Design a job shadowing program for future leaders
A structured shadowing program with selection, pairings, activities, reflection, and measures so participants learn how leaders really work.
The prompt
Help me design a leadership shadowing program.
Department or organization: [DETAILS, size]
Who will shadow: [e.g. high-potential individual contributors, new managers]
Who they'll shadow: [leaders' levels and roles]
Goal: [e.g. prepare successors, expose people to decision-making, cross-functional understanding]
Time available: [e.g. 2 days per quarter, half-day weekly for 6 weeks]
Constraints: [confidential meetings, remote or hybrid teams, budget]
Cover:
1. Selection: fair, transparent criteria and an application or nomination process; how to avoid only picking people who already have visibility.
2. Matching: how to pair participants with leaders (development goals, avoiding their own manager, cross-functional exposure).
3. What to shadow: a mix of real activities (decision meetings, 1:1 prep, customer calls, budget reviews, hard conversations) and which to exclude for confidentiality, with a simple confidentiality agreement.
4. Structure: before (goals and briefing), during (observation guide with what to notice), after (debrief questions with the leader, written reflection).
5. Leader guide: how to narrate their thinking, a debrief script, and time commitment.
6. Follow-through: a stretch assignment or project after shadowing so learning is applied.
7. Measurement: participant and leader feedback, behavior change, promotion readiness, retention of participants.
Return a program outline, a participant observation template, a leader debrief question list, and a launch timeline. Remind me to check the selection criteria against our equal-opportunity policies and local employment law before launch.
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- DETAILS, size
- e.g. high-potential individual contributors, new managers
- leaders' levels and roles
- e.g. 2 days per quarter, half-day weekly for 6 weeks
- confidential meetings, remote or hybrid teams, budget
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