The Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation

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? This groundbreaking book—which brings together a distinguished list of contributors who share their knowledge and expertise about this important field—will help practitioners and researchers lay a foundation for the open exchange of ideas and put in place the process of application, adaptation, and subsequent learning of leadership development evaluation.

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Publisher: Jossey-Bass and CCL Press
Stock Number (Print): 2236
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ISBN Number (Print): 978-0-7879-8217-1
ISBN Number (eBook): N/A
Author: Kelly Hannum, Jennifer Martineau, Claire Reinelt
Number of Pages: 604 Pages

The Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation, Jossey-Bass & CCL, 2007
Forward by Laura C. Leviton	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvii
The Authors	xix
Introduction	1
PART ONE: DESIGNING LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT EVALUATIONS	13
1. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evaluations	19
2. Leading with Theory: Using a Theory of Change Approach for Leadership Development Evaluations	48
3. EvaluLEAD: An Open-Systems Perspective on Evaluating Leadership Development	71
4. Making Evaluation Work for the Greater Good: Supporting Provocative Possibility and Responsive Praxis in Leadership Development	111
5. Measuring Return on Investment in Leadership Development	137
PART TWO: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION IN CONTEXT	167
6. Building Leadership Development, Social Justice, and Social Change in Evaluation Through a Pipeline Program	173
7. From the Inside Out: Evaluating Personal Transformation Leadership Efforts	199
8. Evaluating Leadership Development and Organizational Performance	228
9. The Importance of Local Context in Leadership Development and Evaluation	261
10. Evaluating Community Leadership Programs	284
11. Evaluating Leadership as a Strategy to Transform Complex Systems	315
12. Evaluating Leadership Development for Social Change	343
13. Evaluating Youth Leadership Through Civic Activism	377
14. Evaluating Leadership Efforts for Neighborhood Transformation	403
PART THREE: INCREASING IMPACT THROUGH EVALUATION USE	427
15. Strategic Uses of Evaluation	433
16. Evaluation for Planning and Improving Leadership Development Programs: A Framework Based on the Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence	464
17. Communications in Evaluation: A Systems Approach	487
18. Accelerating Learning About Leadership Development: A Learning Community Approach	511
19. Continuous Learning	536
Afterword: Future Directions for Leadership Development Evaluation	559
Name Index	575
Subject Index	579
About the Center for Creative Leadership	604

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