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The purpose of the Center for Leader Development is to provide individuals who have a passion for leadership development a home. At CLD you will find leadership development resources, discussion groups, cool links, publications and information-rich content regardless of the sector from which you hail.
The CLD Wiki is an opportunity for you to help build the world's collective knowledge on the topic of leadership development. Our goal is to categorize programs, resources, tools and literature on the topic. In the end, we hope to provide a more holistic view - serving as a clearinghouse for everything leadership development.
An Introduction to Leadership Development
The literature on leadership development is a disparate and segmented base of literature. Authors writing on the topic of leadership development hail primarily from two fields: business (e.g., Jay Conger, Albert Vicere & Robert Fulmer), and psychology (e.g., Bruce Avolio, David Day, Manuel London & Cynthia McCauley). To a smaller extent, not-for-profit foundations and the military have also made contributions; however, this study does not focus on grass roots or military notions of leadership and leadership development. Information on leadership development in organizational life is located in three primary locations: books, journal articles and through organizations such as Linkage, Inc., the Center for Creative Leadership and Lominger. Relatively little of the literature is empirically validated.This section, Introduction to Leadership Development, provides a broad overview of the literature on Leadership Development.
Leadership Organizations
A great way to learn more about leadership and leadership development is to attend a conference and/or join an organization devoted to advancing your thinking.This section is dedicated to conferences and organizations that will aid in your development as an individual developing leadership programming for business, higher education or teens.
Leadership Development Programs
Programming for Youth
Leadership development programs for teens have seen a surge in popularity in the United States and around the globe. This section, Programming for Youth, is dedicated to those who work with teens as a primary population. Click her to lern more about books, resources, tools and links that focus on youth and leadership development.
Programming for Higher Education - Non-Academic Programs
This section, Programming for Higher Education - Non-Academic Programs, is for those who have some role in developing non-degree bearing leadership development programs in higher education (e.g., Greek life, student organizations, student government, etc.).
Programming for Higher Education - Leadership Studies
This section, Programming for Higher Education - Leadership Studies, is for those who have some role in leadership studies/education.
Programming for Business & Industry
This section, Programming for Business & Industry, is for those who have some role in developing leadership development programs in business and industry.
Programming for Community & Grass Roots Initiatives
Programming for Community & Grass Roots Initiatives
Leadership Development in the Military
This section, Leadership Development in the Military, is for those who have some role in developing leadership development programs in the Military.
Programing Around the Globe
This section, Programing Around the Globe, highlights international programs or resources dedicated to developing leadership capacity in others.
The Academic Study of Leadership Development
Instruments Used in Leadership Development Programming
Instruments are a fundamental contribution to an individual’s leadership development. An American Management Association (1991) survey on workplace testing determined that 31 percent of organizations responding use assessments to evaluate employees. Another estimate is that organizations spend upwards of $100 million a year on instruments (Zemke, 1992). On the path to self-awareness, leaders must be familiar with their learning style, confrontation style, communication style, etc. According to Harland (2003), organizations utilize assessment “to enhance self awareness and self-knowledge, identify strengths and weaknesses and enhance team effectiveness” (p. 286). Hundreds of instruments exist and are constructed to examine virtually every aspect of an individual’s personality.This section examines Instruments used in Leadership Development Programming. The instruments are described and link are provided.
Leadership Development & Leadership Theory
This section examines Leadership Development & Leadership Theory. Leadership development should lie on a foundation of theory – not necessarily one specific theory, but theory nonetheless. By doing so, the leadership development initiative has a road map that not only provides a description of desired behaviors, competencies and/or skills, but also allows for evaluation down the road. The section examines how a number of mainstream theories of leadership have been applied to leadership development programs.
Leadership Development Publications
This section features a number of publications on leadership development, a list of references for this website, as well as a page which highlights our favorite books about leadership and related topics. Get started on your leadership library!
CLD Bookstore
For the amount of money being spent on leadership development in organizations, it is surprising that more has not been written on the topic - how to develop leadership capacity in others or oneself. This is a link to the CLD Bookstore, which highlights books on the topic of leadership development. In addition, we highlight a number of books that discuss leadership or some aspect therein.
Leadership Development - Books
For the amount of money being spent on leadership development, books devoted to the topic of leadership development are few and far between. The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has assembled the most comprehensive overview of the topic in its Handbook of Leadership Development (McCauley, Moxley, & Van Velsor, 2005). The handbook covers topics such as evaluation, linkage to business systems, diversity, and development tools, and discusses the organization’s philosophy on developing leadership capacity. Bruce Avolio has published three books devoted to the topic (Full Leadership Development, 1999 and Leadership Development in Balance, 2005; The High Impact Leader, 2006) and the first has close relationships with the underpinnings of transformational leadership theory and its Full-Range of Leadership model. Vicere and Fulmer’s (1996) Leadership by Design focuses on the importance of linking development to business systems and Manuel London’s Leadership Development (2002) focuses heavily upon development tools such as coaching and 360-degree assessments as well as individual dimensions such as self regulation and self-insight. Two other seminal publications important are edited books entitled The Future of Leadership Development (Murphy & Riggio, 2003) and Leader Development for Transforming Organizations: Growing Leaders for Tomorrow (Day, Zaccaro & Halpin, 2005). These two publications cover a range of topics from “Toward a Science of Leadership Development” to “e-leadership.” For a comprehensive overview of books on the topic, visit the CLD Bookstore or the "publications" area under "research." This section, Leadership Development - Books, contains books (and links) on the topic of leadership development.
Leadership Development - Journal Articles
This section, Leadership Development - Journal Articles, highlights academic articles on leadership development.
Leadership Development - Academic Journals
A journal devoted specifically to the study of leadership development does not exist. Leadership development articles hail primarily from journals that focus on management, leadership, organization development, psychology, human resources and training. The primary focus of these articles is development tools such as leadership development and 360-degree assessments, coaching, action learning, instruments, developmental relationships, etc. Rarely do they cover issues such as evaluation, adult learning, adult development and linkage to organizational context. To date, I have located only one journal article focusing on the wider scope of leadership development, David Day’s (2002) Leadership Development: A Review in Context (which itself devotes a great deal of time to development tools). This section, Leadership Development - Academic Journals, contains a list of academic journals that often contain articles on some aspect of leadership development.
Great Thinkers in Leadership Development
This section honors great thinkers who have advanced the practice and research of leadership development
