Developing the Global Executive - Development Dimensions ...

Taken together, it’s hard to avoid concluding that senior leaders are unduly neglectful
of their responsibilities in promoting the development of their organizations’ global
executives. But such a conclusion would leave a key question unanswered: What is
the true impact of senior leader involvement or neglect?
In order to evaluate whether having top-level support led to better program
implementation, we used as a criterion the EDPs ratings of the effectiveness of the
execution of their executive development programs. We considered those with the
highest two ratings as being most effective and those with the lowest two ratings as
being least effective. The breakout of the most and the least effective programs is
shown in Figure 12.
FIGURE 12: EFFECTIVENESS OF EXECUTION OF GLOBAL PROGRAMS
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
3%
20%
53%
18%
7%
Effectiveness
of Execution
Most
Effective
Least
Effective
Very high
High
Moderate
Low
Very low
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