Let the Center for Creative Leadership show you how you can dramatically improve your leadership abilities in today's business environment. Based on years of specialized research, The Leader's Edge outlines six distinct creative leadership skills that, while not traditionally associated with management development, have, nevertheless, proven to be essential to modern business leadership. Here, the book's authors deliver compelling lessons in paying attention, personalizing, imaging, serious play, collaborative inquiry, and crafting -- all competencies that modern leaders should master....
Let the Center for Creative Leadership show you how you can dramatically improve your leadership abilities in today's business environment. Based on y...
Thoroughly researched and clearly written, Standing at the Crossroads speaks to the whole professional woman and her organization, providing a framework for guiding a woman's growth and development as a high- achieving leader. The authors debunk the common myth that women must give up life's other roles to be successful professionally, and offer research conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership in conjunction with participants in The Women's Leadership Program to show that multiple roles in fact benefit and enhance women's managerial performance. The book provides individuals and their...
Thoroughly researched and clearly written, Standing at the Crossroads speaks to the whole professional woman and her organization, providing a framewo...
Building Character is written for leaders who understand their responsibility to develop authentic leaders within their organizations. Without presenting an overarching moral code or a prescriptive code of behavior, this book offers leaders and managers a practical model complete with the tools, information, and processes to develop character in leaders at all levels. The author explains the role character plays in leadership success and effectiveness and outlines how character can be developed through the Five E's--Example, Education, Experience, Evaluation, and Environment.
Building Character is written for leaders who understand their responsibility to develop authentic leaders within their organizations. Without ...
With the increase in the number of organizational leadership development programs, there is a pressing need for evaluation to answer important questions, improve practice, and inform decisions. The Handbook is a comprehensive resource filled with examples, tools, and the most innovative models and approaches designed to evaluate leadership development in a variety of settings. It will help you answer the most common questions about leadership development efforts, including:
What difference does leadership development make?
What development and support strategies work...
With the increase in the number of organizational leadership development programs, there is a pressing need for evaluation to answer important questio...
Understanding how to cool down, slow down, and engage the naturally occurring conflicts among team members is critical to the ultimate success of a team. With this book, your team and its members will gain a deeper understanding of how conflict emerges and how to respond in ways that will leverage conflicts to their advantage. Team members will learn the importance of establishing a safe team climate, agreeing on processes to guide interactions, and use of constructive communication skills in order to develop a conflict competent team.
As the authors say, conflict is not to be avoided, but...
Understanding how to cool down, slow down, and engage the naturally occurring conflicts among team members is critical to the ultimate success of a te...
"When you want to sell an idea to your organization, there are two important things to consider: an environmental scan and a collection of tactics. This guidebook explains how to assess your environment, point by point. It also provides a collection of tactics you can use to sell your idea. Assessing your environment and considering tactics you can use will prepare you for a successful campaign, and you will be more likely to accomplish your objective--solving a problem and making an improvement for the benefit of individuals, groups, and the organization as a whole."--P. [6].
"When you want to sell an idea to your organization, there are two important things to consider: an environmental scan and a collection of tactics. Th...
Everyone experiences stress, and leaders face the additional stress brought about by the unique demands of leadership: having to make decisions with limited information, to manage conflict, to do more with less . . . and faster The consequences of stress can include health problems and deteriorating relationships. Knowing what signs of stress to look for and having a strategy for increasing your resources will help you manage leadership stress and be more effective over a long career.
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Everyone experiences stress, and leaders face the additional stress brought about by the unique demands of leadership: having to make decisions with l...
