Using Leadership Development To Boost Return-on-Investment.

The article focuses on using leadership development for increasing return-on-investment. As stated, several retiring leaders and budget uncertainties have made it difficult to find new federal leaders. It states that six veterans' hospitals in the U.S. developed an internal leadership program, and found that for every 1 dollar spent, 2.20 dollars was returned. It states that however, ongoing proposals from the U.S. Congress to downsize the federal workforce may affect agencies 'ability to hire new leaders from the outside. It also reports that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has had excellent internal leadership development, from entry level upward.