The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development Into Business Results

The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development Into Business Results
By Calhoun W. Wick, Roy V. H. Pollock, Andrew McK. Jefferson, Richard D. Flanagan

Publisher: Pfeiffer
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2006-04-14
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0787982547
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780787982546

The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning presents an innovative approach that accelerates the transfer and application of corporate learning. The Six Disciplines provides the definitive road map and tools for optimizing the business impact of leadership and management training, sales, quality, performance improvement, and individual development programs. This important book presents the theories and techniques behind the approach and includes expert advice for bridging the learning-doing gap. The authors recommendations are illustrated with dozens of real-life examples from successful companies on the cutting edge of results-driven educational performance.

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The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company

The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company
By Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel

Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0787951722
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780787951726

Together, these authors have more first-hand experience in leadership development and succession planning than you're likely to find anywhere else. And here, they show companies how to create a pipeline of talent that will continuously fill their leadership needs-needs they may not even yet realize. The Leadership Pipeline delivers a proven framework for priming future leaders by planning for their development, coaching them, and measuring the results of those efforts. Moreover, the book presents a combination leadership-development/succession-planning program that ensures a steady line-up of leaders for every critical position within the company. It's an approach that bolsters the retention of intellectual capital as it eliminates the need to go outside for expensive "stars," who will probably jump ship before they reach their full potential anyway.

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Leadership and Management for HR Professionals

Leadership and Management for HR Professionals
By Keith Porter, Paul Smith, Roger Fagg

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2005-10-17
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 075066794X
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780750667944

This is a new and completely revised edition of the successful text published in 2000 entitled Core Management. The book provides excellent coverage of the CIPD syllabus for three core areas of the CIPD syllabus.

New end of chapter website links are included. The text is written in an easy-to-read style and each chapter is linked to other relevant parts of the book.

• * Provides excellent coverage of the CIPD Leadership and Management Standards
• Includes self-assessment exercises, exam questions, further reading and research
• New edition of the best-selling Core Management by Winfield et al and companion text to Managing Information: Core Management by Bedward and Stredwick

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Coaching Yourself to Leadership

Coaching Yourself to Leadership
By Ginny O'Brien

Publisher: HRD Press, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0874258693
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780874258691

Let a highly successful business coach transform your work life Coaching Yourself to Leadership: 5 Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader Ginny O’Brien What would happen if a respected business coach gave you a new model for leadership that could help you achieve the happiness, productivity and fulfillment at work you so desire? It would change your life. That’s exactly what author Ginny O’Brien has done. She’s a certified business coach who draws on an approach she’s used successfully for years in her practice to develop effective leaders. It integrates competencies from three domains of leadership—self, work and others—and emphasizes both masculine and feminine elements of strength. O’Brien’s themes—be authentic, visionary, emotionally intelligent, an assertive communicator and connected to others through relationships and alliances—are covered in-depth in separate chapters. Exercises, tools and specific guidance are also provided to help you turn the information presented into everyday practices. The purpose of the book is not to help you become the next Jack Welch—being a great leader doesn’t mean you have to get to the top. Rather, it is to provide you with practices and techniques that will transform you into a more positive, authentic leader who can make work better for yourself and those you currently lead.

Sample topics:
• Identifying values: Getting to the core of you
• The dilemma of defensive behaviors
• Leadership and parenting: The same skill set
• Dealing with people you don’t respect
• Assertive vs aggressive
• Passive-aggressive communicators: The Alienators
• The art of asking powerful questions
• Managing your fear
• The problem with delegating perfection

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6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses

6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses
By Stephen E. Kohn, Vincent D. O'connell

Publisher: Career Press
Number Of Pages: 222
Publication Date: 2005-09-30
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 1564148327
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9781564148322

"This is a wonderful book for managers to read. It is comprehensible, concise and filled with useful wisdom on the human aspects of leadership."

—Mike Wilk, Partner and Practice Leader, Ernst & Young

"The 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses provides an excellent training model that a manager can both fully appreciate and easily implement."

—Raymond G. Steitz, V.P. of Global Human Resources, Warner Chilcott Laboratories

People management can be the most rewarding—and frustrating—part of a leader’s job. What aptitudes are valued most in managers and executives? Substantial research and a wealth of shared organizational experience demonstrate that it is a manager’s "people skills" that truly make the difference.

