Learning Leadership

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The truth is the best leaders are the best learners. Leadership is a set of abilities, and like any other skill-set it can be learned and improved. Becoming an exemplary leader isn't easy. It takes self-belief, aspiration, grit, support, and deliberate practice. But with solid determination and supportive guidance everyone can learn to become better leaders than they are today. Learning Leadership delivers the concrete framework and practical steps for building exemplary leaders for today's and tomorrow's challenges. Whether you're an experienced leader or someone new to the role, this comprehensive guide offers evidence-based strategies for taking charge of your own leadership development and unleashing the leader within. Based on more than 30 years of research, with data from more than 70 countries, this insightful treatment on learning explores the fundamentals of becoming an exemplary leader and presents a solid foundation on which to strengthen and expand leadership skills. Through easily digestible chapters with self-coaching actions, you can use this book to cultivate the hard and soft skills you need to make a positive difference. For those in roles of mentoring and coaching people, the practical and proven framework in this inspiring resource enables you to develop leadership potential in the emerging leaders with whom you work. Specifically written to be a useful tool you can easily use during your day to promote lifelong learning and achievement, this invigorating resource enables you to: * Gain authoritative explanations on the myths, assumptions, and misconceptions inhibiting leadership development today * See firsthand evidence that the ability to learn is the most critical leadership skill, and the first thing you need to learn is who you are and what is important to you * Take initiative in your own development and start connecting to a network of resources to further your progress with support and helpful feedback * Become a better leader every day and stay positive and influential during difficult times An exemplary leader must master many skills, but one of the most important is the ability to learn. Learning Leadership challenges you to do the meaningful and disciplined work necessary to becoming the best you can be. And with this mindset and toolkit, you will be better equipped to make extraordinary things happen in your organization, community, and the lives of others.
From the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge and over a dozen award winning leadership books, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner have written a new book that examines a fundamental question: How do people learn leadership? How do they learn to become leaders? Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader (ISBN: 978-1-119-14428-1; Wiley; May 2016) is a comprehensive guide to unleashing the inner-leader in us all and to building a solid foundation for a lifetime of leadership growth and mastery. The book offers a concrete framework to help individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can be. Arguing that all individuals are born with the capacity to lead, Kouzes and Posner provide readers with a practical series of actions and specific coaching tips for harnessing that capacity and creating a context in which they can excel., Supported by over 30 years of research, from over seventy countries, and with examples from real-world leaders, Learning Leadership is a clarion call to unleash the leadership potential that is already present in today's society. According to Kouzes and Posner, "Leadership makes a significant difference in levels of engagement and commitment and is perhaps the most important asset in every organization, yet recent research points to a shortage of leaders. It is a serious global concern. The world needs more exemplary leaders in order to promote high-performing workplaces and inspire feelings of greater self-worth and meaningfulness. The shortage, however, is not because of the lack of potential talent. The people are out there, the eagerness is out there, and the capability is out there. The shortage results from prevailing myths--myths about talent, strengths, position, self-reliance, and effort--that inhibit the vast majority of leaders from shining and organizations from realizing the full benefits of the talent they already have." Learning Leadership provides readers with evidence-based strategies to ignite the habit of continuous improvement and the mindset of becoming the best leaders they can be. Emerging leaders, as well as leadership developers, internal and external coaches and trainers, and other human resource professionals will learn from first-hand stories and practical examples so that they can deeply understand and apply the fundamental for becoming the best leaders they can be. Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader is divided into digestible bite-sized chapters that encourage daily actions to becoming a better leader. Key takeaways from the book include: * Believe in Yourself. Believing in oneself is the essential first step in developing leadership competencies. The best leaders are learners, and they can't achieve mastery until and unless they truly decide that inside them there is a person who can make and difference and learn to be a better leader than they are right now. * Aspire to Excel. To become an exemplary leader, people have to determine what they care most about and why they want to lead. Leaders with values-based motivations are the most likely to excel. They also must have a clear image of the kind of leader they want to be in the future--and the legacy they want to leave for others. * Challenge Yourself. Challenging oneself is critical to learning leadership. Leaders have to seek new experiences and test themselves. There will be inevitable setbacks and failures along the way that require curiosity, grit, courage, and resilience in order to persist in learning and becoming the best. * Engage Support. One can't lead alone, and one can't learn alone.It is essential to get support and coaching on the path to achieving excellence. Whether it's family, managers at work, or professional coaches, leaders need the advice, feedback, care, and support of others. * Practice Deliberately. No one gets better at anything without continuous practice. Exemplary leaders spend more time practicing than ordinary leaders. Simply being in the role of a leader is insufficient. To achieve mastery, leaders must set improvement goals, participate in designed learning experiences, ask for feedback, and get coaching. They also put in the time every day and make learning leadership a daily habit. Kouzes and Posner offer unrivaled insights into what it means to become an exemplary leader in today's world with their original research and over 30 years of experience studying the practices of extraordinary leadership. They show that anyone can become a better leader if they believe in themselves, aspire to excel, challenge themselves, to grow, engage the support of others, and practice deliberately. Learning Leadership challenges readers to do the meaningful and disciplined work necessary to becoming the best they can, using a new mindset and toolkit that can make extraordinary things happen. It's not the once-in-a-while transformational acts that demonstrate leadership. It's the little things that one does day in and day out that pave the path to greatness.

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"Well-written and thoughtful, this book should prove useful to coaches looking to develop potential within their organisations and their client companies." (The Irish Times, May 2016) "This book contains a wealth of useful and unarguable insights about the nature of leadership" (Financial Times, June 2016) "This book offers a framework to help individuals of all levels, functions and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can" (HR Magazine, June 2016) "A comprehensive guide to taking charge. Based on more than three decades of research, this pep talk shows how anyone can become a better leader through practical tips." (Cara Magazine, August 2016)
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