The Leadership Challenge Planner: An Action Guide to Achieving Your Personal Best

by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

From the legAndary authors of The Leadership Challenge comes this practical implementation tool you'll use to plan your next major project! Over one million professionals have used Kouzes and Posner's resources to improve their leadership ability. Again and again, users have asked for more follow-up materials, enabling them to make practical use of the tenets of the famous five practices of exemplary leadership. The Leadership Challenge Planner is your answer.

Even if you haven't previously used Kouzes and Posner's five-practices model, you'll find The Leadership Challenge Planner vital to preparing, implementing, and evaluating your next project. This tool helps you to achieve what the authors refer to as a "personal best"--that is, a leadership accomplishment with extraordinary results.

You get easy-to-use worksheets that make efficient planning simple and practical. After completing the worksheets for the five practices of exemplary leadership, you'll assemble a blueprint and a weekly planner for implementing your ideas.

You'll appreciate Kouzes and Posner's celebrated insight, as well as their proven, systematic approach to exemplary leadership. There's never been a project management resource like this one. Purchase multiple planners so you'll have the means to achieve personal bests in all of your upcoming projects!

You'll use this hands-on resource to: **Improve your ability to communicate a vision **Strengthen co-worker commitment **Build trust and employee satisfaction . . . and much more! Praise for other Kouzes and Posner resources: "I found myself constantly nodding and saying to myself, 'That's right! That's how it's done! That's what it feels like!' [Kouzes and Posner] capture the essence of what I've found is at the heart of transforming leadership." --Robert D. Haas, chairman and CEO, Levi Strauss & Co.

"Kouzes and Posner are two of the best people in my field."

--Ken Blanchard, author, Gung Ho! and The One Minute Manager series

"The Leadership Challenge is a masterpiece!"

--Herb Kelleher, president and CEO, Southwest Airlines

Genres: Leadership, Business

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Jim Kouzes has been thinking about leadership ever since he was one of only a dozen Eagle Scouts to be selected to serve in John F. Kennedy's honor guard when Kennedy was inaugurated President of the United States. Kennedy's inaugural call to action -- "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." -- inspired Jim to join the Peace Corps, and he taught school in Turkey for two years. That experience made Jim realize that he wanted a career that offered two things: the chance to teach and the opportunity to serve. It was in his first job back in the U.S. training community action agency managers that Jim found his calling, and he has devoted his life to leadership development ever since.
Jim Kouzes is the coauthor with Barry Z. Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, with over 3.0 million copies in print. He's a Fellow of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University and also served as the Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. Jim and Barry have coauthored many bestselling leadership books including A Leader's Legacy, Encouraging the Heart, The Truth About Leadership, and Credibility. They are also the developers of The Leadership Practices Inventory—the bestselling off-the-shelf leadership assessment in the world. Their books are extensively researched-based, and over 500 doctoral dissertations and academic studies have been based on their original work.
Not only is Jim a highly regarded leadership scholar, The Wall Street Journal cited Jim as one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S. He is the 2010 recipient of the Thought Leadership Award from the Instructional Systems Association, listed as one of HR Magazine’s Most Influential International Thinkers, named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America, and ranked by Leadership Excellence magazine as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders. Jim was presented with the Golden Gavel, the highest honor awarded by Toastmasters International, and he and Barry are also the recipients of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award, presented in recognition of their extensive body of work and the significant impact they have had on learning and performance in the workplace.