Career Architect Development Planner, 4th Edition

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. Read more