The Linkage Toolkit for Developing Leaders - Linkage has complied all of its proprietary methods and tools from its knowledge base, that they use to develop leaders at all levels of organizations into one toolkit. This toolkit is highly pragmatic, and has been painstakingly edited and written to provide the user with a full understanding of how to apply and use tools to the best of your leaders' advantage. It is designed with the best model of leadership development in mind - developing all aspects of leaders and managers and providing practical advice, ideas, behaviors, assessments, skill-building activities, and methods for leading themselves, others, teams, and the organization in their daily work. It is an excellent resource to create common leadership practices and lexicon across organizational boundaries in any company.

This toolkit is designed to provide managers and leaders at all levels of your organization with the right tools to become successful and effective. It provides practical advice, ideas, behaviors, assessments, skill-building activities, and methods for leading yourself and others in your daily work.

If you are using The Linkage Toolkit for Developing Leaders as a quick-reference “toolbox,” each of the four major sections is clearly labeled with tabs for easy access. These sections are:

Leading Yourself-

The first section is a baseline series of topics and tools that can help you assess and develop your general leadership abilities. Our belief is that you cannot successfully lead others until you can develop the self-awareness and maturity necessary to “lead yourself.”

Leading Individuals-

The next section focuses on your role as coach, mentor, and performance manager. Whether in a formal position of authority or not, your ability to hold powerful conversations with staff and colleagues-one-on-one-to set expectations and influence behavior is critical. This is “ground zero” for effective leadership

Leading Teams-

The engine of change and performance in the modern business enterprise is a leader's use of teams. Your roles as team sponsor, team leader, ng members' diversity to successful and innovative outcomes.

Leading Organizations-

The final section addresses the challenges some leaders face as enterprise-wide developers. The roles of organizational architect, process manager, and communicator and implementer of strategy are often the ones we are least schooled in, especially those of you with more technical (and less business) backgrounds.