Career Architect Development Planner

by Michael M. Lombardo, Robert W. Eichinger

Career Architect Development Planner for creating comprehensive, multi-year career development plans. This is a set of tools for assessing and developing management and leadership skills. It includes over 100 researched-based competencies, behaviors that can stall or stop a career, and a comprehensive development planning system. the Career Architect is one component of a fully integrated set of products known as the Leadership Architect Suite, providing tools and a methodology for everything from organization development and job profiling to training, individual development, team development and succession planning. The leadership competencies remain the heart of the Suite and provide a common language for assessing and developing both individuals and organizations. The behaviors tend to come into play over a career and their importance varies by job, function, level and business. Each Leadership Architect competency is written to explain skilled, unskilled and overused definitions of the behavior. The competencies are used to create job profiles, assess individual and team skills and identify behaviors that separate superior from average Useful tools in assessing an individual’s portfolio of skills and identifying gaps between his or her current job and possible future opportunities. Career counselors, HR professionals, coaches, managers and individual learners can use the book to assess needs, identify gaps and create development plans ranging from simple, “get going immediately,” self-development plans to more comprehensive, multi-year career strategies.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Management

Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Robert Tetteroo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best reference guide ever on how to imprpve skills and competences. No nonsence but just hands out of the pockets and start changing your behavior right on the work floor. There is no self improvement guru needed except for yourself if you decided to improve yourself.

[Gretchn_red · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every HR professional and manager should be familiar with is system. It is an indispensable hiring tool from the job development stage, through on-boarding, and career development.

[Delpha · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great book to help move your career forward. Use it as a took to pinpoint activities to help overcome your opportunities. Very detailed well thought out. easy to read.

[CAC · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't believe I read the whole thing. (You read it Ralph.)

Much too long (1,100 pages) and frequently duplicative but nonetheless a really useful book to have beside you if you manage people.