Leaders as Teachers details how to create a leadership development program that employs your current leadership team to inspire, mentor, and coach your up-and-coming leaders. Learn how to empower future leaders to reach their full potential, while also helping your company meet strategic goals, improve communications, and strengthen organizational culture.

Table of Contents

• Foreword by Edward F. Ludwig, chairman and chief executive officer, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Leaders as Teachers: Unlocking the Teaching Potential of Your Best and Brightest
• 2 Why the Leaders-as-Teachers Approach Works: Six Strategic Organizational Benefits
• 3 A Role for Every Leader: Dozens of Ways Leaders Can Teach
• 4 Yes, Where You Work! Why Leaders Want to Teach and Come Back for More
• 5 Defying Gravity: Orchestrating a Leaders-as-Teachers Change Process
• 6 Help Your Leaders Be Stars: The Four Principles for Recruiting and Preparing Leaders to Teach
• 7 Make Learning Content Come Alive: Helping Leaders Spark Active Learning Experiences
• 8 Marine Boot Camp Tight: Answering Nine Key Questions to Ensure Successful Operations
• 9 Wrapping Up and Getting Started
• Appendix: Content of the BD Leadership Development Program
• References and Sources
• Additional Resources
• About the Author
• About the American Society for Training & Development
• About Berrett-Koehler Publishers