There is no single path to professional success.

Paths to Improvement: Navigating Your Way to Success (previously published as Broadband Talent Management) has been enhanced to take you beyond the traditional approaches to development: fixing weaknesses or augmenting strengths. Used in isolation, these two approaches often are insufficient. This book introduces the many possible paths to improvement.

Paths to Improvement: Navigating Your Way to Success offers 14 ways to improve results on the job, outlining detailed plans in:

• Deeper Exploration
• Direct Skill Building
• Alternative Paths
• Demonstrating Skill
• Accepting the Consequences

Find the improvement plan that is right for you.

This new edition, rich in resources, examples, and research, offers tools to help you determine which plan is right for you and get you started on your way to success.

Paths to Improvement: Navigating Your Way to Success is for:

• Individuals who are working with a coach
• Motivated individuals who don’t have access to a coach
• Mentors, bosses, HR professionals—anyone who helps others improve their personal effectiveness

Based on the Korn Ferry Leadership Architect™ Global Competency Framework (38 competencies)

The Korn Ferry Leadership Architect™ Global Competency Framework is an easy to use, illustrated reference for quickly familiarizing yourself with the new competency framework and its surrounding research.

Included in this reference are:

• 38 new competencies, as well as their definitions, broken down into 12 clusters and 4 factors
• 10 career Stallers and Stoppers with definitions broken down into 3 clusters
• Developmental difficulty by organizational level
• Supply of the competency in the market place by organizational level and by region
• Performance correlations by organizational level and by region

The Korn Ferry Leadership Architect™ Global Competency Framework is for:

• Building success profiles
• Developing individuals
• Assessing developmental difficulty
• Highlighting themes across factors and clusters

Based on Korn Ferry Leadership Architect™ Global Competency Framework (38 competencies)

The FYI® for your improvement is an easy-to-use competencies development guide based on the Korn Ferry Leadership Architect™ Global Competency Framework.

Identify development needs. Create targeted development plans.

Each chapter is dedicated to one of the 38 Korn Ferry Leadership Architect™ competencies, as well as chapters on 10 career stallers and stoppers. In these chapters you’ll find:

• Competency definitions.
• Stallers and Stoppers definitions
• (CARS) – skilled, less skilled, talented and overused skill content
• Possible causes of lower skill
• Tips to develop each competency
• Job assignments
• Suggested readings and deep dive learning links

Enable More Productive Coaching Conversations

The Paths to Improvement: Coaching Reference Guide summarizes the 14 plans from the Paths to Improvement: Navigating Your Way to Success book and offers quick and easy reference, making coaching conversations simpler and more effective.

The Coaching Reference Guide is for:

• Coaches and managers who are helping individual employees address their critical-skill gaps
• Executives responsible for talent and human resource management
• Proactive, self-sufficient individual learners who want to work through a plan for improving a mission-critical skill

Using the Coaching Reference Guide

Coaches can use the Coaching Reference Guide to:

• Choose the best plan for the current situation and skill level
• Answer the coaching questions provided in each of five steps to improvement
• Gain buy-in by using the plan template to set a goal and create an interim and longer-term plan

Motivated individuals will find the Coaching Reference Guide an invaluable resource for:

• Assessing their own skill levels—and skill gaps
• Determining which plan is most appropriate
• Setting a goal and monitoring progress