In The 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses, co-authors Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent D. O’Connell present an easy-to-read, sensibly presented review of six indispensable human relations practices used by the bosses everyone admires – and likes to work for – the most. With a combined fifty years of experience helping companies resolve "people problems" in the workplace, management coaches and leadership trainers Kohn and O’Connell guide managers through a sensible, incremental model of supervisory "people skills" development.

The 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses also provides a means for managers to coach themselves toward goals that they are encouraged to set for themselves, and the end result is not only knowledge gained, but also greater applied supervisory competency. By practicing the strategically conceived exercises, managers can apply the recommended skills to real workplace supervisory challenges.

For the busy manager seeking effective and timely results from leadership development training, this book can become a springboard for solid professional growth and accelerated success in the development of all-important people management skills.

Stephen E. Kohn has twenty-five years of experience as a management coach, counselor and therapist, specializing in the workplace. Kohn practices in White Plains, NY.

Vincent D. O’Connell has twenty-seven years of experience in behavioral sciences and healthcare. He specializes in corporate training, curriculum development, content development and human resources consulting. O’Connell lives and works in Bethlehem, PA

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Organizational Behavior I: Essential Theories Of Motivation And Leadership

Organizational Behavior I: Essential Theories Of Motivation And Leadership
By John B. Miner

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2005-03-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0765615231
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780765615237

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The Daily Disciplines of Leadership: How to Improve Student Achievement, Staff Motivation, and Personal Organization

The Daily Disciplines of Leadership: How to Improve Student Achievement, Staff Motivation, and Personal Organization (Jossey Bass Education Series)
By Douglas B. Reeves

Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2002-11-04
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0787964034
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780787964030

The Daily Disciplines of Leadership is a comprehensive and down-to-earth manual for school leaders that addresses the daunting challenges that today's principals, superintendents, and teacher-leaders face on a daily basis. Written by Douglas Reeves— a leading authority on academic standards, performance assessment, and accountability— the information in this book is based on his extensive experience working with educators, administrators, and school board members from across the country and internationally. Reeves discusses the basic purpose of leadership, presents four key leadership archetypes, and offers practical recommendations for action. Covering a wide range of topics— from accountability systems to personal communications— this book will serve as the 'go to' resource for novice and seasoned school leaders alike.

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Motivation, Emotions, and Leadership: The Silent Side of Management

Motivation, Emotions, and Leadership: The Silent Side of Management
By Richard C. Maddock, Richard L. Fulton

Publisher: Quorum Books
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 1998-10-30
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 1567201512
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9781567201512

Leadership is motivation and motivation is leadership, say the authors of this important and unique study. The two elements are inseparable, but until now no one has actually conceptualized motivation in a useful way to demonstrate and analyze the connection between it and leadership. The key for leaders is dealing with the emotions that underlie and activate motivation. Maddock and Fulton provide a highly successful, proven, and replicable approach not only to motivate people, but also to train them to lead others. The authors develop an 11 level structure of human motivation that defines and describes motivation in simple, graphic, all-inclusive language. They then show how leaders can use this motivational hierarchy to solve complex problems in the workplace. The result is a blueprint to help executives in all types of organizations manage more effectively, and as they do so, to motivate and truly lead the people who depend on them for guidance and direction. Maddock and Fulton offer several scenarios to show how their ideas work in practice. In the "vertical fix" they demonstrate how motives that get out of synch with each other can be re-aligned, eliminating the chaos that would otherwise occur. In the "lateral fix" they show how a person who may be functioning at the extreme edge of motivation can be moved back toward the center, a place where the person's effect on others is most and best felt. Well documented throughout, their book will be important reading for training and development professionals, specialists in organizational behavior, and executives at all levels in public and private sectors.

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Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value

Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value
By Bill George

Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2003-08-01
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0787969133
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780787969134

In the wake of continuing corporate scandals there have been few, if any, CEOs that have stepped forward as models of "doing things right"—except the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, Bill George. George has become the unofficial spokesperson for responsible leadership—in business, the media, and academia.

