The Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation

  • 9h 51m
  • Claire Reinelt (eds), Jennifer W. Martineau, Kelly M. Hannum
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2007

With the increase in the number of organizational leadership development programs, there is a pressing need for evaluation to answer important questions, improve practice, and inform decisions. The Handbook is a comprehensive resource filled with examples, tools, and the most innovative models and approaches designed to evaluate leadership development in a variety of settings. It will help you answer the most common questions about leadership development efforts, including:

  • What difference does leadership development make?
  • What development and support strategies work best to enhance leadership?
  • Is the time and money spent on leadership development worthwhile?
  • What outcomes can be expected from leadership development?
  • How can leadership development efforts be sustained?

About the Editors

Kelly M. Hannum is enterprise associate at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) where she serves as an expert on issues related to measurement, evaluation, and research design and develops data collection tools used in research and evaluation.

Jennifer W. Martineau is the director of the Design and Evaluation Center at CCL. She serves as internal evaluation coach to CCL faculty and staff and has worked with an array of client organizations, including international for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

Claire Reinelt is research and evaluation director for the Leadership Learning Community, which works to strengthen leadership development by sharing ideas, resources, and innovative practices among evaluation professionals.

In this Book

  • The Handbook Of Leadership Development Evaluation
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evaluations
  • Leading With Theory—Using a Theory of Change Approach for Leadership Development Evaluations
  • Evalulead—An Open-Systems Perspective on Evaluating Leadership Development
  • Making Evaluation Work For The Greater Good—Supporting Provocative Possibility and Responsive Praxis in Leadership Development
  • Measuring Return on Investment in Leadership Development
  • Building Leadership Development, Social Justice, and Social Change In Evaluation Through a Pipeline Program
  • From The Inside Out—Evaluating Personal Transformation Leadership Efforts
  • Evaluating Leadership Development and Organizational Performance
  • The Importance o Local Context in Leadership Development and Evaluation
  • Evaluating Community Leadership Programs
  • Evaluating Leadership as a Strategy to Transform Complex Systems
  • Evaluating Leadership Development for Social Change
  • Evaluating Youth Leadership Development Through Civic Activism
  • Evaluating Leadership Efforts for Neighborhood Transformation
  • Strategic Uses Of Evaluation
  • Evaluation for Planning and Improving Leadership Development Programs—A Framework Based on the Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence
  • Communication In Evaluation—A Systems Approach
  • Accelerating Learning About Leadership Development—A Learning Community Approach
  • Afterword: Future Directions for Leadership—Development Evaluation
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