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All-New Activities Enhance Understanding of the LPI Behaviors Based on the work of internationally acclaimed leadership experts Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI®) Action Cards Facilitator's Guide offers step-by-step instructions on how to conduct nine exercises designed to reinforce the 30 LPI behaviors. Using the guide's innovative and effective activities, trainers, human resource professionals, and consultants can facilitate learning opportunities for executives, managers, and aspiring leaders who are committed to improving their leadership competencies. The Action Cards engage participants in resolving challenges in new and creative ways. Each card features one of the 30 LPI behaviors. For example, in one activity, participants apply the behaviors to a real-life, unresolved business situation. Working in small groups, the participants each present their own challenge and take turns suggesting how the problem can be solved using the different behaviors. Each activity utilizes handouts available on the accompanying website and instructions for adapting the activities to one-on-one coaching situations are also included. Facilitators will need to provide each participant with a deck of the cards. Once facilitated instruction has been completed, the cards are designed to become an ongoing resource for each of the participants as they continue to face different challenges in their day-to-day work. They can use their deck as an application tool on their own or with their team to help resolve business issues. The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI®) Action Cards package was created by Jo Bell and Renee Harness, two Certified Masters of The Leadership Challenge® Workshop. Praise for Leadership Practices Inventory Action Cards "In our ever-increasing, lightening-fast business environment packed with various distractions, LPI cards help me maintain crucial focus toward achieving my own personal leadership improvement goals. They're like a leadership development insurance policy!" —Joseph L. Pray, CLU, senior vice president, The Trustmark Companies; Voluntary Benefit Solutions

A set of five brightly colored, vivid 17" x 22" posters for classroom or training room display that outline and help remind leaders of each of The Five Practices and Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership: Poster 1: Model the Way Clarify values by finding your voice and affirming shared values Set the example by aligning actions with shared values Poster 2: Inspire a Shared Vision Envision the future by imagining exciting and ennobling possibilities Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations Poster 3: Challenge the Process Search for opportunities by seizing the initiative and looking outward for innovative ways to improve Experiment and take risks by constantly generating small wins and learning from experience Poster 4: Enable Others to Act Foster Collaboration by building trust and facilitating relationships Strengthen others by increasing self determination and developing competence Poster 5: Encourage the Heart Recognize contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence Celebrate the values and victories by creating a spirit of community

Based on the internationally acclaimed best-seller The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, The Leadership Challenge Values Cards are an excellent tool for learning and conceptualizing the importance of values clarification, as put forth in Kouzes and Posner's classic book. Activities using these cards are incorporated into The Leadership Challenge Workshop Facilitator’s Guide Set, 4th Edition. In addition, a stand-alone Facilitator’s Guide dedicated to multiple innovative and effective activities is available, allowing trainers, human resource professionals, and consultants to facilitate learning opportunities for executives, managers, and aspiring leaders who want to refine their leadership skills. As Kouzes and Posner explain, the best leaders have a clear understanding of their personal values and ideals. The Leadership Challenge Values Cards can help any leader (or aspiring leader) to clarify the personal values, as well as shared values, that will guide them in all situations. The Values Cards are pre-printed with words such as creativity, loyalty, and teamwork so that participants can identify and record the values that are most meaningful to them. After the workshop or coaching session, the cards become a take-away for the participants--they can use their deck as a tool for reflection and as an aide for helping to clarify the values with their own constituents.

Over the last twenty-five years, The Leadership Challenge established a reputation as a research-driven, evidence-based leadership development model with a simple, yet profound, principle at its core: leadership is a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. For leaders who have completed either The Leadership Challenge® Workshop, The Leadership Is Everyone's Business Workshop, or the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), this new program addresses the important question: "What's Next?" Responding to your toughest leadership development challenges, this innovative and flexible program encourages leaders to remain focused on what they learned during their original exposure to The Five Practices® model, while challenging them to continue implementing their new skills and behaviors over time. The Challenge Continues modules are intended for brief follow-up/refresher sessions that will move leaders beyond their foundational Leadership Challenge knowledge. Participants are asked to share and reflect on the small wins they have experienced since their Leadership Challenge journey began, and then practice specific skills and behaviors that will prepare them for them for the next leg of their journey. They are also shown how to identify opportunities to expand their use of The Practices for team member development and the influencing of broader spheres of their work units or organizations.The Challenge Continues includes five 90-minute modules (one for each of The Five Practices) along with delivery instructions for both the traditional classroom/coaching settings or the virtual classroom. This comprehensive Facilitator's Guide provides everything needed to prepare for and deliver a high-impact leadership development program for leaders at all levels. It includes step-by-step instructions and customizable presentation scripts for conducting the powerful sessions. In addition, this package contains a flash drive with all of the Facilitator Guide content, forms, and presentation slides; sample copies of the five Participant Workbooks are also provided. A bonus section at the end of the Facilitator's Guide explores ways in which facilitators can continue to extend their participant's learning including overviews of other related models (Covey's Seven Habits, emotional intelligence, leadership ethics, servant leadership, leveraging talents and strengths, storytelling) as well as follow-up activities such as leadership book clubs and how to use Web 2.0/social networking technologies. Built upon a time-tested and evidence-based foundation, The Challenge Continues offers a proven method for developing high-performing leaders in any organization.

