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Overview:Join us to learn best practices for designing successful strategies, programs and the use of assessments for developing leaders through coaching. Learn how to design and implement a coaching intervention for either an individual leader and/or a large number of high potentials.

A variety of different leadership assessment tools will be reviewed and presented. Find out how to select a leadership coach. Determine which metrics you can use to evaluate the effectiveness and contribution of your leadership coaching program to the organization. In addition, retain and engage your top leadership talent.

We will also share several innovative case studies from organizations that are successfully growing their talent from within. Gain new ideas to inform your internal development and succession planning efforts during 2015.

Why should you attend: According to recent studies, many companies in all industries are lacking the quality and depth of executive talent needed to grow and compete successfully in the future.

A business environment characterized by more frequent disruption and complex strategic challenges means that competent leaders who can manage effectively in the new social age, will become more and more critical for the long term sustainability of any organization.

Although there is a strong need for leadership "bench strength" budgets and time available for employee development are lean, so more and more companies are looking for cost effective on the job development methods.

Join us to learn about how leadership coaching has proven to be effective to address a large variety of development needs.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• How to determine when a leader could benefit from coaching
• How to select a leadership coach
• What type of assessments to use to determine development needs
• The pros and cons of strengths based coaching
• How to successfully manage leader resistance to coaching and get leaders to take responsibility for their own development
• The ROI of hiring a leadership coach
• Case studies from technology, consumer products and health care companies
• Your Questions

Who Will Benefit:

• HR Professionals
• Line Managers
• Chief Human Resource Officers
• HR Directors and Managers
• Employment Managers
• Compensation Specialists
• Training Directors
• Financial Managers
• Executive Team Members