Most Popular Books by James M. KOUZES

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.

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-degree 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. Everything you need to obtain and deliver complete 360° feedback for your participants is in this easy-to-use instrument package including: LPI Facilitator''s Guide LPI Self LPI Observer LPI Participant''s Workbook LPI Leadership Development Planner LPI CD-ROM (Includes Windows-based Scoring Software, visuals, and forms) The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Article The Leadership Challenge Poster The Leadership Challenge Card The Leadership Challenge Book (hardcover) The newly revised LPI offers in-depth, precise results. The Scoring Software produces a detailed Feedback Report for each participant and has the capability to save data for score comparisons over multiple administrations. Designed to be user-friendly, the updated Participant''s Workbook quickly takes participants to the heart and soul of their Feedback Report. And the new Leadership Development Planner was created to be used over several months of coaching sessions. Give your participants the skills to master The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®: Model the Way Inspire a Shared Vision Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act Encourage the Heart 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!

This book gives educators the flexible, modularized building blocks for teaching students how to apply Kouzes and Posner''s Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The guide includes language, guidance, and activities for teaching each Practice and its associated leadership behaviors, as well as tips for coaching students through their leadership development. It also includes direction on using the Student Leadership Practices Inventory, advice for working with students using the Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal, and curriculum suggestions for different educational contexts.

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.

De los legendarios autores de El desafío del liderazgo llega esta práctica herramienta de puesta en ejecución que usted podrá utilizar para planificar su próximo proyecto importante. Más de un millón de profesionales del management han leído los libros de Kouzes y Posner -entre ellos El desafío del liderazgo, Credibilidad, Brindar aliento (publicados por Ediciones Granica), y Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)- para mejorar su capacidad de liderazgo. En forma reiterada, los lectores han solicitado disponer de mayor cantidad de materiales de seguimiento para aplicar adecuadamente los principios de las famosas cinco prácticas de liderazgo ejemplar. El planificador para líderes constituye la respuesta a esos pedidos. Quienes no hayan utilizado antes este modelo también encontrarán que es vital para preparar, llevar a cabo y evaluar sus próximos proyectos. Esta herramienta los ayudará a lograr lo que los autores denominan "su mejor desempeño personal", o sea, una forma de liderazgo que produzca resultados excepcionales. Cada capítulo contiene planillas que simplifican la planificación. Luego de completarlas, el lector podrá amar un planificador maestro y planificadores semanales que le permitirán concretar sus ideas. Al mismo tiempo mejorará su capacidad de comunicar sus reflexiones, fortalecer el compromiso de sus colegas, crear confianza entre sus compañeros de trabajo y sustentar la satisfacción de los empleados. "Me sorprendo constantemente asintiendo y diciéndome: ''¡Correcto! ¡Así es como se debe hacer!'' Kouzes y Posner capturan la esencia de lo que yo personalmente he encontrado en el centro mismo del liderazgo transformador." Robert D. Haas, presidente y CEO, Levi Strauss & Co. James M. Kouzes es presidente de Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems, que realiza trabajos de capacitación sobre liderazgo por medio de programas de aprendizaje prácticos y orientados al desempeño. El Wall Street Journal lo destacó como uno de los doce "proveedores de educación no universitaria para ejecutivos" más requeridos por las empresas de los Estados Unidos. En coautoría con Barry Posner ha publicado, además de esta obra, El desafío del liderazgo: cómo obtener permanentemente logros extraordinarios en las organizaciones (Ed. Granica, 1997); Credibilidad: cómo ganarla y perderla, y por qué la gente la requiere (Ed. Granica, 1996), elegido por Industry Week como uno de los cinco mejores libros de management de ese año, y Brindar aliento (Ed. Granica, 2005). Barry Z. Posner es decano de la Escuela Leavey de Negocios de la Universidad de Santa Clara, California, y profesor de conducta organizativa. Ha recibido diversos premios a la educación y el liderazgo, ha publicado más de ochenta artículos dirigidos a la investigación y la práctica del liderazgo, y es editor de revistas especializadas. Junto con James Kouzes ha llevado a cabo programas de liderazgo para conocidas organizaciones, entre otras, 3M, AT&T, Boy Scouts of America, Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Ciba-Geigy, Dell Computer, Federal Express, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss, Toshiba, Xerox y la YMCA (Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes).

