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This collection of [Centre for Excellence in Leadership] CEL research reports examines the development of middle leaders. The focus on developing the skills and abilities of middle leaders and facilitating their succession into senior leadership positions raises key challenges for both the [learning and skills] sector and for CEL. This edited collection presents four research reports that examine the impact of leadership development initiatives within the sector. In particular, the following reports examine the conditions, processes and consequences of solutions focussed coaching, emotional intelligence training, competence based standards to support performance and succession planning. These research findings highlight a number of important policy implications for CEL as well as for leadership development both in theory and practice. They disclose some of the strengths and also some of the pitfalls of contemporary development and succession programmes. The research reports are: The impact of ‘solutions focussed’ coaching on a college’s leadership culture / Ed Sallis and Peter Hubert; Smart leadership: a partner approach to growing your own leaders / Harriet Marland and Julia Pollock; Managing managers’ competence and developing leaders / Philip Barker with Janet Brewer; Succession planning for colleges: the transition into leadership positions in further education colleges in England / John Evans.