A field manual for the gold standard in leadership development books The world’s best leaders consciously reflect on their own behaviors and choices in an effort to continuously better themselves. In the thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition of The Leadership Challenge Workbook, renowned leadership educators James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner deliver their latest update to one of the world’s bestselling works on leading others in organizational settings. You’ll find practical guidance on how to apply the insights from The Leadership Challenge to your daily life, as well as hands-on tips for communicating your vision, strengthening workplace commitment, building employee trust, and maintaining worker satisfaction. Based on the insights of the Seventh Edition of James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, the hands-on experience of the Workbook engages you to examine and improve your ability to put into action The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®. The revised Fourth Edition of The Leadership Challenge Workbook will help leaders in every organization to make extraordinary things happen.

The most trusted source of leadership wisdom, updated to address today's realities The Leadership Challenge is the gold-standard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field. With deep insight into the complex interpersonal dynamics of the workplace, this book positions leadership both as a skill to be learned, and as a relationship that must be nurtured to reach its full potential. This new sixth edition has been revised to address current challenges, and includes more international examples and a laser focus on business issues; you'll learn how extraordinary leaders accomplish extraordinary things, and how to develop your leadership skills and style to deliver quality results every time. Engaging stories delve into the fundamental roles that great leaders fulfill, and simple frameworks provide a primer for those who seek continuous improvement; by internalizing key insights and putting concepts into action, you'll become a more effective, more impactful leader. A good leader gets things done; a great leader aspires, inspires, and achieves more. This book highlights the differences between good and great, and shows you how to bridge the chasm between getting things done and making things happen. * Gain deep insight into leadership's critical role in organizational health * Navigate the shift toward team-oriented work relationships * Motivate and inspire to break through the pervasive new cynicism * Leverage the electronic global village to deliver better results Business is evolving at an increasingly rapid rate, and leaders must keep pace with the changes or risk stagnation. People work differently, are motivated differently, and have different expectations today business as usual is quickly losing its effectiveness. The Leadership Challenge helps you stay current, relevant, and effective in the modern workplace.

How can you inspire your employees to the high levels of engagement that drive strong results across the board? Drawing on over 30 years of research and data from more than two million constituents around the world, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge, expand on their work with The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to create a new metric Positive Workplace Attitudes addressing how leaders affect employee engagement. Their research shows how positive feelings about being part of the workplace strongly influence people's willingness to apply discretionary effort to their work. People put forth much more effort for their best leaders and very little for their worst leaders. Leaders who more frequently exhibit exemplary practices foster engagement and inspire people to go from acceptable to good and even to great. Filled with new findings from Kouzes and Posner's original research, Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces expands the reach of The Leadership Challenge to address pressing, critical issues around employee engagement, and how leaders can improve it to outperform the competition.

How any manager can turn a struggling team into business champs

In today's uncertain economic environment, teams are asked to do more with less. With resources stretched thin, turning around a struggling team has never been harder, and managers must work to identify and maximize whatever potential strengths a team already has. As sports fans already know, behind every great underdog story is a leader who roots out the competitive advantage that will propel the team to victory. In "Team Turnarounds," Joe Frontiera and Dan Leidl share how this fine art of the turnaround really works, from how to inspire the team to the actual tools for change.

Through interviews with team managers and turnaround masters in the NFL, MLB, and the NCAA, as well as managers at top global firms who have successfully reversed their fortunes, they show the six steps every team takes to make a 180 in their performance.

- Presents a six-step model for turnarounds in any organization, based on the authors' extensive research with owners and general managers of sport franchises in the MLB, NFL, and NBA- Features first-hand accounts of sport turnarounds, from the legendary worst-to-first story of Bill Polian and the Indianapolis Colts to Jeffrey Lurie's efforts to transform the Philadelphia Eagles

- Offers behind-the-scenes accounts of effective turnarounds at major organizations like Dominos Pizza, Juniper Networks, iContact, and the Broadway play, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"

No matter how bad the circumstances, how awful the performance, or how far shares have plummeted, "Team Turnarounds" shows how any organization can make the climb back up to the top.

Leaders are no strangers to challenges; in recent years, businesses have experienced unprecedented layoffs, dismal sales, dwindling retirement accounts, and the bankruptcy of once-heralded institutions. While these uncertain times are difficult, they also provide the opportunity for great leadership. Over three decades of research, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge, have asked thousands of leaders to describe their personal leadership best. Across the board, people say their greatest moments arise out of the most difficult periods of their careers. Turning Adversity Into Opportunity reveals how leaders at any level can transform difficult circumstances into opportunities for growth and success. Kouzes and Posner offer a clear set of six actionable strategies, showing how extraordinary leaders navigate through uncertainty, hardship, disruption, transformation, transition, recovery, new beginnings, and other significant challenges. Exemplary leadership disrupts the status quo, and Kouzes and Posner show how to awaken and pursue new possibilities and opportunities, no matter what the circumstances. Wherever you find yourself in your organization or community, Turning Adversity Into Opportunity will help you embrace the chance within any challenge to make a real difference.

