Leadership Development Canvas

Leadership Development Canvas

The Leadership Development Canvas brings together all relevant areas of leadership development challenge, it’s a great tool to collaborate around as a team, and it offers a reiterative and continuous way of working

According to Center for Creative Leadership, they have created a kit with question cards, models and tools to populate each of the canvas areas.

There is no mandatory flow to navigate between the components of the leadership development canvas, but a recommended flow is:

1. Organizational Forces: start with the business context, business strategy, and organizational challenges
2. Expertise Forces: discuss the research and best practices related to the challenges
3. Stakeholder Forces: map out the various stakeholders and their needs for this initiative
4. Value: make concrete what the added value is this initiative will bring to individuals and the organization, and how it will be measured
5. Leaders: empathize with the participants of the experience and their current situation
6. Learning: decide on the mindset, toolset, and skillset to equip participating leaders with, and the level of mastery for each
7. Engagement: formulate why leaders should be engaged for this initiative and discuss how to tap into that engagement
8. Logistical forces: list the constraints in terms of time, budget, location, availability of key partners, and resources
9. Investment: discuss the time and budget available and prioritize what to invest in
10. Partners: connect with the various partners that together will deliver the initiative
11. Resources: list all the resources that will be needed to deliver the initiative
12. Strategies: decide on the pedagogical approach(es) for the initiative
13. Experience: finally, map out the developmental journey on a high level

Checkout other business canvases in our Canvas Database