The Leadership Manual

The Leadership Manual
Author: Hilarie Owen
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780273675518

The only complete manual providing practical guidance on leadership style AND leadership skills. The essential day-to-day learning reference for anybody who is ready to be a leader and not just a manager.

Mastering Leadership

Mastering Leadership
Author: Robert J. Anderson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2015-11-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119147204

Is your leadership a competitive advantage, or is it costing you? How do you know? Are you developing your leadership effectiveness at the pace of change? For most leaders today, complexity is outpacing their personal and collective development. Most leaders are in over their heads, whether they know it or not. The most successful organizations over time are the best led. While this has always been true, today escalating global complexity puts leadership effectiveness at a premium. Mastering Leadership involves developing the effectiveness of leaders—individually and collectively—and turning that leadership into a competitive advantage. This comprehensive roadmap for optimal leadership features: Breakthrough research that connects increased leadership effectiveness with enhanced business performance The first fully integrated Universal Model of Leadership—one that integrates the best theory and research in the fields of Leadership and Organizational Development over the last half century A free, online self-assessment of your leadership, using the Leadership Circle Profile, visibly outlining how you are currently leading and how to develop even greater effectiveness The five stages in the evolution of leadership—Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive—along with the organizational structures and cultures that develop at each of these stages Six leadership practices for evolving your leadership capability at a faster pace A map of your optimal path to greater leadership effectiveness Case stories that facilitate pragmatic application of this Leadership Development System to your particular situation This timeless, authoritative text provides a systemic approach for developing your senior leaders and the leadership system of your organization. It does not recommend quick fixes, but argues that real development requires a strategic, long-term, and integrated approach in order to forge more effective leaders and enhanced business performance. Mastering Leadership offers a developmental pathway to bring forth the highest and best use of yourself, your life, and your leadership. By more meaningfully deploying all of who you are every day, individually and collectively, you will achieve a leadership legacy consistent with your highest aspirations.

Essential Leadership

Essential Leadership
Author: Esther Cameron
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0749477415

Essential Leadership is a practical, accessible book that tackles theory and practice in an integrated and stimulating way. You are encouraged to engage with a wide range of leadership theories and frameworks as well as rate your own leadership skills and qualities, make realistic self-development plans and start to experiment with new or different approaches. Rather than offering one best way forward or becoming overly theoretical, this book is a pragmatic resource for new and experienced leaders looking to navigate the leadership literature and start to fully realize their own leadership potential. Supported by exercises, practical examples, rigorous self-assessments, advice and suggestions, Essential Leadership offers an important guide for those currently working, or planning to work, in a 21st century business environment with all its complexity and uncertainty. It provides an over-arching framework of five essential leadership qualities that can be refined and combined as leaders grow, allowing them to be particularly responsive to the business context. The book allows readers to discover and develop their own leadership qualities, and master them through understanding, experimentation, feedback and reflection. Cutting-edge research into Millennial Leadership is also included, as are sections on developing your leadership maturity throughout life, and how leadership culture forms and changes. Online supporting resources include lecture slides and an instructor's manual.

Never Too Young to Lead

Never Too Young to Lead
Author: Maureen P. Provencher
Publisher: Saint Mary's Press
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2006
Genre: Christian leadership
ISBN: 0884898733

Never Too Young to Lead offers faith communities resources and strategies to develop leadership qualities and skills in young adolescents. This manual includes six themes on Christian leadership: leadership styles, listening skills, conflict resolution, trust and responsibility, leadership and discipleship, and planning and strategy. The sessions found in Never Too Young to Lead provide a broad overview of leadership with the aid of scriptural images, and include activities for training youth in essential leadership skills and qualities. The manual also offers strategies for using the sessions to create daylong, weekend, or weeklong training programs for young adolescents.

Level Up Leadership

Level Up Leadership
Author: Michael J Provitera
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre:
ISBN:

