
  • James Champy, Reengineering Management (Harper Business, 1995)
  • James Champy and Nitin Hohria, The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey (Perseus, 2000)
  • Dan Ciampa and Michael Watkins, Right from the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)
  • Jay A. Conger, The Charismatic Leader (Jossey-Bass, 1987)
  • Jay A. Conger, Learning to Lead (Jossey-Bass, 1994)
  • Jay A. Conger and Beth Benjamin, Building Leaders: How Successful Companies Develop the Next Generation (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
  • Daryl Conner, Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organization (Wiley, 1998)
  • Stephen R. Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership (Fireside, 1992)
  • Philip Crosby, The Absolutes of Leadership (Pfeiffer & Co., 1996)
  • Max DePree, Leadership Is An Art (Doubleday, 1989)
  • Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Elizabeth Florent-Treacy, The New Global Leaders: Richard Branson, Percy Barnevik, David Simon and the Remaking of International Business (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
  • David Dotlich and James Noel (Action Learning: How the World's Top Companies Are Recreating their Leaders and Themselves (Jossey-Bass, 1998)
  • Peter F. Drucker, The Executive in Action (HarperBusiness, 1996)
  • Peter F. Drucker and Nan Stone, Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management (Harvard Business Review Books, 1998)
  • Peter Drucker, Lessons in Leadership (Video, Facilitator's Guide, and Workbook) (Jossey-Bass)
  • John E. Flaherty, Peter Drucker: Shaping the Managerial Mind (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
  • Gerald Faust et al., Responsibile Managers Get Results: How the Best Find Solutions Not Excuses (AMACOM, 1998)
  • Philip R. Harris, High Performance Leadership: HRD Strategies for the New Work Culture (HRD Press, 1994)
  • David Giber et al., Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook (Jossey-Bass, 2000)
  • David Heenan and Warren Bennis, Co-Leaders: The Power of Great Partnerships (John Wiley & Sons, 1999)
  • Gary Heil, et al., Leadership and the Customer Revolution (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994)
  • Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith and Richard Beckhart (eds.), The Leader of the Future (Jossey-Bass, 1996)
  • Frances Hesselbein and Paul Cohen (eds.), Leader to Leader (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
  • Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith and Iain Somerville (eds.), Leading Beyond the Walls (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
  • Linda A. Hill, Becoming a Manager (Harvard Business School Press, 1992)
  • C. Ray Johnson, CEO Logic: How to Think and Act Like a Chief Executive (Career Press, 1998)
  • Rosabeth Moss Kanter, On the Frontiers of Management (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
  • Jon R. Katzenbach, Teams at the Top: Unleashing the Potential of Both Teams and Individual Leaders (Harvard Business School Press, 1998)
  • Kevin R. Kehoe, Expanding Leadership Impact (Richard Change Associates, 1994)
  • J. Bernard Keys and Robert Fulmer, Executive Development and Organizational Learning for Global Success (International Business Press, 1998)
  • John P. Kotter, The New Rules (Brace-Park Press, 1997)
  • John P. Kotter, A Force for Change: How Leadership Differs from Management (Free Press, 1990)
  • John P. Kotter, John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)
  • James Kouszes and Barry Posner, The Leadership Challenge (Jossey-Bass, 1995)
  • Peter Krass (ed.), The Book of Leadership Wisdom (John Wiley & Sons, 1998)
  • Robert A. Levit and Christina Gikakis, Shared Wisdom: Best Practices in Development and Succession Planning, (Human Resource Planning Society, 1995)
  • Jean Lipman-Blumen, The Connective Edge: Leading in an Interdependent World (Jossey-Bass, 1996)
  • M. M. Lombardo and R.W. Eichinger, Eighty-Eight Assignments for Development In Place (Center for Creative Leadership, 1989)
  • Joan Magreta (ed.), Managing in the New Economy (Harvard Business Review Book, Reprint Series, 1999)
