Develop Your Leadership Skills (Creating Success series, 37) - Softcover

Adair, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749449195 ISBN 13: 9780749449193

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2007

Synopsis

<p><i><b>Develop your Leadership Skills</b></i> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>

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About the Author

<p><b>John Adair</b> is acknowledged internationally as an authority on leadership. The world's first Professor of Leadership Studies, he advises many organisations in business, government, education, health and the voluntary sector. An effective speaker with a valuable message, he is one of the very few figures in recent years to have transformed the debate as to what effective leadership is all about.</p><p><b>John Adair</b> has recently been made United Nations Chair of Strategic Leadership. Based in Turin, he has launched a strategic leadership programme in association with the UN. He has also received the Lifetime Achievement in Leadership Award and China has made him its first Honorary Professor of Leadership. The author of over 50 books, now in 25 languages, on leadership and management development, he continues to write and teach throughout the world, inspiring new audiences with his timeless and timely vision of leadership.</p>

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<p>Introduction</p><p> <b>1. What you have to be</b></p><p> Some essential qualities; Generic leadership traits</p><p> <b>2. What you have to know</b></p><p> <b>3. What you need to do</b></p><p> Task need; Team maintenance need; Individual needs; The three circles interact; Towards the functional approach to leadership; Your role as leader; Leadership: personal reminder</p><p> <b>4. How to turn the core leadership functions into skills</b></p><p> Defining the task; Planning; Briefing; Controlling; Evaluating; Motivating; Organising; Providing an example</p><p> <b>5. How to develop yourself as a leader</b></p><p> Be prepared; Be proactive; Be reflective</p><p> <b>6. How to lead at the strategic level</b></p><p> The functions of a strategic leader; The importance of practical wisdom; Leadership for desirable change</p><p> <b>7. How to grow leaders in your organisation</b></p><p> Principle one: develop a strategy for leadership development; Principle two: selection; Principle three: training for leadership; Principle four: career development; Principle five: line managers as leadership developers; Principle six: culture; Principle seven: the chief executive; Finding greatness in people</p>

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749449195
• ISBN 13: 9780749449193
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144