Global Executive Leadership Inventory (GELI), Participant Workbook

by Kets de Vries, Manfred F. R.

• ISBN13: 9780787974169
• ISBN10: 0787974161
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-23
• Publisher: Pfeiffer

Summary

If you are to survive in today's competitive environment, you must have the leadership skills that make you a valued member of your organization's leadership team.Global Executive Leadership Inventory (GELI) is your in-depth development tool that offers guidance for understanding your leadership abilities and shows you how to take steps to improvement. The Inventory consists of 100 action- and behavior-based questions that are designed to measure your competency within twelve areas: Visioning, Empowering, Energizing, Designing and Aligning, Rewarding and Feedback, Team Building, Outside Orientation, Global Mindset, Tenacity, Emotional Intelligence, Life Balance, and Resilience to Stress.The Inventory includes an effective self-assessment tool as well as a 360-degree component that allows you to obtain feedback from subordinates, colleagues, and superiors. Once the assessment is completed and scored, the Participant Workbook guides you through the feedback and helps to create a development plan. As a result of the GELI process, when you complete this Workbook you will be able to State advantages of and concerns about 360-degree feedback Identify twelve key characteristics of successful global leaders Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses on each of the twelve key characteristics Develop an action plan that specifies what you will do to improve your leadership competenciesAn ideal tool for examining your leadership behavior roadblocks and then taking steps toward improvement, the GELI will serve you as an essential resource on your leadership journey.

Author Biography

Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries is a clinical professor of leadership development and holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD. He is the director of the INSEAD Global Leadership Center .

Table of Contents

Global Leaders: A Definition	1	(2)
Objectives	3	(2)
360-Degree Feedback	5	(4)
Advantages of 360-Degree Feedback	5	(1)
Resistance to Feedback	6	(1)
The Feedback Process	7	(2)
Leadership Competencies	9	(2)
The Twelve Dimensions	11	(4)
Why You Can Trust the Results	15	(2)
First Impressions	17	(2)
The Johari Window	19	(2)
Points to Consider When Evaluating Your Feedback Report	21	(10)
Percentile Ranking Chart and Percentile Ranking Bar Chart	22	(1)
Item Ranking	23	(1)
Top 10 Disparities	24	(1)
Dimension Grids	24	(4)
Observers' Comments	28	(1)
Overall Evaluation	29	(2)
Developing a Personal Action Plan	31	(2)
Factors That Affect Action Plans	33	(2)
Recommendations for Action Planning and Development	35	(12)
Visioning	35	(1)
Empowering	36	(1)
Energizing	37	(1)
Designing and Aligning	37	(1)
Rewarding and Feedback	38	(1)
Team Building	38	(1)
Outside Orientation	39	(1)
Global Mindset	40	(1)
Tenacity	41	(1)
Emotional Intelligence	41	(1)
Life Balance	42	(1)
Resilience to Stress	43	(1)
Developmental Priorities	44	(3)
Completing the Letter of Intent	47	(2)
Change	49	(2)
Following Up	51	(2)
Readings/Resource List	53	(2)
About the Author	55