Leadership Training Activity Book



AMACOM books | ISBN-13: 0-8144-7262-1 | English | PDF | 1.92 MB | 337 Pages

Preface
As you pick up this book for the ?rst time, I’m sure you’re wondering how this book can help those who grapple with perhaps the most elu-sive type of training—leadership training?Lois Hart founded the Women’s Leadership Institute nearly six years ago. She began working regularly with Charlotte Waisman, a long-time friend and professional colleague, and soon came to appreciate Char- lotte’s talents as a coach, trainer, and mentor. Lois suggested that they write this book together because she believed that our collaborative ef-forts and diverse professional experiences will help other trainers. We ?rst needed to decide what leadership topics we would include. Long before the book you are now reading was ever in our consciousness, we as professionals were constantly searching for the best thinking on leadership theory. We continuously review what researchers and authors describe about leader competencies, skills, and attitudes; we read the ma-jor leadership books and theorists, and we discuss the goods and bads of each approach. As you will see in this book, we fully agree on one common approach. We believe that Leadership itself is a critical competency, and we believe it can be taught. We suggest that leadership is a huge subject encompassing discrete actions and activities that can themselves be identi?ed as competencies. It is hard to imagine a successful leader not having a very demonstrable capability and capacity for risk and risk-taking. So, Risk became one of the 50 topics! After countless hours of study and discussion, we concluded that Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have done the best research on leadership, which they describe in their book, The Leadership Challenge. Their original research for the Leadership Practices Inventory was with 120 MBA students (average age 29; 60% male). The current version of the book was based on surveys of 1,567 U.S. executives participating in public and private sector management-development seminars (12% of the participants were fe-male). A separate survey collected
information from managers in Australia, England, Germany, and the Netherlands.Kouzes and Posner compared responses from 73 senior human resource management professionals (49 men and 24 women) attending the same conference. The women did not differ measurably in their responses from the men, with one exception: their self-reports on “Encouraging the Heart” showed higher ratings.The researchers found no signi?cant differences between a group of 137 federal government executives and a group of 197 private-sector executives; no signi?cant differences between a group of 95 Australian managers and a group of 70 American midlevel managers; and no signi?cant differences between a group of 170 European managers (English, German, and Dutch) and a group of 270 American managers. Kouzes and Posner are continuing to systematically research the subject, conducting personal interviews and case studies with over 1,000 managers, as well as empirical investigations involving more than 45,000 participants. For more detailed
information on their research, you can access their psychometric report and summaries of 150 doctoral dissertations on their Web site at The Leadership Challenge :: Leadership Challenge.

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