Invitation letter
-- Leadership Development Program-Asia
Leadership Behavioral Laboratory
Dear XXX:
It is our great honor to invite you to participate in the leadership development program conducted by Lessons of Experience-Asia. The program intends to learn the career development of managers on both middle and senior levels and get to know how they improve themselves through these experiences by interviewing them. The program has been widely conducted in North America, Europe, India and Singapore and has already achieved a lot of accomplishments. Now, China is also included into the program in order to do comparative study.
The program is composed of three parts: leadership development, influence sustainability and corporate culture profile assessment.
Using professional models and tools, leadership development aims at exploring effective leadership development strategies and guidelines applicable to the unique environment and specific historical period of China by interviewing senior managers in China.
Influence sustainability uses professional assessment tools to find out the main methods and skills employed by leaders in Chinese enterprises to set up and sustain their power and influence by asking managers on both middle and senior levels and their teams to do questionnaires. The purpose is to provide guidelines to help Chinese managers promote their management skills.
Corporate culture profile assessment uses authoritative assessment tools to find out the type, characteristics, strengths and weaknesses, developing trend and strategies of the corporate culture by conducting a questionnaire survey among employees, which can help Chinese enterprises to plan and develop their corporate cultures.
The program is cooperated by Leadership Behavioral Laboratory (LBL) and Center for Creative Leadership (CCL).
Set up in 1994, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) is the leading China-based international business school. In 2007, the MBA program of CEIBS was ranked 11th by “Financial Times” among all business schools all over the world. The Leadership Behavioral Laboratory, as a representative of leadership assessment and development of CEIBS, aims to explore the unique laws of leadership development in China and provide the most effective advice to promote leadership skills through interview, simulation, behavior observation and questionnaire.
Center for Creative Leadership is set up in 1970. As one of the top leadership research and education organizations, it has already achieved lots of original accomplishments in the field of leadership development. According to the survey conducted by “Financial Times” in 2006, it is among the top five educational institutes for managers globally. The leadership development program of Lessons of Experience-Asia is one of the important global research projects which CCL is currently engaging to.
It is believed that your participation will greatly deepen our understanding concerning the ways of leadership development in China. Interviews are arranged in 2007.
In order to express our sincere gratitude, we will share with you the strategies and practices of leadership development in China through meetings and reports. Also, participating enterprises can also have further cooperation with LBL and CCL to apply the research results to practice in order to improve leadership development in Chinese enterprises.
We will contact in the coming two weeks to discuss other related issues on phone. We sincerely hope that you can participate in the meaningful and pioneering research program.
For further information, you can contact us at:
021-28905633 Professor Jean Lee
021-28905285 PhD Wei Feng
Fax: 021-28905650
E-mail:
Details of the Research Program
The program will be conducted through interviews and questionnaires
Interviews are mainly for leadership development program, questions that will be asked are as follows: “when are the critical turning points of your career path?” “What are the critical events that you think help you grow and improve?”
Questionnaires are mainly for corporate cultural profile assessment and management skill sustainability program, questions are: “employees are very creative”, “employees communicate in a straightforward way” and “I seldom think whether others care me or not” as well as “I like to make decisions myself”.
We only select few enterprises for the program. If any one is interested, it will have to conduct a questionnaire survey in a team with about 100 persons including managers and subordinates.
What you will do:
10 senior managers for interview
50-100 employees for questionnaires on corporate cultural profile assessment as well as power and influence
What you will get:
Our research concerns, in the special Chinese environment, what kind of experiences will help or hamper the improvement of leadership, what kind of working environment will promote or prevent leadership development and what kind of events will help or hinder leadership development as well as the existing types of Chinese corporate cultures, characteristics and strategies suitable for the long-term development of the enterprise.
As to research results, we will share with you through meeting s and reports and we will also share the leadership development experience in Europe and America and other countries in Asia. The participating enterprises will be invited to forums to learn the latest research development in the field of international leadership development. We will also give managers who participate in interview our research results and some management tips.