Moving the Needle

What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Developing Leaders

David M. Rosch, Scott J. Allen, Daniel M. Jenkins

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9781837085439
  9781837085422
• eBook ISBN:
  9781837085453
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Moving the Needle: What We Know (and Don't) About Developing Leaders examines 34 popular and cutting-edge instructional strategies that educators and trainers have employed to help others develop the capacity to lead. Some strategies have been popular for decades—such as student group projects—while others are just now emerging—such as using generative artificial intelligence. The book is designed to be imminently practical. Each chapter describes a different strategy for development, and includes illustrations of the strategy "in action," examines the state of empirical evidence suggesting what scholars know about the strategy's effectiveness, and provides resources for where readers can learn more. For strategies with a shallower pool of evidence, the chapter provides suggestions for a future research agenda targeted at scholars interested in researching the methods and outcomes related to each strategy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editor’s Foreword
• 1 Action Learning
• 2 Artificial Intelligence and Leader Development
• 3 Using Assessment Centers for Leader Development and Assessment
• 4 Case-in-Point Methodology
• 5 Coaching for Leader Development
• 6 Creating Art for Leadership Development
• 7 Debriefing
• 8 Feedback and Peer-Feedback
• 9 Checkmate or Chance: Games as a Strategy for Leader Development
• 10 Gamification and Leader Development
• 11 Discussion as Leadership Pedagogy
• 12 Group Projects
• 13 Tell Me How You Really Feel: Utilizing Intergroup Dialogue Principles and Practices to Develop Authentic Leaders and Organizations
• 14 Improv as a Tool for Leader Development
• 15 Leading to Win: The Role of Inter-Group and Intra-Group Competition in Leadership Education
• 16 International Immersion Initiatives for Student Leader Development
• 17 Learning by Listening
• 18 Mentoring: An Evidence-Based Approach to Leader Development
• 19 Using Microexperiences to Develop Leaders Faster
• 20 Cultivating Strategic and Meaningful Relationships With Senior Leaders by Leveraging Networking Opportunities
• 21 Leadership and Outdoor Education
• 22 Peer Mentoring for Leader Development
• 23 Leader Performance Assessment
• 24 Performance-Based Learning: Gaining Competency Through Practice
• 25 Problem-Based Learning
• 26 The Process and Power of Reflection
• 27 Student Research Teams
• 28 Role-Play as a Strategy for Leader Development
• 29 Assessments and Instruments
• 30 Service-Learning
• 31 Simulations for Leader Development
• 32 Student Organization Involvement
• 33 360-Degree and Multi-Rater Feedback
• 34 Vision Statements and Personal Development Plans as Tools in Leader Development
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors