Accelerating Your Development as a Leader: A Guide for Leaders and their Managers

This important book is an invaluable resource for HR professionals and executive coaches who are charged with working with exceptional leaders, in order to prepare them to take on broader leadership responsibilities. Accelerating Your Development as a Leader helps to demystify the process of high-potential leadership development and translate this process into a well-defined plan of action.

In this groundbreaking book, Robert Barner an expert on leadership development outlines a powerful five-step process for increasing leaders’ readiness to assume next-level assignments. Leaders will find that they can use these steps to identify and clearly define their development goals, assess their own progress in development, extract the most from developmental assignments, improve their organizational brands, and make mid-course corrections to their planning process.

Managers, HR professionals, and executive coaches will find that they can use these steps to help leaders develop more effectively, within less time. They will also learn how to make the best use of developmental feedback, identify and manage developmental assignments, and fully engage in, and leverage managerial and third party coaching.

This book is highly recommended for anyone who is attempting to strengthen their leadership talent pipeline and develop a more systematic approach to leadership development and coaching.

“Effective leadership continues to be the most critical component to business success while remaining one of the most elusive concepts to understand. Dr. Barner has taken this complex subject and made it meaningful to leaders while providing helpful insights for practitioners. Through simple and practical techniques, this book provides a roadmap for accelerating leadership development and building a personal brand for success. Whether you’re a business leader or an Executive Coach, this book will serve as a catalyst to improving your own effectiveness and that of those you touch.”
―Kirk Thor, Ph.D., vice president, Talent Management, JC Penney

“Another homerun by Bob Barner! Leaders don’t become leaders by accident nor do they move to the next level by accident. You’ve got to have a plan, and I know of no better guidance in developing one than Accelerating Your Development as a Leader. It is comprehensive, removes the guesswork, and will surely increase your momentum.”
―Cass Wheeler, strategic consultant, coach, speaker and former CEO of The American Heart Association; and author, You’ve Got to Have Heart

“Bob Barner’s experience as a coach, corporate leader, and academician shines in Accelerating Your Development as a Leader. He outlines a practical approach to jump-starting career development work built on a foundation of sound research and trusted application.”
―Michael Fischer, vice-president, organization development and talent management, Energy Future Holdings