What increases impact of leadership development initiatives? Here are 7 factors affecting the success of organizational investments in talent development.
Designing Leadership Development
Home > Leadership Development Solutions > Tools & Training Materials > Discovery Process
Through our discovery process, we gather insights about your organization to optimize and design leadership development solutions for maximum results.
Our leadership experts work closely with client organizations to help surface the sometimes-subtle factors supporting — or getting in the way of — accomplishing what matters most.
We work collaboratively with you to ensure that our customized leadership training solutions align with your business strategy and prioritize the strongest levers of impact. Our discovery process brings together our extensive knowledge and experience across the fields of leadership development, assessment, research, and evaluation.
How We Approach Designing Leadership Development: By Partnering With You for Deep Discovery
Our Discovery Process Starts With Foundational Insights
Our discovery process highlights where leadership development will have the greatest impact for your organization, and identifies the critical objectives, timing, and other elements necessary for designing leadership development solutions that are truly transformational and that will deliver results that matter to you.
When we’re designing leadership development, we use multiple approaches to discovery to guarantee an effective leadership development investment. Our foundational discovery processes include interviews, focus groups, communications with stakeholders, and the review and analysis of relevant organizational materials. Insights generated are used to gain stakeholder support and optimize designing leadership development solutions in a way that represents the culture, vision, and business needs of your organization.
Our cutting-edge leadership analytics tools borne out of our decades of pioneering research can be leveraged as well. Analytics-driven insights use data from the targeted population and stakeholders to inform decisions about designing leadership development, improving solution impact, and enabling you to measure ROI on your investment. From there, we also offer additional analytics-driven insights.
Our Analytics-Driven Discovery Insights for Designing Leadership Development
Leadership Gap Indicator
Our proprietary Leadership Gap Indicator is a rigorously research-based instrument that provides our leadership experts who are partnering with you for designing leadership development with the ability to target interventions by identifying gaps between your current and future leadership capability needs.
CCL Fusion
CCL Fusion is a predictive analytics tool we use in designing leadership development. It uses outcomes important to your organization, behavioral ratings, and employee engagement data to help make better decisions around which leadership skills, behaviors, competencies, and mindsets to focus on developing.
What Our Clients Are Saying
At CCL, we measure success by lives touched and impact made. That’s why the organizations we work with and the leaders we transform consistently tell us the same thing: their experience with us is a game-changer. We’ve been designing leadership development that transforms lives (and entire organizations) for over 5 decades.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
“My personal experience from partnering with CCL on our initial Asia Pacific Leadership Development Program is that CCL has begun to demonstrate its value through its resources in the region. We want to take advantage of CCL’s capability to design and deliver learning. We really appreciate CCL’s efforts to create impact and deliver success through its customized solution for us.”
Cindy Tang
Director, L&D and Talent Management
SPX Asia Pacific Corporate Services (China)
“I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating and partnering with CCL for my organization’s early career development program. The CCL team brings with them a wealth of knowledge and we were able to design a successful virtual program for our participants. Execution was also met with great feedback. Looking forward to our continued partnership!”
Kevin Quek
Talent & Leadership Consultant (ASEAN)
Siemens Pte Ltd
Impact of Partnering With Us for Discovery & Designing Leadership Development
What our clients are saying about partnering with us to craft custom learning journeys for their leaders:
would recommend the course to others
0
%
say the course was worth the time and effort
0
%
are fully committed to achieving the goals set
0
%
Talk With Us About Designing Leadership Development for Your Organization
Our experts are here to help. Designing leadership development that achieves sustainable impact starts with a thorough discovery process and a partner committed to your success. Contact us today and let’s talk to determine the best approach for your organization.
Designing Leadership Development: Research & Resources
People analytics are an incredible organizational tool. HR leaders can use their people data to help prioritize and target their investments in human capital and leadership development to maximize impact and ROI.
Why should HR leaders plan to protect their leadership development budgets? How do they plan for investing in development during downturns or in times of economic uncertainty? Read our research to find out.
Our research explored how much organizations invest in leadership development. Learn 5 factors HR executives say are part of a successful and effective leadership development strategy.
Why invest in leadership development? Because your organization can reap benefits including more profitability, engaged and loyal employees, a clearer strategy, and the ability to be agile in the face of challenges.
Leadership development research shows that effective development makes a lasting impact on organizations’ biggest challenges. Learn what works best — and what doesn’t.
Related to Designing Leadership Development & Our Discovery Process
Get Our Latest Updates
Subscribe to our email newsletters that highlight our latest research-based articles, products, programs, and more to help you strengthen your leadership skills.





