Leadership Scorecard (Improving Human Performance Series) - Softcover

"The Leadership Scorecard does an outstanding job of connecting decisions about investment in the development of leadership talent to the competitive and financial success of the enterprise. It also provides practitioners and executives with a clear decision methodology to determine their optimal investment in leadership talent, as well as tools to document the impact of those investment decisions. A must for anyone involved in the development of leaders."
--Walter L. Jackson, Ph.D., Vice President, Talent Management & Strategic Staffing, Hartford Financial Services Group

"The Leadership Scorecard is a real gift to our understanding of the relationship between leadership and sustainable business success. The
books comprehensive coverage not only helps us to demonstrate the added value of leadership development but also provides a smart tool to
sway the core of our corporate values. You will gain a significant return on investment if you apply Jack Phillips and Lynn Schmidt's systematic how-to approach."
--Diederick Stoel, CEO & President, ProfitWise, the Netherlands

"In this volume, Jack Phillips and Lynn Schmidt have provided a sorely needed, robust methodology for measuring the ROI of leadership development, with the added contribution of providing strategies for converting data into monetary values. Their practical guidelines should command the attention of those charged with oversight of the company leadership development process as well as members of the top management team."
-- Robert J. Kramer, Ph.D., Principal Researcher for Leadership Development and Organization Effectiveness, The Conference Board

Strong leaders are essential to business success, which makes leadership development a business imperative in today’s competitive environment. Leaders are needed that can do more than manage - leaders are needed that can make a business great. In addition, there is increasing pressure on organizations to demonstrate the wise investment of development dollars. This requires the effective use of leadership development methods, as well as the ability to demonstrate the success of those methods. The Leadership Scorecard combines an explanation and discussion on best practice leadership development methods and incorporates ROI measurement & evaluation methodology.