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

Ferran Velasco¹, Joan Manuel Batista-Foguet¹, Robert J Emmerling¹

¹People Management and Organisation, ESADE Business School, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain.

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Summary

This study introduces a new scale measuring goal progress in leadership development programs. It helps assess career transition impact earlier than traditional goal attainment measures.

Keywords:

goal setting goal striving goal-directed behaviors leadership development scale development

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Area of Science:

Organizational Psychology
Career Development
Leadership Studies

Background:

Leadership development programs aim to support participants' career transitions.
Participants set diverse goals, including competency improvement, career advancement, and life aspirations.
Assessing long-term goal attainment is challenging due to varied goal nature and timelines.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a measure of goal progress as an indicator of leadership program impact.
To operationalize goal progress through a scale of goal-directed behaviors.
To enable earlier assessment of program effectiveness in career transitions.

Main Methods:

Subject-matter experts validated the content of the new goal progress measure.
Factor analysis was conducted using data from three independent samples.
The analysis identified four key dimensions of goal-directed behaviors.

Main Results:

The study identified four dimensions of goal progress: Sharing Information, Seeking Information, Revising the Plan, and Enacting the Plan.
The developed scale demonstrated content validity and structural integrity through factor analysis.
The measure allows for data collection within months of goal setting.

Conclusions:

A new, validated scale for measuring goal progress in leadership development is now available.
This scale provides an earlier indication of program impact on career transitions.
The findings facilitate timely feedback for practitioners and advance academic research in leadership development and goal attainment.