Leadership Development and Training has been at the forefront of Managerial Practice since the time of George Washington, America's first President, and then formalized in the 19th century with Frederick Winslow Taylor's "One Best Way." These leaders have developed a discipline of leadership coupled with a strong foundation. Henri Fayol, a French scholar and executive, contributed to the drive to make management a profession with his functions of management and it was Peter Drucker that established Management as a Practice. Management historians instilled what we have today in our corporate boardrooms, our college campuses, and in and among political institutions. A practical trainer's manual for implementing leadership development using the Level Up Leadership Book has now established a new frontier. This is the first time in history that a book is a combination of both modalities---Leadership Development and Trainer's Manual. The Level UP Leadership Model offers practical techniques for applying The Six Factors of Exemplary Leadership in real-world business environments. As a companion to The Level UP Leadership Book, also authored by Dr. Michael Provitera, this Trainer's Manual provides essential hands-on guidance for planning, controlling, leading, and organizing a Level UP Leadership training platform. A leadership book that engages leaders for success coupled with this trainer's manual is a must have companion for training and development using the Level Up Leadership Model. The Level UP Leadership Trainer's Manual includes easy-to-use guidelines to simplify planning and assembling a training seminar. By focusing on the notion of executive leadership development as a journey rather than a plateau, this trainer's manual provides critical insight through a proven, systematic process for training executives. Implementing leadership skills requires thoughtful focus on relevance and resilience―and any successful, sustainable change begins with exemplary training and development. This trainer's manual helps trainers map out a plan and put it into action, with techniques that help clarify goals and objectives and translates a training program into an engaging and groundbreaking leadership training strategy. Now, more than ever, leaders need to streamline planning with practical guidelines for an 18-hour training seminar broken into six three-hour modules. Using this model, trainers can assemble a training platform that is both an engaging and an enriching experience for effective implementation. Providing ideas to improve professional communication and authentic leadership, strengthening contractual commitment between participants and trainers, and building a presence and a following as a management consultant. Trainers are encouraged to adopt a systematic approach to leadership training to continue building clientele. The Level UP Leadership executive training program is a proven model backed by decades of research and data from over 1000 executives. The training in Level UP Leadership has been and continues to be a success in engaging leaders. It is practical, it is applied, and it has helped leaders from around the world improve their personal and organizational performance. Today, organizations are facing resilience as its foremost challenge and leaders around the world feel that we need quality leadership development. Real-world application of a proven training platform becomes more critical today. The Level UP Leadership Trainer's Manual gives you the hands-on applications you need to more effectively implement an engaging and rewarding training seminar. In the two books, the Level UP Leadership Book, and this Trainer's Manual, organizations and individuals can establish an entire management-consulting platform. Take the time out to develop your executive leadership training NOW! Dr. Jeff Mello, a scholar of Human Resource Management and exemplary executive, writes the foreword.

The Little Book of Leadership Development

The Little Book of Leadership Development
Author: Scott J. ALLEN
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2011-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 081441754X

Great things come in little packages: 50 commonsense (but rarely common) ideas for building the leadership potential of others.How many managers have time to plow through big books of leadership development? None! And they'll never need to with this slender book of 50 simple yet powerful ideas. The Little Book of Leadership Development goes straight to the heart of great leadership. Free of complicated theories, it focuses on what really works to get people motivated, working effectively, and acting as leaders themselves. The book delivers streamlined instructions on modeling behaviors, sharing information, building accountability, stretching teams, providing feedback, and 45 other practical strategies. Readers will be able to design a system of development tailored to their team and organization. Managers with the ability to self-reflect and a willingness to implement these positive, powerful ideas will see quick improvementsùin communication, efficiency, morale, and every other measure that points to a committed team of emerging leaders.

The Handbook for Student Leadership Development

The Handbook for Student Leadership Development
Author: Susan R. Komives
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118000935

Praise for the Second Edition of The Handbook for Student Leadership Development "This is a must-have book for leadership educators and all student affairs professionals who want to develop impactful leadership programs and the leadership capacity of students. Buy it. Read it. Use it to develop the needed leadership for our collective future." CYNTHIA CHERREY, vice president for campus life, Princeton University, and president, the International Leadership Association "As we continue to encourage leadership behavior in young people, it is very easy to get lost in a forest of new theories, programs, and definitions. This handbook serves as the compass to guide us, and it grounds the field of student leadership development in principles and best practices. Our challenge is to put this work into action." PAUL PYRZ, president, LeaderShape " Comprehensive in design and scope, the second edition of The Handbook is a theory and practice resource manual for every leadership educator inside and outside of the classroom." LAURA OSTEEN, director, the Center for Leadership and Civic Education, Florida State University " Every college administrator responsible for coordinating student leadership programming should have this book. The Handbook for Student Leadership Development takes the guesswork out of leadership program design, content, and delivery." AINSLEY CARRY, vice president for student affairs, Auburn University " I recommend without hesitation the Handbook for Student Leadership Development to student affairs professionals who desire to enhance the leadership experiences for all their students as well as teachers who are seeking ways to bolster their students' classroom experiences." Dr. WILLIAM SMEDICK, director, Leadership Programs and Assessment, Office of the Dean of Student Life, and lecturer, Center for Leadership Education, Johns Hopkins University

Warfighting

Warfighting
Author: Department of the Navy
Publisher: Vigeo Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2018-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781948648394

The manual describes the general strategy for the U.S. Marines but it is beneficial for not only every Marine to read but concepts on leadership can be gathered to lead a business to a family. If you want to see what make Marines so effective this book is a good place to start.

Lab Dynamics

Lab Dynamics
Author: Carl M. Cohen
Publisher: CSHL Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2005
Genre: Comportement organisationnel
ISBN: 0879698160

"Lab Dynamics is a book about the challenges to doing science and dealing with the individuals involved, including oneself. The authors, a scientist and a psychotherapist, draw on principles of group and behavioral psychology but speak to scientists in their own language about their own experiences. They offer in-depth, practical advice, real-life examples, and exercises tailored to scientific and technical workplaces on topics as diverse as conflict resolution, negotiation, dealing with supervision, working with competing peers, and making the transition from academia to industry." "This is a uniquely valuable contribution to the scientific literature, on a subject of direct importance to lab heads, postdocs, and students. It is also required reading for senior staff concerned about improving efficiency and effectiveness in academic and industrial research."--BOOK JACKET