Publisher's Synopsis
Backed by over 20 years of research with data from over 1 million leaders, The Leadership Challenge Ò Workshop is an intense and unique discovery process created by bestselling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. The Workshop demystifies leadership development and approaches it as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors, establishing a unique underlying philosophy— leadership is everyone’s business .
This comprehensive Facilitator’s Guide includes everything needed to create a powerful two– or three–day designed learning program that is grounded in The Five Practices of Exemplary LeadershipÔ: Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart. The Leadership Challenge Ò Workshop participants will encounter an experiential learning process that involves four stages: Experience : Gather date or knowledge through direct experience; Identify: Relate feelings, reactions, and observations to the experience and identify common patterns or themes; Generalize: Draw conclusions or generalizations based on the patterns; Apply : Apply the generalized learnings to current real situations.
The Leadership Challenge â Workshop real has everything you need to help your learners become effective and high–performing leaders and master the skills to
- Identify their own leadership strengths and areas to improve.
- Communicate their fundamental values and beliefs.
- Focus people’s efforts on key values through their own actions.
- Express their image of the future.
- Inspire others to share a common vision.
- Search for opportunities to take the risks needed for growth.
- Build collaboration, teamwork, and trust.
- Strengthen the ability of others to excel.
- Recognize the accomplishments of others.
- Apply The Five PracticesÔ to a current business challenge.
- Have fun while working hard.
This Facilitator’s Guide package includes a detailed instructions for delivering a Workshop as well as sample Participant’s Workbooks, pre–work forms and checklists, follow–up materials, presentations slides, and audio and video aides.
Anyone can learn to be an effective leader if they are given the right tools! Help others discover their leadership potential with The Leadership Challengeâ Workshop .
