Making Sense of Leadership Exploring the Five Key Roles Used by Effective Leaders

Author: Esther Cameron; Mike Green
Publisher: Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749450397
Published In: September 2008
Format: Paperback , 224 pages
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Making Sense of Leadership is a practical, accessible and solution-focused book that helps entrepreneurs, managers and leaders develop their change management and leadership roles and skills.

Making Sense of Leadership identifies the five key roles used by effective leaders. A practical, accessible and solution-focused book, it helps entrepreneurs, managers and leaders develop their leadership skills. The authors examine successful leaders to determine the type of leadership roles which succeed. This allows them to present five distinct roles of leadership, which are used to promote positive change and innovation. The authors encourage the reader to play with these, recognizing and taking on those elements which most appropriately suit their situation.

Discovering these roles offers an important guide to the new leader, in order for them to shape their own leadership approach. It also provides interesting challenges to the existing leader who wants to refresh their stance in order to tackle a new situation. The book is supported by exercises for both individuals and groups, so that the text can also be used as a learning and development resource and for team facilitation and one-to-one coaching.

Esther Cameron

Esther Cameron is an experienced change consultant who has been collecting and experimenting with approaches to change across different levels of organisational systems for 20 years. She writes books and articles on change and leadership, and practices as a change consultant and leadership coach. Esther has an eclectic and very human style of working, tuning into individual and systems needs; she is also skilled at working with emergence and structure simultaneously in response to the client context.

Esther is Director of innovative change consultancy Integral Change Consulting Ltd. Integral Change brings together over 28 years of organisational change consultancy experience, skill and knowledge by joining the established change consulting practices of Esther Cameron and Nick Mayhew. It provides a new, high value form of integrated, 'minimal intervention' consultancy , a response to the heightened pressure throughout most organisations to change rapidly what isn't working, and to achieve much more with less.

Mike Green

Mike Green has been helping individuals, teams and organisations manage change for over twenty years. He is the author of Change Management Masterclass, and co-author of the top-selling book Making Sense of Change Management and making Sense of Leadership (all published by Kogan Page). Underpinned by extensive research and based on practical organisational experience they are all guides to the models, tools and techniques of individual, team and organisational change. He has also written practitioner guides for middle managers (Emerging Leadership) and top teams (Inside Top Teams). Mike is an accredited Executive Coach, and also tutors on one of the world's prestigious MBAs at Henley Business School. As Visiting Executive Fellow he tutors in Leadership and Change, People and Performance and Personal Development.