The Trainer's Handbook of Leadership Development: Tools, Techniques, and Activities

ISBN-10: 1118094395
ISBN-13: 9781118094396
Category: Business & Economics
Pages: 280
Language: English
Published: 2011-08-02
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Author: Karen Lawson

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The Trainer's Handbook of Leadership Development offersfacilitators, human resource professionals, and consultants awide-variety of tools and techniques for developing leadershipcompetencies and characteristics. Drawing on research from suchgiants in the leadership field as Warren Bennis, Ken Blanchard,James Kouzes, and Barry Posner, the book's thought-provokingactivities are designed to create real and lasting behaviorchange. "The Trainer's Handbook of Leadership Development features theproven activities and tools that will involve and inspireparticipants to develop the skills and characteristics that willequip them to lead us into the future. Karen has brought together apowerful collection of tools, competency models, exercises, andtraining necessary for developing leaders in today's workplace. Irecommend this book for anyone who is implementing a leadershipdevelopment program within their organization. It could easily beused to build the entire program from scratch."—Louis Carter,CEO, Best Practice Institute "What a gem of a book Karen Lawson has written! Drawing onresearch by leadership gurus, Karen presents 45 competencies andcharacteristics critical to leadership excellence. She mines eachof these facets for a solid definition and the significance ofeach. Although many authors shy away from discussing leadershipqualities such as authenticity and empathy, Karen deals with themdirectly. She presents activities that future leaders can use toexplore personal leadership qualities. This book is 24kt gold. Ifyou are a leadership development professional, this book is sure tobecome your gold standard when searching for creative yet practicalways to help develop others into outstanding leaders of thefuture."—Elaine Biech, editor, The ASTD Leadership Handbookand author, The Business of Consulting "Developing the complex skills of leadership is critical forpersonal and organizational success. If you are responsible forhelping others build these skills, this book deserves a spot onyour bookshelf—or maybe your desk—because you will use itoften!"—Kevin Eikenberry, author, Remarkable Leadership:Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time

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