A Coach's Guide to Developing Exemplary Leaders: Making the Most of The Leadership Challenge and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) (J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes Posner)

383 Pages·2010·1.83 MB·English

by  James M. Kouzes

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good coaches lead. Now, in A Coach’s Guide to Developing Exemplary Leaders, leadership experts Jim | P JAMES M. KOUZES | BARRY Z. POS N E R
Kouzes and Barry Posner and coaching expert Elaine Biech show you how to incorporate the proven lead- O
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A Coach’s Guide to Developing Exemplary Leaders introduces coaches to The Leadership Challenge®
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model, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), and The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®—Model IE
the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart— C
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and provides a road map for quickly and easily including them in your coaching regiment to:
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• Enable leaders to implement The Five Practices in their daily routine
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• Customize a program for the classroom, online, or one-on-one coaching A
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• Address questions and facilitate solutions to common problems
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Filled with best practices and success stories as well as worksheets and checklists, A Coach’s Guide to
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JAMES M. KOUZES and BARRY Z. POSNER are the bestselling coauthors of AD
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Credibility, Encouraging the Heart, and The Leadership Challenge Workbook, and

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over a dozen other books and workbooks on leadership. They also developed the T
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ELAINE BIECH is president and managing principal of ebb associates, inc, a strategic imple-
mentation, leadership development, and experiential learning consulting fi rm. She is also the V
author of over four dozen books and articles including Training for Dummies. Her website can
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Discover more at www.leadershipchallenge.com O Making the Most of THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE
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WHY IS THIS TOPIC IMPORTANT?
The Leadership Challenge focuses on how to be a successful
leader. The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®
presents fi ve practices that individuals can put into
action to bring out the best in themselves and those
they lead. Kouzes and Posner have also identifi ed Ten
Commitments of Leadership that correspond to The Five
Practices. Research proves that this content, when put into
practice, builds more effective leadership skills, resulting
in exemplary leaders. In addition, many Fortune 500
companies see a direct correlation between coaching and
excellent leadership skills. This book is important because
it ties together these two powerful competencies: The Five
Practices of Exemplary Leadership® and coaching.
WHAT CAN YOU ACHIEVE WITH
THIS BOOK?
This book offers you an opportunity to combine two
exciting and practical concepts: leadership and coaching.
It lays out the basics of Kouzes and Posner’ s Five
Practices and a failsafe coaching model. When the two are
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combined, it results in a powerful method to assist leaders
to practice leadership skills for reaching excellence.
The purpose of this book is twofold:
(cid:129) It provides trainers, consultants, and others working
with The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® a
reliable process to coach leaders.
(cid:129) It provides coaches with an overview of The Five Practices
as well as examples of what can be done to improve them.
HOW IS THIS BOOK ORGANIZED?
The book includes eleven chapters divided into two
distinct parts. Part I, Coaching to Improve The Five
Practices, is written for experienced coaches who have
their own coaching process and are looking for ideas
(questions, activities, books, or other resources) they can
use with clients who have completed the LPI. Chapters
2 through 6 present of The Five Practices and introduce
dozens of ideas to help a leader improve and increase the
frequency of the behaviors that support each.
Part II, Improve Your Coaching Competence, provides
an overview of coaching. It is written for someone who
is familiar with The Leadership Challenge practices, but
wants to learn more about coaching. Chapter 7 presents
an overview of coaching, and Chapter 8 allows coaches,
new as well as experienced, to assess and improve their
coaching skills. Chapter 9 lays out a coaching process
that takes a leader from feedback to success. Chapter
10 addresses what to do when things go wrong, and
Chapter 1 1 helps coaches coach themselves to greater
heights, providing ideas to improve their skills as well as
knowledge about The Leadership Challenge concepts.
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Making the Most of
The Leadership Challenge and the
Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)
JAMES M. KOUZES AND BARRY Z. POSNER
WITH ELAINE BIECH
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kouzes, James M.
A coach’s guide to developing exemplary leaders: making the most of the leadership challenge and
the leadership practices inventory (LPI) / James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner with Elaine Biech.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-37711-6 (pbk.)
1. Executive coaching. 2. Leadership. 3. Executive ability. I. Posner, Barry Z. II. Biech, Elaine.
III. Title.
HD30.4.K68 2010
658.4'092—dc22
2010015503

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Part I: Coaching to Improve the Five Practices 1
Chapter 1 Accept the Leadership Challenge 3
Chapter 2 Coaching to Model the Way 21
Chapter 3 Coaching to Inspire a Shared Vision 57
Chapter 4 Coaching to Challenge the Process 89
Chapter 5 Coaching to Enable Others to Act 125
Chapter 6 Coaching to Encourage the Heart 167
Part II: Improve Your Coaching Competence 205
Chapter 7 Coaching for Success 207
Chapter 8 Coaching Competencies 233
Chapter 9 The Coaching Process 291
Chapter 10 Coaching When Things Go Awry 319
Chapter 11 Coach Yourself to Mastery 331
Reading List for Coaches 347
Index 351
About the Authors 365
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