THE LEADERSHIP

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP
A Guide for Developing Successful
Leaders at All Levels
 CCL’s Leadership
Development Roadmap
meets you where
you are...
...and takes you where you want to go.
CCL knows learning to lead is an intensely Our Leadership Development Roadmap
personal experience – and one that shifts helps you match the right learning at the
over time. Our real-world approach right time for each leader, whether it’s
helps you address the reality of your Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading
situation, your organization and your goals, Managers, Leading The Function, or Leading
aligning your personal advancement to the The Organization. Our roadmap meets you
achievement of actual business objectives. where you are and takes you where you and
Our programs, custom initiatives, coaching, your organization want to go. By focusing on
and assessments are customized to deliver the skills critical for success at each level,
the outcomes that matter most to you. your organization can see faster results.
Leadership Challenges and Competencies

The Leadership Development Roadmap connects the challenges leaders face every day with the
essential skills they need to be successful. We’ve created a flexible suite of development resources
targeted to five levels of leaders:

Leading Self - Individual contributors, professional staff and emerging leaders

Leading Others - Leaders of individual contributors

Leading Managers - Experienced leaders who lead other managers or senior professional staff

Leading the Function - Senior leaders of organizational functions or divisions

Leading the Organization - Top executives leading the enterprise

Leadership skills should continue to evolve and adapt in order to meet the constantly changing
conditions and challenges of a global marketplace. CCL’s Roadmap connects leaders to the right
development at the right time. With the Roadmap, organizations have the information they need
to steer leader development, fuel sustained success and prepare all leaders for what’s next.

Browse the following pages to see the array of programs, coaching, assessments, and other
resources for each level.

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 LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES AND COMPETENCIES
CHALLENGES COMPETENCIES

• Prepare for management or • Establishing credibility

leadership role • Leading with purpose
• Build a common leadership • Delivering results
LEADING

language within an organization • Doing whatever it takes

SELF

• Increase personal effectiveness • Interpersonal savvy

and performance • Embracing flexibility
• Tolerating ambiguity
• Understanding one’s own
values and culture

• Transition from individual performer • Coaching and developing others

to leading a team • Leading team achievement
• Build relationships to get work done • Building and maintaining
LEADING
OTHERS

• Deal effectively with conflict relationships

• Solve problems successfully • Resolving conflict
• Learning to delegate
• Innovative problem solving
• Embracing change
• Adapting to cultural differences
LE V E LS

• Integrate cross-functional • Thinking and acting systemically

perspectives in decisions • Managing organizational complexity
MANAGERS
LEADING

• Handle complexity • Negotiating adeptly

• Manage politics • Selecting and developing others
• Sell ideas to senior leaders • Taking risks
L E A D E R

• Select and lead managers for • Implementing change

high performance • Managing globally dispersed teams
• Building resiliency

• Set vision and build toward • Being visionary

the future • Driving results
LEADING THE
FUNCTION

• Balance trade-offs between the • Strategic thinking and acting

short-and long-term • Creating engagement
• Align the organization for strategy • Identifying innovation opportunities
implementation for new businesses
• Working across boundaries
• Leading globally

• Set organizational direction • Creating and articulating vision

• Foster alignments across the • Creating strategic alignment
ORGANIZATION

organization • Developing a leadership and

LEADING THE

• Gain commitment for performance talent strategy aligned with

• Refine and build strong executive business strategy
persona • Leading the culture
• Executive image
• Creating a culture of innovation
• Catalyzing change
• Leading outwardly

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Core Development Programs

CCL’s Core Development Programs build the most critical skills for success at each level of
leadership. They are grounded in CCL’s “Fundamental Four” leader competencies, driven
by essential outcomes and focused on key requirements for success at each level.

CCL’s programs are deeply personal and customized to each learner. CCL’s proven model
of development integrates assessment, challenge and support, helping leaders internalize
essential lessons and create action plans for improvement.

Alumni consistently rank CCL programs among the top in the world in surveys conducted
by the Financial Times and Bloomberg Businessweek. Explore each program to find out why.
• www.ccl.org/programs

Fundamental Four Leader Competencies

Self-Awareness Learning Agility Influence Communication

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 CORE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Leadership Introduces the fundamentals of

effective leadership for greater
Fundamentals
LEADING

success, faster.
SELF

www.ccl.org/lf

Maximizing Prepares front-line managers to

achieve lasting results
Your Leadership
LEADING

through people.
OTHERS

Potential
www.ccl.org/mlp
LE V E L S

Leadership Strengthens your ability to manage

complexity, balance competing
MANAGERS

Development
LEADING

priorities and collaborate up, down

Program (LDP)® and across the organization to drive
tangible results.
LE A D E R

www.ccl.org/ldp

Leading for Enhances your ability to lead while

LEADING THE

balancing short-term and long-term

Organizational
FUNCTION

strategic perspectives.
Impact
www.ccl.org/loi

Leadership Maximizes personal leadership power

ORGANIZATION
LEADING THE

to accelerate the organization’s

at the Peak
commitment, alignment and results.

www.ccl.org/lap

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 “CCL is known globally as the gold standard in leadership
development for executives, so the senior leaders we approach
know they will be participating in a quality initiative.”
NANCY COFFEE
President and CEO, The Leadership Academy
Specialized Skill and
Specialized Audience
Development Programs

Specialized Skill and Specialized Audience Development Programs give leaders an immersion into
specific leadership topics. These highly focused experiences are working sessions, designed to help
leaders apply what they learn to their current situations – and to their future goals.

