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Succeed as a CHRO With a Leadership Development Program

Guide the organization toward a promising future by embracing leadership development.

  • CHROs who don’t prioritize their own development to meet expectations and support their organization risk falling behind.
  • However, it is often difficult for CHROs to find time in their busy schedules, overcome feelings of vulnerability, and adopt a dynamic learning mindset. These barriers often prevent CHROs from prioritizing their own leadership development.

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  • Get on-demand project support
  • Get advice, coaching, and insight at key project milestones
  • Go through a Guided Implementation to help you get through your project

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Critical Insight

  • In an environment of constant disruption, CHROs require key competencies to support their organizations.
  • A planful approach is required to keep personal development off the backburner and help the organization navigate change and succeed.

Impact and Result

  • Adopt a planful approach to creating a development plan to overcome common barriers. Scheduling time for development, aligning with organizational strategy, and owning personal growth are key to prioritizing and following through on personal development.
  • Build a customized plan to focus CHRO development on key leadership competencies that will support personal success and maximize impact on the organization.

Succeed as a CHRO With a Leadership Development Program Research & Tools

2. Create a personal CHRO development plan

Identify development opportunities and build a development plan.

3. Implement and plan for continuous development

Become accountable for development plans, assess effectiveness, and continually update the plan.

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About McLean & Company

McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 4 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Identify your development priorities
  • Call 1: Discuss how to prioritize competencies for development based on organizational and personal needs.
  • Call 2: Examine what’s needed to create the personal 360-degree feedback survey and advice on how to review the results.

Guided Implementation 2: Create your CHRO development plan
  • Call 1: Discuss how to select development activities and build overall development plan.

Guided Implementation 3: Implement and plan for continuous development
  • Call 1: Discuss how to maintain accountability, assess effectiveness, and continually update the development plan.

Contributors

  • Melissa Austin – CHRO, Impact Fulfillment Services
  • Bob Bale – President, Wildland Restoration International
  • Kristy Blackman – Former VP, HR, The Lange Construction Corporation
  • Jennifer Bledsoe – VP of Operations, Meyer Corporation
  • Scott Bohannon – Former CEO, Info-Tech Research Group
  • Maryjo Charbonnier – CHRO, Wolters Kluwer
  • Paula Conrad – Coaching Practitioner, Paula Conrad Coaching
  • Lisa Fain – CEO, Center for Mentoring Excellence
  • Dawn Frail – President, Eagle Vision leadership Development Group
  • Bill Goggin – Director, Diploma in Adult Education, St. Francis Xavier University
  • John Hannah – Former SVP & CHRO, Purolator
  • Billie Hartless – CHRO, Mitel
  • John Lucas – Principal Consulting Partner, True North Human Capital Consulting, LCC
  • Jackie Meagher – Former VP of HR, Info-Tech Research Group
  • Michelle Nasser – International Executive Coach, Michelle Nasser Group Intl.
  • Liza Provenzano – Principal, SparkHR
  • Drew Railton – Managing Partner, Caldwell Partners
  • Scott Slipy – CHRO, Symphony.com
  • Ronald Thomas – Former CEO, Great Places to Work Gulf
  • Eileen Timmins – President and Founder, Aingilin
  • Mardi Walker – Executive Counselor, McLean & Company
  • Mary-Alice Vuicic – Former EVP HR & Labour Relations, Loblaw Companies Limited
  • Shelley Zane – Former President, Leaderz Matter Consulting