Real Time Leadership Development - by Paul R Yost & Mary Mannion Plunkett Paperback

Book Synopsis

Real Time Leadership Development provides research and practices-based guidance and tools for leaders to use to fully leverage experience-based development for their own growth and to build the next generation of leaders in their organization.

• Teaches you how to identify the key experiences, competencies, and relationships that are critical in the development of current and future leaders.
• Answers the question "Leadership for the sake of what?" by helping you identify your leadership principles and think about your legacy.
• Provides guidance on organization-wide metrics such as employee surveys, succession management metrics, and performance development plan audits.
• Includes "Taking Action" sections that provide tools for developing future talent in individuals, teams, and organizations.
• Discusses relevant books, articles, and research studies that deepen your understanding of the subject matter.

From the Back Cover

"This book is a highly accessible, comprehensive compendium of leadership development strategies and a 'must read' for anyone trying to improve his or her own skills or those of another."
Nancy T. Tippins, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Managing Principal, Valtera Corporation

"Drs. Yost and Plunkett have achieved a great feat - delivering practical developmental advice that is rooted in research. I highly recommend their book to anyone who wishes to develop stronger leadership skills."
Robert E. Lewis, Ph.D., Director, APT, Inc.

"Mary Mannion Plunkett and Paul Yost provide a well researched, authentic, and easy to apply guide for managers and HR professionals in understanding and applying leadership development principles. Based on the authors' real experiences in corporate settings, this is advice and counsel you should adopt as your own."
Peter M. Morton, VP Leadership Development (retired), The Boeing Company; VP Human Resources (retired), Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Real Time Leadership Development provides guidance and tools, based on research and practices that leaders can use to fully leverage experience-based development for their own growth and to build the next generation of leaders in their organization. This book focuses on how leaders can execute business strategy and develop leadership potential in themselves and in their organizations at the same time. Practical checklists and assessment tools throughout the volume provide indispensable help to current and aspiring leaders.

Review Quotes

"Their commitment is obviously because they believe so strongly in real-time leadership, but it is also because they want to communicate across the practitioner/researcher divide and show practitioners ways that knowledge gained from research can be built into leadership development on the job." (Gender in Management, July 2010)

About the Author

Paul R. Yost, Ph.D., teaches in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology graduate program at Seattle Pacific University and serves as president of Yost & Associates, Inc., specializing in talent management, leadership development, and continuous learning. He previously served as Senior Research Specialist at Microsoft and Manager of Leadership Research at The Boeing Company

Mary Mannion Plunkett, Ph.D., has more than 18 years experience in the field of leadership and organization development including roles with The Boeing Company, Ernst & Young LLP and McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company. She most recently served as the Head of Talent Management for Lehman Brothers Europe and the Middle East and as Vice President Executive Development, for BP, plc.

Series Editor
Steven G. Rogelberg Ph.D., is Professor and Director of Organizational Science, at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He is a prolific and nationally recognized scholar. He is the current Editor of Journal of Business and Psychology. Besides his academic work, he founded and/or led three successful talent management consulting organizations/units.