09/18/2017

What Research Says About Getting the Most from Your Leadership Pipeline

How to produce leaders who can readily transition into more senior roles

Organizations understand the importance of having a robust leadership pipeline that produces a quantity of leaders who can readily transition into more senior roles at the next level. As such, they often employ a pipeline approach when formulating and executing their leadership development strategies.

In our recently published guide, Leadership Practices: What’s Proven. What’s “Worth Less.” we drew on DDI’s Leadership Databank, which includes data gathered from over 62,000 leaders and HR professionals from more than 2,400 organizations, to examine 19 leadership practices across eight categories. One of the categories we examined was how to get the most from an organization’s leadership pipeline when it comes to development.

We looked at two practices: taking less than a full pipeline approach to development and event-centric development. Here’s what we found.

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