Whether leaders need to sharpen their experience in strategic leadership, build critical coaching
skills, successfully lead innovation or create commitment in a team, these programs provide deep
insight and practical tools for success.
• www.ccl.org/programs

Specialized Skill Development Programs

Specialized Audience Development Programs

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 SPECIALIZED SKILL / AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
L EA DE R LE V E LS

LEADING LEADING LEADING LEADING THE LEADING THE

SELF OTHERS MANAGERS FUNCTION ORGANIZATION

Leading Strategically
Focuses on leveraging the skills
necessary to excel as a strategic leader

Leading Teams for Impact

Strengthens ability to manage and lead teams
to experience the power of collective effort

Coaching for Greater Effectiveness

Develops skills in coaching others to increase
productivity and improve performance

Assessment Certification Workshop

Become certified to administer CCL’s powerful
suite of 360-degree assessments

Driving Results Through

Innovation Leadership
Trains leaders to connect innovation with results

Navigating Change
Provides an understanding of how a leader’s
approach to change can impact a team and
an organization

The Women’s Leadership Experience

Helps women define and implement their
own personal leadership strategy

Coaching for Human Resource Professionals

Strengthens coaching skills and shares
best practices in coaching

Leadership Development for HR Professionals

Increases leadership capacity to strengthen HR
partnerships with senior management

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Leadership Assessments

CCL’s assessments are powerful drivers of learning and change. Our assessment and feedback
process helps leaders measure where they are, clarify needs and goals, and set direction for
further development.

CCL pioneered the use of assessments and feedback in leadership development decades ago. Our
expertise and state-of-the-art, research-based assessment tools have earned the trust of thousands
of HR professionals and consultants because they:

Easily fit into existing organizational development programs and offer relevant observable
and measurable results on leadership skills managers learn through experience.

Provide options for customization that can increase relevance, ownership and advocacy
throughout the organization.

Provide statistically valid and reliable results that help individuals and teams align their
performance objectives with those of the entire organization.

Provide language options for use with non-English speaking employees.

• www.ccl.org/assessments

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 LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENTS COACHING, BLENDED LEARNING & CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS
360-Degree 360 By Design®
Customizable development tool measuring key
Assessments leadership skills and behaviors identified by
an organization

Executive Dimensions®
Address top-level leadership issues

Benchmarks®
Measure 16 skills and perspectives critical for
success and five possible career derailers

SKILLSCOPE®
Assess 15 key job-related skills essential for
managerial success

Prospector®
Gain feedback on the skills most often found in
successful executives and the behaviors needed
to acquire those goals

Global 6™
Learn how the impact of leadership style varies
across cultural boundaries

Self WorkLife Indicator™

Understand and effectively manage the
Assessments boundaries between work and family

Campbell Leadership Descriptor

Understand leadership characteristics

Job Challenge Profile

Use job assignments to develop valuable skills

Learning Tactics Inventory

Articulate preferred learning behaviors and styles

Organizational Leadership Gap Indicator

Identify and address critical skill gaps in
Assessments organizational leadership

KEYS to Creativity and Innovation

Assess organizational climate for creativity
and innovation by measuring specific
management practices

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Leadership Coaching Services

With approximately 600 coaches who collectively speak 48 different languages, CCL has one of the
largest global networks for leadership coaching services in the world. Our customized coaching services
are effective at all levels of an organization, from a first-time manager to the CEO. Our coaches also
work with teams to facilitate learning and improve performance.
• www.ccl.org/coaching

Individuals Coaching Skills Development

Executive Coaching, Awareness Program Coaching for Greater Effectiveness
for Executive Excellence (APEX)® Three-day program that develops skills to coach others
In-depth, C-suite level leadership coaching to increase productivity and improve performance
Executive Leadership Coaching Assessment Certification Workshop
Drives results with one-on-one, customized Receive certification to administer all of the 360-degree
leadership development assessments in CCL’s assessment suite
Executive Integration Coaching Coaching for Human Resource Professionals
Helps individual leaders prepare for, or excel at, Strengthens coaching skills and shares best practices
career transitions in coaching
Programmatic Follow-on Coaching Action Learning Coaching
Maintain momentum after a development program Maximizes individual leadership competencies, team
with goal-focused coaching and individual learning agility and the ability to work
within a team
Teams Action Development Coaching
Leadership Team Coaching Ensures successful implementation of strategic
Allows teams to work together and create shared initiatives while increasing an organization’s capacity
understanding to increase effectiveness to adapt to change

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 LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENTS COACHING, BLENDED LEARNING & CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS
Blended Learning & Customized Solutions

Blended Learning Options: CCL provides a variety of customizable blending learning options that
combine formal and informal learning to maximize impact. Utilized a variety of different tools like
e-learning and real-time simulations offers you development models that work when and where you
need them.
• www.ccl.org/blendedlearning

Customized Solutions: All of the offerings covered in our Leadership Development Roadmap can
be customized to meet the individual needs of a specific organization. CCL’s dedicated design faculty
is skilled in understanding the needs of your organization and working with you to develop specific
research-based modules and programs to fit your organization’s needs today and in the future.
• www.ccl.org/custom

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“ We didn’t want to take an academic or didactic approach.

Instead we wanted to fully engage our developing leaders
in a way that would bring learning to life...”
Sissy McKee
Boehringer Ingelheim Leadership Program Director

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