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Are We Making Progress? Assessing Goal-Directed Behaviors in Leadership Development Programs

Leadership development programs increasingly help participants engage in their career transitions. Therefore, these programs lead participants to establish not only development goals, which usually involve the improvement of a specific leadership competency, but also goals that relate to career adva...

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Autores principales: Velasco, Ferran, Batista-Foguet, Joan Manuel, Emmerling, Robert J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6579810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31244737
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01345
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description Leadership development programs increasingly help participants engage in their career transitions. Therefore, these programs lead participants to establish not only development goals, which usually involve the improvement of a specific leadership competency, but also goals that relate to career advancement or to achieving a more general life aspiration. Assessing goal attainment, as a measure of program impact, may take years as goals vary greatly in terms of nature, timeframe, and domain. The purpose of this study was to overcome this challenge by providing a measure of goal progress as a necessary antecedent of goal attainment, and which we operationalize through a general scale of goal-directed behaviors. Subject-matter experts assessed the content validity of the measure. Factor analysis, using three samples, revealed four dimensions identified as Sharing Information, Seeking Information, Revising the Plan, and Enacting the Plan. This new scale allows data collection as early as a few months after setting the goals, which can provide practitioners with an earlier indication of program impact and facilitate future academic studies in this field.
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spelling pubmed-65798102019-06-26 Are We Making Progress? Assessing Goal-Directed Behaviors in Leadership Development Programs Velasco, Ferran Batista-Foguet, Joan Manuel Emmerling, Robert J. Front Psychol Psychology Leadership development programs increasingly help participants engage in their career transitions. Therefore, these programs lead participants to establish not only development goals, which usually involve the improvement of a specific leadership competency, but also goals that relate to career advancement or to achieving a more general life aspiration. Assessing goal attainment, as a measure of program impact, may take years as goals vary greatly in terms of nature, timeframe, and domain. The purpose of this study was to overcome this challenge by providing a measure of goal progress as a necessary antecedent of goal attainment, and which we operationalize through a general scale of goal-directed behaviors. Subject-matter experts assessed the content validity of the measure. Factor analysis, using three samples, revealed four dimensions identified as Sharing Information, Seeking Information, Revising the Plan, and Enacting the Plan. This new scale allows data collection as early as a few months after setting the goals, which can provide practitioners with an earlier indication of program impact and facilitate future academic studies in this field. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6579810/ /pubmed/31244737 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01345 Text en Copyright © 2019 Velasco, Batista-Foguet and Emmerling. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_sort are we making progress? assessing goal-directed behaviors in leadership development programs
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6579810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31244737
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01345
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