  • Abraham H. Maslow, Maslow on Management (John Wiley & Sons, 1998)
  • Gordon McBeath, Practical Management Development (Blackwell, 1994)
  • Morgan W. McCall, Jr. and M.M. Lombardo, The Lessons of Experience and Off the Track: Why and How Successful Executives Get Derailed (Center for Creative Leadership, 1987)
  • Morgan W. McCall, Jr., High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
  • Cynthia D. McCauley (ed.), Center for Creative Leadership: Handbook of Leadership Development (Jossey-Bass, 1998)
  • John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Witch Doctors (New York Times Books, 1996)
  • Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization (Sage, 1997)
  • Ann Morrison, The New Leaders: Guidelines on Leadership Diversity in America (Jossey-Bass, 1992)
  • Russ Moxley, Leadership and Spirit: Breathing New Vitality and Energy into Individuals and Organizations (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
  • Brian Muirhead and William Simon, High Velocity Leadership: The Mars Mission Method to "Faster-Better-Cheaper" (HarperBusiness, 1999)
  • Emmett C. Murphy, Leadership I.Q.: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders (John Wiley & Sons, 1996)
  • Burt Nanus, Visionary Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 1995)
  • Burt Nanus and Stephen Dobbs, Leaders Who Make a Difference (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
  • Ed Oakley and Doug Krug, Enlightened Leadership: Getting to the Heart of Change (Fireside, 1994)
  • William J. O'Brien, The Soul of Corporate Leadership: Guidelines for Value-Centered Governance (Pegasus Communications, 1998)
  • James O'Toole, Leadership A to Z: A Guide for the Appropriately Ambitious (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
  • Harrison Owen, The Spirit of Leadership: Liberating the Leader in Each of Us (Berrett-Koehler, 1999)
  • William J. Rothwell, Effective Succession Planning (AMACOM, 1994)
  • Edgar H. Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership (2nd ed.) (Brace-Park Press, 1997)
  • Peter Senge et al., The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (Currency-Doubleday, 1999)
  • Robert Slater, Get Better or Get Beaten! 31 Leadership Secrets from GE's Jack Welsh (Irwin Professional Publishing, 1994)
  • Gregory P. Smith, The New Leadership: Bringing Creativity and Innovation to the Workplace (St. Lucie Press, 1997)
  • Neil H. Snyder and Angela P. Clontz, The Will To Lead: Managing with Courage and Conviction in the Age of Uncertainty (Irwin Professsional Publishing, 1996)
  • Florence M. Stone and Randi Sachs, The High-Value Manager (Pfeiffer & Co., 1996)
  • Florence M. Stone, The Manager's Balancing Act (AMACOM, 1997)
  • Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and Ken McElrath, The Ascent of a Leader: How Ordinary Relationships Develop Extraordinary Character and Influence (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
  • Noel Tichy, The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level (HarperBusiness, 1997)
  • Noel Tichy and M. Devanna, The Transformational Leader (John Wiley & Sons, 1986)
  • Patrick L. Townsend and Joan E. Gebhardt, Five-Start Leadership: The Art and Strategy of Creating Leaders at Every Level (Jossey-Bass, 1997)
  • Dave Ulrich, Jack Zenger and Norm Smallwood, Results-Based Leadership (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)
  • Albert Vicere and Robert Fulmer, Leadership by Design: How Benchmark Companies Sustain Success through Investment in Continuous Learing (Harvard Business School Press, 1998)
  • Stephen J. Wall and Shannon Rye Wall, The New Strategists: Creating Leaders at All Levels (Free Press, 1995)
  • Randall White, Philip Hodgson and Stuart Crainer, The Future of Leadership (Pitman, 1996)
  • Jonathan Winterton and Ruth Winterton, Developing Managerial Competence (Routledge-UK, 1999)
  • Rebecca Luhn Wolfe, Systematic Succession Planning (Crisp Publications, 1996)
  • Jean Woodall and Diane Winstanley, Management Development: Strategy and Practice (Blackwell, 1996)
  • Dale Zand, The Leadership Triad (Oxford University Press, 1997)

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