Leadership is Everyone's Business

Backed by over 20 years of original research, The Leadership Challenge Workshop is a unique and intense discovery process created by best-selling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. The Workshop demystifies the concept of leadership and approaches it as a learnable set of behaviors. In other words, forget about job titles, forget about position or rank or work experience.  Leadership is about what you do. In this non-manager version of the Participant Workbook, Kouzes and Posner introduce individual contributors to The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The one-day program is about how the "leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others." The authors' goal is to "liberate the leader in everyone" with this inspiring, results-oriented Workshop.

Preface v Orienteering 1 Practice 1. Model the Way 23 Practice 2. Inspire a Shared Vision 37 Practice 3. Challenge the Process 51 Practice 4. Enable Others to Act 61 Practice 5. Encourage the Heart 71 Committing 85 Appendix 91 Suggestions for Becoming a Better Leader 92 The Journey Continues: Ten Ways to Keep Your Leadership Development Alive 95 About the Authors 99