In Authentic Leadership Bill George makes the case that we do need new leaders, not just new laws, to bring us out of the current corporate crisis. He persuasively demonstrates that authentic leaders of mission-driven companies will create far greater shareholder value than financially oriented companies. During George's twelve-year leadership at Medtronic, the company's market capitalization soared from $1.1 billion to $460 billion, averaging 350er year.

George candidly recounts many of the toughest challenges he encountered -- from ethical dilemmas and battles with the FDA to his own development as a leader. He shows how to develop the five essential dimensions of authentic leaders—purpose, values, heart, relationships, and self-discipline. Authentic Leadership offers inspiring lessons to all who want to lead with heart and with compassion for those they serve.

Bill George helps readers answer vital questions such as: What should I do when my personal values conflict with company business values? How do I make trade-offs between the needs of my customers, my employees, and my company's shareholders? Do I really want to devote my talents to business? Authentic Leadership provides a tested guide for character-based leaders and all those who have a stake in the integrity and success of our corporations.

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Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time

Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time
By Kevin Eikenberry

Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2007-08-17
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 078799619X
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780787996192

Remarkable Leadership is a practical handbook written for anyone who wants to hone the skills they need to become an outstanding leader. In this groundbreaking book, Kevin Eikenberry outlines a framework and a mechanism for both learning new things and applying current knowledge in a thoughtful and practical way. Eikenberry provides a guide through the most important leadership competencies, offers a proven method for learning leadership skills, and shows approaches for applying these skills in today’s multitasking and overloaded world of work. The book explores real-world concerns such as focus, limited time, incremental improvement, and how we learn.

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The Psychology of Leadership: New Perspectives and Research

The Psychology of Leadership: New Perspectives and Research (LEA's Organization and Management Series)
By: David M. Messick(Editor) Roderick M. Kramer(Editor)

Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
ISBN: 0805840958
Publication Date: 2004-08
Number of page: 360 Pages

This edited book on a popular topic, "Leadership" should do very well. It explores new ideas about the psychology of leadership and looks at it from the side of social psychology.

In this book, some of the world's leading scholars come together to describe their thinking and research on the topic of the psychology of leadership. Most of the chapters were originally presented as papers at a research conference held in 2001 at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. The contributions span traditional social psychological areas, as well as organizational theory; examining leadership as a psychological process and as afforded by organizational constraints and opportunities. The editors' goal was not to focus the chapters on a single approach to the study and conceptualization of leadership but rather to display the diversity of issues that surround the topic.

Leadership scholars have identified a host of approaches to the study of leadership. What are the personal characteristics of leaders? What is the nature of the relation between leaders and followers? Why do we perceive some people to be better leaders than others? What are the circumstances that evoke leadership qualities in people? Can leadership be taught? And so on. The contributions to this book examine these important questions and fall into three categories: conceptions of leadership, factors that influence the effectiveness of leadership, and the consequences and effects of leadership on the leader. All in all, the chapters of this volume display part of a broad spectrum of novel and important approaches to the study of the psychology of leadership. We hope that they are equally useful to those who are or would be leaders and to those who study the topic. As recent events have served to remind us, it is too important a topic to be ignored by psychologists.

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The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership: Over 250 Terms, Concepts, Strategies & Initiatives of the Legendary Leader

The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership: Over 250 Terms, Concepts, Strategies & Initiatives of the Legendary Leader
by Jeffrey A. Krames

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2001-08-17
ISBN/ ASIN: 0071381406
EAN: 9780071381406

A comprehensive guide to the strategies and initiatives of legendary CEO Jack Welch

In his two decades as CEO, Jack Welch's principles, strategies, and tenets transformed GE into one of history's most dynamic and valuable corporations. As a result, executives in all industries are now eager to hear Welch's every pronouncement­­and implement his strategies in their own organizations.

The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership is the first alphabetically structured collection to place Welch's career in perspective, and trace the evolution of his key ideas and innovations. Intended to stand on its own as well as complement Welch's eagerly awaited upcoming memoir, this timely book provides readers with analysis and perspective on Six Sigma­­the revolutionary program that "changed the DNA of GE"­­as well as dozens of other Welch concepts and initiatives (including Globalization, Work-Out, the E-Initiative, and others).

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