Includes one copy each of The Student Leadership Challenge, Second Edition, Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal, Facilitation and Activity Guide, Student LPI Scoring Software, and Student LPI Self Inventory, and three copies of the Student LPI Observer Inventory.

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 degree 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. Everything you need to obtain and deliver complete 360 degree feedback for your participants is in this easy-to-use instrument package including: LPI Facilitator''s Guide LPI Self LPI Observer LPI Participant''s Workbook LPI Leadership Development Planner LPI CD-ROM (Includes Scoring Software, visuals, and forms) The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Article The Leadership Challenge Poster The Leadeship Challenge Card The newly revised LPI offers in-depth, precise results. The Scoring Software produces a detailed Feedback Report for each participant and has the capability to save data for score comparisons over multiple administrations. Designed to be user-friendly, the updated Participant''s Workbook quickly takes participants to the heart and soul of their Feedback Report. And the new Leadership Development Planner was created to be used over several months of coaching sessions. Give your participants the skills to master The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership: Model the Way Inspire a Shared Vision Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act Encourage the Heart 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!

Buy the set and save! Includes one copy each of The Student Leadership Challenge Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal, Facilitation and Activity Guide, Student LPI Scoring Software, and Student LPI Self Inventory, and three copies of the Student LPI Observer Inventory. No other discounts apply.

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.

The LPI: Leadership Practices Inventory Card is a reminder resource that leaders can use to recall 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 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!

Leadership is learnable . . . and teachable! Give your managers and supervisors the skills to master the five essential areas of leadership: Challenging the process Inspiring a shared vision Enabling others to act Modeling the way Encouraging the heart The revised edition of the LPI includes: New ten-point Likert scale New scoring software which produces detailed printouts for each participant Participant workbooks that now include more than 140 actual steps-to-results All the tools you need to obtain complete 360? feedback Three month follow-up program to track participant''s progress LPI: Self: Use this 30-item inventory to evaluate your performance and effectiveness as a leader. For an even more detailed evaluation, use LPI: Self in conjunction with the LPI: Observer. Results from the simple scoring process will help you develop plans for improvement. The accompanying guidebook includes a worksheet to help interpret feedback and plan improvement in each leadership practice assessed, sections on how to compare scores with the normative sample and on how to share feedback with constituents, and more than 140 actual steps you can take to get results. Includes one copy of the Participant''s Workbook. LPI: Observer: Get a clear picture of how you function as a team leader by combining anonymous perceptions of constituents and colleagues, with your own manager self-assessment. The LPI: Observerprovides a balanced picture of leadership traits and allows for constructive discussion of ways to improve. LPI: Facilitator''s Guide: Here''s everything you need to facilitate the LPI program:The LPI Facilitator''s Guide, which includes a copy of the LPI: Observer instrument and outlines a detailed workshop design including prework requirements and instructions for administering, processing, and scoring the instrument. And the guide now includes the Windows-based LPI Scoring Software. Deluxe Facilitator''s Package: Get the LPI Facilitator''s Guide plus a copy of the best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, for one special low price! Remember to get one instrument for each participant.

