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Leadership Skills
This text offers insights on: recognising and developing leadership qualities; acquiring personal authority to give postive direction and the flexibility to embrace change; acting on the key interacting needs to achieve a task, build a team and develop its members; and transforming core leadership functions like planning, communicating and motivating into skills that can be learned.
LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT: Achieving Breakthroughts
The contributions to this book examine these importnat questions and fall into concerns conceptions of leadership. How has leadership been defined?What are the social and psychological processes that constitute leadership? Again it includes contributions dealing with factors that influence the effectiveness of leadership. Some conditions make leadership relatively unimportant, whereas others make good leadership essential. Some modes of relating to other people enhance the effectiveness of leaders, whereas others reduce the influence of leaders.It also examines a less popular but essentially topic in leadership scholarship, namely the effects of being in a position of leadership on the leader himself for herself.
Transformational Leadership
With the publication of They Love You They Hate You: Discovering Leadership in 2007, a new comprehensive review of basic leadership behaviors were presented to global corporations and frontline leaders that provided a guide to talent retention, empowerment, engagement, and commitment building. Now Dr. Shelton introduces "First They Came," a popular poem attributed to Martin Niemöller describing how Hitler, during his rise to power, purged group after group without much opposition. This is a continuance on the principles of courage, trust, and serving others around you in a transformational way. Transformational leadership is a philosophy and a way of life; it cannot be gained in a leadershi...
Distributed Leadership
James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions. He examines the distribution of leadership among administrators, specialists, and teachers in the school, and explains the ways in which leadership practice is stretched over leaders, followers, and aspects of the situation, including routines and tools of various sorts in the organization such as memos, scheduling procedures, and evaluation protocols. This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education—a series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools.
The Leadership Book ePub
THE BOOK YOU CAN RELY ON WHENEVER YOU FACE A LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE The demands of a leader can be many, varied and difficult. The Leadership Book picks out the 10 top challenges that leaders face on a daily basis and shows how to maximise the performance of leaders and their teams in each of these situations. Each of the 10 sections pins down: · exactly what the issue is · the challenges it can throw up · key leadership actions for to take · the measures of success · the pitfalls to watch out for · a leadership summary to give a quick overview of the highlights of each issue · cross-references to related issues A lifelong companion suitable for any leader, you can dip into sections as and when you need to deal with a particular issue, making for a must-have guide for you to refer back to again and again.
A Handbook of Leadership Styles
This book serves to provide a detailed exploration of the various leadership styles exhibited today. In order to better comprehend the organic link between styles of leadership, this book deals with almost all models of leadership and demonstrates how dynamic these forms of leadership actually are. It is an essential and extensive reference point for both academics and practitioners.
Develop Your Leadership Skills
Develop your Leadership Skills is John Adair's most accessible title on leadership. Full of exercises and checklists, it can help to boost confidence levels and guide and inspire anyone on their journey to becoming a leader of excellence.Acknowledged as a world expert, John Adair offers stimulating insights into recognizing and developing individual leadership qualities, aquiring personal authority, and most importantly, mastering core leadership functions such as planning, communicating and motivating.Suitable for anyone who wishes to improve or develop their leadership skills, this guide distils the essence of John Adair's teaching and provides a framework for becoming an effective leader.
The Reconstruction of Leadership
The study of leadership has faltered partly because the wrong phenomenon has been studied. Whereas the usual definition considers leadership either as a personal property or as a property of position, this paper argues that it is a transient phenomenon residing neither in the person nor the situation and one that can be practiced equally well by different social players. Four attempts to redefine leadership, by Selznick, Burns, Tucker, and Bennis, do come closer to developing a hermaneutic view; however, all imply that leadership is an intrinsic property possessed by certain individuals. But in fact, leadership resides in actions, not in persons. Leadership acts are a communal, democratic ef...
Leadership Qualities for Effective Leaders
Content Leadership Models of Leadership Leadership Developments Qualities of Good Leadership Characterstics of Leadership Rise and Fall of Leadership Strategic Leadership
Leadership Psychology
A better understanding of the psychological relationships at play within current working environments will enable leaders to achieve greater success for themselves and their organizations. Leadership Psychology outlines how inspirational leaders across a range of award-winning companies of all sizes understand their employees' psychological needs and use that knowledge to affect behaviour and enhance performance. The book showcases examples of leadership best practice in businesses featured in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for Survey. Exclusive information gained through interviews with the most highly regarded leaders of a special selection of these winning companies is analyz...
