Leaders as Teachers: Unlock the Teaching Potential of Your Company's Best and Brightest

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Does your organization make the most of its talented, dedicated leaders? If they aren’t being used to inspire, mentor, coach, and train others, then it’s time to help them—and your organization—reach their full potential.

Leaders as Teachers serves as both a strategic and practical implementation guide, designed for use by learning and human resource professionals as well as business executives, executive coaches, and high-visibility leaders. You’ll find a complete explanation of why the leaders-as-teachers approach works, with testimonials from individuals who have personally benefited from the program, and then you’ll be provided with a thorough guide to creating your own program.

No matter how large or small your organization may be, you can tailor the leaders-as-teachers approach to your situation. Use this book as a whole or in parts as you need them. It provides all the support materials—detailed plans, exercises, worksheets, sample training agendas—you’ll need to establish your own leaders-as-teachers program.

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For 10 years, Ed Betof was vice president for talent management and chief learning officer at Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a global medical technology company. He was instrumental in developing BD University, which successfully designed and implemented the leaders-as-teachers concept.

Since retiring in 2007, he has been senior fellow and academic director of Wharton Executive Education’s Executive Program in Work-Based Learning Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania, a first-of-a-kind doctoral program at a major university designed to prepare chief learning officers. He is also a faculty member of the Institute for Management Studies.

Betof’s earlier background includes key leadership roles at Hoffman-LaRoche, the Reliance Insurance Companies, and Manchester Consulting, where he created the “Newly Appointed Leader Coaching” process. He holds a doctoral degree from Temple University and has served on the American Society for Training & Development’s board of directors. Betof also has contributed to numerous journals and professional publications and was lead author of Just Promoted! How to Survive and Thrive in Your First 12 Months as a Manager (McGraw-Hill).