This groundbreaking book 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.
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?
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
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