Based on the internationally acclaimed best-seller The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, The Leadership Challenge Values Cards Facilitator's Guide offers step-by-step instructions on learning and applying one of the enduring truths of leadership—the truth that values drive commitment. Using the guide's innovative and time-tested activities, trainers, human resource professionals, and consultants can facilitate learning opportunities for executives, managers, and aspiring leaders who are committed to improving their leadership competencies. As Kouzes and Posner explain, the best leaders have a clear understanding of their personal values and ideals. The Leadership Challenge Values Cards can help any experienced or aspiring leader to clarify these personal values, as well as to build consensus on shared values that will guide them and their teams in taking decisions and actions in all situations. Each of the Values Cards is pre-printed with key words such as creativity, loyalty, and teamwork so that participants can more easily identify and record the values that are most meaningful to them. The Facilitator's Guide contains 11 dynamic activities: 2 introductory activities, 6 Personal Values Drive Commitment Activities, and 3 Shared Values Make a Difference Activities. Facilitators will need to purchase a deck of the cards for each participant. After the workshop or coaching session, the cards become a take-away for the participants—they can use their deck as a tool for reflection and as an aide for helping to clarify the values with their own constituents. They can also be used at home to engage family members in the all-important conversations about the beliefs they'd like to live by. Praise for The Leadership Challenge Values Cards Facilitator's Guide "When I went to the Workshop, I was at a turning point in my professional and personal lives. After doing the Values Cards activity, I realized that I was not 'living my values' to the fullest extent in either area. After the workshop, I had conversations with folks in my personal and professional lives as to what is important to me and what I stand for. As a result, I was able to make adjustments in both areas of my life." Ken Hurdle, chief ombudsman, CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Over a million professionals have sharpened their leadership skills by reading the works of Kouzes and Posner. Readers of The Leadership Challenge and users of The Leadership Practices Inventory have demanded follow-up materials that will enable them to implement the tenets of the Leadership Challenge model. The Leadership Challenge Planner, which is short, simple, and practical, will fill that need. Each chapter contains easy-to-use worksheets which, upon being completed, will enable users to put together a grand plan as well as weekly plans. This is an extremely effective stand-alone, self-learning tool.

This Facilitator's Guide provides the background information, activity design, and facilitation guidelines to conduct the Encouraging the Heart Workshop. The workshop is a half-day interactive program for leaders to use the information from Kouzes and Posner’s Encouragement Index to understand their ability to Encourage the Heart, implement some key practices in their own roles as leaders, and draft action plans for continuing development of this leadership skill. You will find the following material in this guide: Encouraging the Heart Workshop Overview Suggestions for Successful Results Planning and Preparing for the Workshop During the Session Follow-Up Background on Encouraging the Heart Quick View Agenda: Half-Day Workshop Facilitator Guidelines: Half-Day Workshop Visuals and Training Aids

The LPI: Observer is the 30-item observer assessment associated with the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) 4th Edition product suite. The Leadership Practices Inventory is the best-selling and most trusted leadership tool of its generation. This celebrated instrument packages approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. The 360-degree toll helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner's acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® model to real-life organizational challenges. With The Leadership Challenge, 5th Edition leading the way, it is time to update the Leadership Practices Inventory materials. In this 4th edition, customers will find: * A fresh, modern look to the materials, including the feedback reports * A group comparison report page * A shorter workbook specifically designed for debriefing and understanding the Feedback Report * The latest data on the model * An updated facilitator's guide that focuses on LPI administration, debrief, and how a facilitator can develop one's leaders from there.Anyone can learn to be an effective leader if they are given the right feedback and tools. Help others to discover their leadership potential with the LPI!

The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) is the best-selling and most trusted leadership tool of its generation. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the third edition of this celebrated instrument package approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360° leadership assessment tool helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner's acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Model to real-life organizational challenges. The LPI Observer is a 30-item questionnaire used to rate Leaders on The Five Practices behaviors. The completed forms provide feedback from a variety of people- managers, direct reports, coworkers, and other colleagues who have had the opportunity to view the participant in leadership situations. We recommend that you order 8 LPI Observers for each participant.

