New Releases by James M. Kouzes

Written by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner—two of the foremost experts on the topic of leadership—the Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator''s Guide to Exemplary Leadership clearly shows how anyone can develop the key leadership skills needed "to get extraordinary things done" on their campuses. This important resource outlines the principles and practices that are solidly based in more than two decades of quantitative and qualitative research. The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator''s Guide to Exemplary Leadership Describes the proven Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Explains the fundamental principles that support the key leadership practices Provides actual case examples of real people on college and university campuses who demonstrate each practice Offers specific recommendations on what to do to own these practices Shows how to continue to develop as a leader

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 Leadeship Practices Inventory (LPI), Self Instrument is a 30-item questionnaire that is used by participants to rate themselves on The Five Practices® behaviors. Each participant needs one LPI Self Instrument.

This unique leadership development program is for the young adult who aspires to be an exemplary leader. From the college classroom to the local youth club, the Student Leadership Practices Inventory has helped thousands of young people assess their leadership potential and improve their skills. Drawing from years of impeccable research and real-world experience, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have developed four practical resources that can be used alone or in a workshop setting: the Self, the Observer, the Student Workbook, and the Facilitator''s Guide. Both the Self and Observer are questionnaires for the student leader and the person who has observed the student in action. Each survey features thirty statements based on five important leadership practices: Challenging the Process, Inspiring a Shared Vision, Enabling Others to Act, Modeling the Way, and Encouraging the Heart. To score their results, participants will find in the Student Workbook grids for recording scores, charts for interpreting scores, and worksheets for summarizing and planning action steps. For those who need guidance in designing and conducting a student leadership program, there is the Facilitator''s Guide. In addition to detailed instructions and examples, workshop leaders will find masters for overhead transparencies and handouts, checklists for meeting the leadership challenge, normative data on different types of student leaders, and instructions for obtaining computerized scoring software.

These convenient computer scoring programs save you the time of scoring by hand so you can spAnd more time reviewing results with participants. In addition to providing standard results, these programs rank items from high to low, highlight opportunities for improvement, and show differences between self-perceptions and observer perceptions. You get scoring programs for: LPI: scores up to 100 leaders per sample with up to 10 observers per leaderLPI-X: scores up to 80 leaders per sample with up to 20 observers per leaderLPI -- Delta: scores up to 75 leaders per sample with 10 observers per leaderLPI -- IC: scores up to 100 individual contributors per sample with up to 10 observers per individual contributor All four scoring programs are contained on one reusable disk!