I’m currently part of a team developing our hospital’s leadership development program. While traditional classroom instruction, eLearning, mentoring and cohorts are included, with budgets tightening, and workload increasing, we are now, more than ever, committed to ensuring learning and development are taking place within the work itself (action learning and stretch assignments). To aid in this work, I’ve created a simple spreadsheet aimed at cataloging the various opportunities throughout the organization. Our overall goal with this tool is to provide our leadership development coordinator with a comprehensive, organization-wide “database” of  opportunities for leaders to either demonstrate or develop, while tangibly advancing the work. Fields included are aimed at making it easier to “filter” these opportunities to meet the specific needs of the individual and the organization, and include:

• Name of the Opportunity
• Brief Description of the Opportunity
• Brief Description of the Assignment
• Estimated Time Requirements for the Leader
• Core Competencies (that are needed, and can therefore be demonstrated or developed within the work)
• Tie to our Strategic Plan 
• Tie to our Operating Plan

Please note, you can change the drop-downs within each cell from the “DropDowns” tab. If you would like to modify or add more drop-downs, you can find instructions to do so by searching “Create a drop-down list from a range of cells” within Excel’s Help.

While we’ve used action learning and stretch assignments in our leadership development programs in the past, we have never done so to this scale. If you have – please comment on your experiences, best practices and lessons learned. Thanks in advance for your help!

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