The authors of the classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge bring their expertise to higher education, offering five practices that can make any college or university leader into an exemplary leader. Drawing on the same pioneering research that formed the foundation of their classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge (over 2.7 million copies sold), James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a set of leadership skills and practices that will make a significant difference in every area of higher education—faculty, administration, library services, career counseling, auxiliary services, campus safety, and more. It’s about the behaviors that leaders, regardless of their position, use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, segments into solidarity, and risks into rewards. Kouzes and Posner tell the leadership story from the inside and move outward, describing it first as a personal journey and then as mobilizing others to want to do things they have never done before. The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership is the operating system for this adventure. Leadership in Higher Education explains the fundamental principles that support these practices and provides case examples of people in higher education who demonstrate each one. A core theme that weaves its way through all the chapters is that, whether it’s one to one or one to many, leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. We need leaders who can unite us and ignite us. This book lights the way.

The LPI: Leadership Practices Inventory Poster is handy reminder of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership and the 6 LPI behaviors associated with each practice. The Leadership Practices Inventory is the best-selling and most trusted leadership tool of its generation. This celebrated instrument packages approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. The 360-degree toll helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner's acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® model to real-life organizational challenges. With The Leadership Challenge, 5th Edition leading the way, it is time to update the Leadership Practices Inventory materials. In this 4th edition, customers will find: * A fresh, modern look to the materials, including the feedback reports * A group comparison report page * A shorter workbook specifically designed for debriefing and understanding the Feedback Report * The latest data on the model * An updated facilitator's guide that focuses on LPI administration, debrief, and how a facilitator can develop one's leaders from there.Anyone can learn to be an effective leader if they are given the right feedback and tools. Help others to discover their leadership potential with the LPI!

THE STUDENT LEADERSHIP PRACTICES INVENTORY (Student LPI) is the only leadership tool designed specifically for students and young people. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the second edition of this celebrated instrument package approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360� leadership assessment tool helps students and young people measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner's acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership� model to real-life challenges.

Based on the best-selling book and popular Workshop of the same name,The Leadership Challenge Podcast Seriesis comprised of six podcasts that reinforce The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® model: Orienteering Inspire a Shared Vision Model the Way Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act Encourage the Heart Each podcast will be approximately 10-15 minutes in length and would include the following elements: Context setting for series - intentions and the reasoning behind the design Introduction of podcast topic and review of the basic concept Definition of the Practice Facilitator's recommendations - things you can do to strengthen the Practice and resources for other ideas. Tee up for story that follows. Interview with a leader who has either taken the LPI or the workshop and is focused on building capacity in this practice. What are they trying? What’s working? What’s challenging them? How are they building a practice and keeping their leadership development focused? Response from the facilitator on the story. As our workforce becomes more and more mobile and decentralized, and as learning "stickiness" remains a top priority,The Leadership Challenge Podcast Seriesis a must-have leadership development tool for today's most innovative organizations.

The LPI: Leadership Practices Inventory Workbook is a guide to debriefing and understanding one's LPI feedback report. It is designed for use in a workshop or one-on-one coaching setting. The Leadership Practices Inventory is the best-selling and most trusted leadership tool of its generation. This celebrated instrument packages approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. The 360-degree toll helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner's acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® model to real-life organizational challenges. With The Leadership Challenge, 5th Edition leading the way, it is time to update the Leadership Practices Inventory materials. In this 4th edition, customers will find: * A fresh, modern look to the materials, including the feedback reports * A group comparison report page * A shorter workbook specifically designed for debriefing and understanding the Feedback Report * The latest data on the model * An updated facilitator's guide that focuses on LPI administration, debrief, and how a facilitator can develop one's leaders from there.Anyone can learn to be an effective leader if they are given the right feedback and tools. Help others to discover their leadership potential with the LPI!

Story-driven framework for leaders to rebuild credibility when they fail to deliver on their promises The Radical Promise delivers a story-driven framework for leaders to increase their trust and credibility or rebuild it when their actions don't match their words. The storyline and concepts are equally applicable to every person, regardless of title or position, who is challenged to keep promises and commitments to make sure that what they "say" (promise) is what they do. ● Specific leadership challenges that make it difficult to match actions with words ● Why DWYSYWD (doing what you say you will do) is the foundation of how credibility is established, no matter the specifics of any situation ● Steps that can be taken to rebuild and polish one's brand, as the characters discover and authors explain The Radical Promise is an entertaining and thought-provoking book for today's leaders, as well as those aspiring to be or become even better leaders, seeking key lessons they can apply to their own organizations and professional lives.