Brindar aliento constituye un novedoso enfoque de la funcion del lider, orientado a resaltar la importancia que tienen en el desempeno del personal el respeto y el reconocimiento de sus logros. Mediante una extensa coleccion de principios, practicas y ejemplos, los autores muestran como se puede transmitir energia a los colaboradores de todos los niveles, de modo de estimularlos a proponerse y alcanzar objetivos cada vez mas ambiciosos, para si mismos y para la organizacion en la que trabajan. "Con sus relatos y ejemplos, Brindar aliento es una herramienta maravillosa para crear un grupo de trabajadores interesados en lo que hacen. En la economia actual, donde la gente cambia de empleos y de lealtades con gran facilidad, no existe nada mas valioso."

A brightly colored, vivid 17" x 22" poster for classroom or training room display that outlines and helps remind leaders of The Five Practices and Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership: Model the Way Clarify values by finding your voice and affirming shared values Set the example by aligning actions with shared values Inspire a Shared Vision Envision the future by imagining exciting and ennobling possibilities Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations Challenge the Process Search for opportunities by seizing the initiative and looking outward for innovative ways to improve Experiment and take risks by constantly generating small wins and learning from experience Enable Others to Act Foster Collaboration by building trust and facilitating relationships Strengthen others by increasing self determination and developing competence Encourage the Heart Recognize contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence Celebrate the values and victories by creating a spirit of community

"A lideranCa nao e um privilegio limitado a uns poucos sortudos. e um conjunto observavel e assimilavel de habilidades e compet?ncias que sao aplicaveis em todos os nIveis." -- Jim Kouzes e Barry Posner O Inventario das Praticas de LideranCa (LPI) e a ferramenta de lideranCa mais confiavel e mais vendida de sua geraCao. Desenvolvida por Jim Kouzes e Barry Posner, a terceira ediCao deste renomado pacote de instrumentos aborda a lideranCa como um conjunto de comportamentos mensuravel, assimilavel e que pode ser ensinado. Essa ferramenta de 360? para avaliaCao da lideranCa ajuda indivIduos e organizaC?es a medir suas compet?ncias em lideranCa, ao mesmo tempo que os orienta atraves do processo de aplicaCao do aclamado Modelo das Cinco Praticas de LideranCa Exemplar de Kouzes e Posner aos desafios organizacionais de sua vida diaria. Revisto recentemente, o LPI oferece resultados profundos e precisos para ajudar voc? a se tornar um lIder capaz de: TraCar o Caminho Inspirar uma Visao Compartilhada Desafiar o Processo Capacitar os Outros a Agir Encorajar o CoraCao O Planejador do Desenvolvimento da LideranCa continua a partir do ponto final do Livro de Trabalho do Participante do LPI e ajuda a levar voc? ao nIvel seguinte no desenvolvimento de suas habilidades de lideranCa. O Planejador rev? as Cinco Praticas de LideranCa Exemplar(R), descreve as melhores praticas para aprender a liderar e contem mais de uma centena de atividades de desenvolvimento a seguir para se tornar um lIder melhor. O Planejador pode ser adaptado a sua situaCao especIfica e ajudara voc? a: Entender como as pessoas aprendem a liderar Integrar as melhores praticas de aprendizado de lideranCa em sua propria rotina Examinar conscientemente seu progresso para se tornar um lIder melhor Selecionar as atividades de desenvolvimento que melhor atendem as suas necessidades Criar um plano para as proximas etapas do desenvolvimento de sua lideranCa Aplicar um processo reproduzIvel de facil utilizaCao O Planejador e o seu recurso essencial de LPI para determinar as opC?es mais apropriadas ao prosseguimento da sua jornada de desenvolvimento da lideranCa. e o seu guia na personalizaCao dos seus planos para se tornar o melhor lIder possIvel.

The most trusted resource on becoming a leader is now updated and revised for a new generation.

This leadership classic continues to be a bestseller after three editions and twenty years in print. It is the gold standard for research-based leadership, and the premier resource on becoming a leader. This new edition, with streamlined text, more international and business examples, and a graphic redesign, is more readable and accessible than ever before.
"The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition," has been extensively updated with the latest research and case studies, and offers inspiring new stories of real people achieving extraordinary results. The authors' central theme remains the same and is more relevant today than ever: "Leadership is Everyone's Business." Their "five practices" and "ten commitments" have been proven by hundreds of thousands of dedicated, successful leaders. This edition, with almost one-third new material, emphasizes the global community and refocuses on business leaders.

Note from the publisher: This edition includes an access code so students can take the Student Leadership Practices Inventory Self Online, a brief, 30-question assessment to help them explore their own leadership behaviors and skills and determine the steps they can take to liberate the leader within and become their best selves. If you rent or purchase a used book, the access code may have been redeemed previously and will no longer work. In this updated and expanded second edition of The Student Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner apply their extensive research and expertise to demonstrate that anyone can be a leader, regardless of age or experience. They challenge high school and undergraduate college students to examine their leadership actions and aspirations. Your students will learn from first-hand leadership stories from young leaders like themselves around the world, helping them to deeply understand and explore The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership: Model the Way Inspire a Shared Vision Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act Encourage the Heart The book guides students through the concrete actions they can take to become exemplary leaders, from finding their voice and clarifying their values, to recognizing others' contributions and celebrating others' victories. The authors ask readers to reflect at the end of each chapter on their own leadership experiences and abilities now and for the future.