Essential Leadership

Develop Your Leadership Qualities Through Theory and Practice

This book

• Contains all the essential and emerging theories and models of leadership to give students and practitioners a solid and rigorous academic underpinning to their leadership development • Combines this theory with practical guidance based on research in the field and case studies, allowing students and practitioners to unite academic background with real-life situations in order to strengthen themselves as leaders • Self-assessment tools and reflective exercises enable students and practitioners to discover their personal leadership style, their strengths and weaknesses, and learn how to become better leaders • Online Resources: PowerPoint lecture slides and an instructor's manual

Description

Essential Leadership is a practical, accessible book that tackles theory and practice in an integrated and stimulating way. You are encouraged to engage with a wide range of leadership theories and frameworks as well as rate your own leadership skills and qualities, make realistic self-development plans and start to experiment with new or different approaches. Rather than offering one best way forward or becoming overly theoretical, this book is a pragmatic resource for new and experienced leaders looking to navigate the leadership literature and start to fully realize their own leadership potential.

Supported by exercises, practical examples, rigorous self-assessments, advice and suggestions, Essential Leadership offers an important guide for those currently working, or planning to work, in a 21st century business environment with all its complexity and uncertainty. It provides an over-arching framework of five essential leadership qualities that can be refined and combined as leaders grow, allowing them to be particularly responsive to the business context. The book allows readers to discover and develop their own leadership qualities, and master them through understanding, experimentation, feedback and reflection. Cutting-edge research into Millennial Leadership is also included, as are sections on developing your leadership maturity throughout life, and how leadership culture forms and changes. Online supporting resources include lecture slides and an instructor's manual.

Author Information

Esther Cameron has been experimenting with approaches to leadership and change for 25 years. She is a founding Director of Integral Change Consulting Ltd and was previously a lecturer for the University of Bristol. Together with Mike Green, she is co-author of Making Sense of Change Management (also published by Kogan Page).

Mike Green is Director of Transitional Space Ltd, and a Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School where he tutors and coaches in Leadership and Change. Mike also delivers bespoke and accredited learning programmes in Change Management to managers and change agents globally. Edition: 1 Date: 03/02/2017 Price: £39.99 Paperback: 9780749477400 Ebook: 9780749477417 Pages: 400 Format (mm): 234x156 Product Category: Textbook Subject: Leadership

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

1 Leading in a New Era

2 Leadership Frameworks and Research 2 Leadership Traits and Characteristics

3 Contingency Theories 4 Situational Leadership 5 Psychodynamics, Power and the Shadow 6 Transformational and Transactional

Leadership 7 Strategic and Innovation Leadership 8 Change Leadership 9 Leadership Responsibility and Values 10 Leading across Organizations and

Networks 11 Leadership Health – Mind, Body and Spirit

3 Learning to Lead in Practice

12 What Does 21st-century Leadership

Require? 13 How do Leaders Learn? 14 Levels of Leadership Maturity

4 You and Your Development

15 Taking Stock and Self-Rating 16 Clarifying your Goals and Intended

Outcomes

5 Developing and Using the Five Qualities

17 Overview of the Five Qualities Framework 18 The Tenacious Implementer Quality 19 The Measured Connector Quality 20 The Visionary Motivator Quality 21 The Thoughtful Architect Quality 22 The Edgy Catalyser Quality 23 Becoming Masterful

6 Leadership and Organizations

24 Defining Leadership Culture 25 Changing Leadership Culture 26 The Implications of Millennial Leadership