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The Trainer's Handbook of Leadership Development: Tools, Techniques, and Activities

The Trainer's Handbook of Leadership Development Tools, Techniques, and Activities

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  • Publisher: Pfeiffer
  • ISBN: 9780470886038
  • Published In: August 2011
  • Format: Paperback , 280 pages
  • Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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    The Trainer's Handbook of Leadership Development offers facilitators, human resource professionals, and consultants a wide-variety of tools and techniques for developing leadership competencies and characteristics. Drawing on research from such giants in the leadership field as Warren Bennis, Ken Blanchard, James Kouzes, and Barry Posner, the book's thought-provoking activities are designed to create real and lasting behavior change.

    "The Trainer's Handbook of Leadership Development features the proven activities and tools that will involve and inspire participants to develop the skills and characteristics that will equip them to lead us into the future. Karen has brought together a powerful collection of tools, competency models, exercises, and training necessary for developing leaders in today's workplace. I recommend this book for anyone who is implementing a leadership development program within their organization. It could easily be used to build the entire program from scratch."—Louis Carter, CEO, Best Practice Institute

    "What a gem of a book Karen Lawson has written! Drawing on research by leadership gurus, Karen presents 45 competencies and characteristics critical to leadership excellence. She mines each of these facets for a solid definition and the significance of each. Although many authors shy away from discussing leadership qualities such as authenticity and empathy, Karen deals with them directly. She presents activities that future leaders can use to explore personal leadership qualities. This book is 24kt gold. If you are a leadership development professional, this book is sure to become your gold standard when searching for creative yet practical ways to help develop others into outstanding leaders of the future."—Elaine Biech, editor, The ASTD Leadership Handbook and author, The Business of Consulting

    "Developing the complex skills of leadership is critical for personal and organizational success. If you are responsible for helping others build these skills, this book deserves a spot on your bookshelf—or maybe your desk—because you will use it often!"—Kevin Eikenberry, author, Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time

  • About the Author ix

    1 introduction 1

    2 leadership competencies and characteristics 5

    3 designing a leadership development program 23

    Chapter Three Activities A Checklist for Effective Leadership 31

    Nature or Nurture? 33

    Traits of Effective Leaders 34

    Words to Lead By 36

    4 increasing awareness—self and others 37

    Chapter Four Activities Being Real 38

    Developing Courage 40

    Developing Cultural Intelligence 43

    Doing It Differently 47

    Do the Right Thing 49

    Fired Up! 53

    Heroes and Heroines 56

    Living Your Values 59

    Mirror, Mirror 64

    Modeling the Way 68

    Permission or Forgiveness? 71

    Risk Attitudes Inventory 73

    The Balancing Act 79

    Values Collage 84

    What Is It Like? 86

    Who Am I? 91

    5 communicating and influencing 97

    Chapter Five Activities Active Listening Responses 98

    Active Observation 101

    Common Ground 103

    Confl icting Agendas 109

    Giving Feedback 114

    Listening Self-Awareness Assessment 118

    Mixed Messages 124

    Picture This 130

    The Art of Asking Questions 132

    The Art of Infl uencing 135

    What Do You Mean? 137

    6 motivating and engaging 141

    Chapter Six Activities Embracing Change 142

    Empowering Others 144

    Fair or Equal? 148

    How to Present Change to Employees 150

    Leading Change 155

    Make Them Laugh 158

    Showing Appreciation 162

    Tell Me a Story 164

    What Do Your Employees Value? 167

    7 developing and managing 171

    Chapter Seven Activities Applying Your Coaching Skills 172

    Creating a Team Identity 175

    Delegation Case Study 177

    Delegating Effectively Self-Assessment 181

    Delegation Process 185

    Describing Behavior 192

    Performance Management Skills Checklist 194

    Stopping the Blame Game 198

    Team Models 201

    The Magic of Mentoring 205

    What Do You Expect? 207

    What Mentors Do 212

    8 increasing leadership effectiveness 217

    Chapter Eight Activities Bouncing Back 218

    Distinguishing Behaviors 220

    Employee Development Decisions 223

    Figure It Out 227

    Innovation or Creativity? 230

    Into the Future 232

    Making the Right Call 235

    Networking Checklist 239

    On Target 242

    Setting Priorities 247

    Things We Have in Common 250

    Trust Me 252

    References 255

    Index 257

  • Karen Lawson is a consultant, speaker, author, and founder and president of Lawson Consulting Group, Inc., specializing in organization and management development as well as executive coaching. She is a professor at Arcadia University in the International MBA program. She regularly presents at professional conferences in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

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