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.
| Author | Kelly M. Hannum |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 0-7879-8217-2 |
| Publisher | Wiley |
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:
| 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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