A lideranCa nao e um privilegio limitado a uns poucos sortudos. e um conjunto observavel e assimilavel de habilidades e compet?ncias que sao aplicaveis em todos os nIveis. -- Jim Kouzes e Barry Posner O Inventario das Praticas de LideranCa (LPI) e a ferramenta de lideranCa mais confiavel e mais vendida de sua geraCao. Desenvolvida por Jim Kouzes e Barry Posner, a terceira ediCao deste renomado pacote de instrumentos aborda a lideranCa como um conjunto de comportamentos mensuravel, assimilavel e que pode ser ensinado. Essa ferramenta de 360? para avaliaCao da lideranCa ajuda indivIduos e organizaC?es a medir suas compet?ncias em lideranCa, ao mesmo tempo que os orienta atraves do processo de aplicaCao do aclamado Modelo das Cinco Praticas de LideranCa Exemplar de Kouzes e Posner aos desafios organizacionais de sua vida diaria. Revisto recentemente, o LPI oferece resultados profundos e precisos para ajudar voc? a se tornar um lIder capaz de: TraCar o Caminho Inspirar uma Visao Compartilhada Desafiar o Processo Capacitar os Outros a Agir Encorajar o CoraCao O Planejador do Desenvolvimento da LideranCa continua a partir do ponto final do Livro de Trabalho do Participante do LPI e ajuda a levar voc? ao nIvel seguinte no desenvolvimento de suas habilidades de lideranCa. O Planejador rev? as Cinco Praticas de LideranCa Exemplar(R), descreve as melhores praticas para aprender a liderar e contem mais de uma centena de atividades de desenvolvimento a seguir para se tornar um lIder melhor. O Planejador pode ser adaptado a sua situaCao especIfica e ajudara voc? a: Entender como as pessoas aprendem a liderar Integrar as melhores praticas de aprendizado de lideranCa em sua propria rotina Examinar conscientemente seu progresso para se tornar um lIder melhor Selecionar as atividades de desenvolvimento que melhor atendem as suas necessidades Criar um plano para as proximas etapas do desenvolvimento de sua lideranCa Aplicar um processo reproduzIvel de facil utilizaCao O Planejador e o seu recurso essencial de LPI para determinar as opC?es mais apropriadas ao prosseguimento da sua jornada de desenvolvimento da lideranCa. e o seu guia na personalizaCao dos seus planos para se tornar o melhor lIder possIvel.

"A lideranCa nao e um privilegio limitado a uns poucos sortudos. e um conjunto observavel e assimilavel de habilidades e compet?ncias que sao aplicaveis em todos os nIveis." -- Jim Kouzes e Barry Posner O Inventario das Praticas de LideranCa (LPI) e a ferramenta de lideranCa mais confiavel e mais vendida de sua geraCao. Desenvolvida por Jim Kouzes e Barry Posner, a terceira ediCao deste renomado pacote de instrumentos aborda a lideranCa como um conjunto de comportamentos mensuravel, assimilavel e que pode ser ensinado. Essa ferramenta de 360? para avaliaCao da lideranCa ajuda indivIduos e organizaC?es a medir suas compet?ncias em lideranCa, ao mesmo tempo que os orienta atraves do processo de aplicaCao do aclamado Modelo das Cinco Praticas de LideranCa Exemplar de Kouzes e Posner aos desafios organizacionais de sua vida diaria. Revisto recentemente, o LPI oferece resultados profundos e precisos para ajudar voc? a se tornar um lIder capaz de: TraCar o Caminho Inspirar uma Visao Compartilhada Desafiar o Processo Capacitar os Outros a Agir Encorajar o CoraCao O Planejador do Desenvolvimento da LideranCa continua a partir do ponto final do Livro de Trabalho do Participante do LPI e ajuda a levar voc? ao nIvel seguinte no desenvolvimento de suas habilidades de lideranCa. O Planejador rev? as Cinco Praticas de LideranCa Exemplar(R), descreve as melhores praticas para aprender a liderar e contem mais de uma centena de atividades de desenvolvimento a seguir para se tornar um lIder melhor. O Planejador pode ser adaptado a sua situaCao especIfica e ajudara voc? a: Entender como as pessoas aprendem a liderar Integrar as melhores praticas de aprendizado de lideranCa em sua propria rotina Examinar conscientemente seu progresso para se tornar um lIder melhor Selecionar as atividades de desenvolvimento que melhor atendem as suas necessidades Criar um plano para as proximas etapas do desenvolvimento de sua lideranCa Aplicar um processo reproduzIvel de facil utilizaCao O Planejador e o seu recurso essencial de LPI para determinar as opC?es mais apropriadas ao prosseguimento da sua jornada de desenvolvimento da lideranCa. e o seu guia na personalizaCao dos seus planos para se tornar o melhor lIder possIvel.