Designing Leadership Capability: What Leaders Must Become

Leadership development is everywhere. Yet many organisations still struggle to build the leadership capability they actually need. Designing Leadership Capability challenges organisations to move beyond leadership programmes and focus instead on the capability required to achieve their purpose. Building on the Leadership by Design philosophy, the book introduces the Leadership Capability Architecture(TM) and its four interconnected domains-Behavioural, Cognitive, Relational and Adaptive Capability. It then shows how organisations can intentionally design, cultivate, reinforce and sustain leadership capability, while assessing its development, demonstrating its organisational value and continually improving it through evidence and learning. Practical, research-informed and organisationally focused, Designing Leadership Capability provides leaders, HR professionals, leadership-development practitioners and organisations with an integrated approach to building leadership capability that extends beyond individual leaders and isolated development interventions. At its heart is one defining proposition: Do not begin with the leadership programme. Begin with the leadership capability the organisation requires.