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Comprehensive Guidebook Set
Center for Creative Leadership, Jan 2010
Guidebooks are perfect references and development tools for employees and managers at all levels. In a format that is quick and easy to read, these books provide practical advice on coaching, feedback, teams, conflict, innovation, career success, resiliency, and more.
You'll find this valuable series to be beneficial throughout all levels of your organization. The ready reference format makes this a wonderful addition to your personal developmental tool box.
The authors have updated this package to contain 46 guidebooks now - including their most recent guidebook - Return on Experience: Learning Leadership at Work. Geared toward the practicing manager, this series contains proven, practical actions for carrying out a specific developmental task or solving a specific leadership problem.
You will receive:
Active Listening: Improve Your Ability to Listen and Lead
- Listening well is an essential component of good leadership.
Adaptability: Responding Effectively to Change
- Learn how to practice cognitive, emotional, and dispositional flexibility and become more effective for yourself, your people, and your organization.
Becoming a More Versatile Learner
- Work experience contains valuable lessons for managers who broaden their approach to learning.
Building an Authentic Leadership Image
- Your image can be either an asset or a liability for you as a leader.
Building Resiliency: How to Thrive in Times of Change
- You can increase your ability to handle the unknown.
Building Your Team's Morale, Pride, and Spirit
- The results include cooperation and loyalty, enhanced productivity and efficiency, and tangible economic and relational outcomes—and the leader is the key to success.
Communicating Across Cultures
- A global economy demands that managers develop skills for communicating across cultural boundaries.
Communicating Your Vision
- One part of your job as a leader is to create commitment to your organization's vision. In order to do this, you have to communicate the vision effectively.
Critical Reflections: How Groups Can Learn from Success and Failure
- Certain key events have the potential to teach lasting lessons. You can use the Critical Reflections process to help your group learn these lessons
Developing Cultural Adaptability: How to Work Across Differences
- Effective leaders can work with people different from themselves, whether these people work on the next floor or on the other side of the world.
Developing Your Intuition: A Guide to Reflective Practice
- As a leader, you have to depend on your intuition as well as the evidence of the moment to reach decisions quickly. How can you learn to trust your gut?
Do You Really Need a Team?
- Teams aren't always the best way to meet a business challenge. Before you launch a team, consider whether or not you need a team to get results.
Feedback That Works: How to Build and Deliver Your Message
- Giving meaningful and effective feedback is an important component to helping other people develop skills, improve performance, and get results. So why don't more managers do it?
Finding Your Balance
- Balance is about more than how you spend your time—it's about connecting your behaviour to what you believe is really important.
Giving Feedback to Subordinates
- Managers should give feedback to their direct reports, but often they don't. They're missing out on one of the most powerful tools for improving performance.
How to Form a Team: Five Keys to High Performance
- Team success doesn't start with results. It starts with the building of an effective team that can deliver on its promise.
How to Launch a Team: Start Right for Success
- Congratulations—you've built a dream team. But can you get it started on the right path?
Influence: Gaining Commitment, Getting Results 2nd Edition
- Your leadership position isn't always enough to motivate people to do what you ask. So how can you get the results your organization expects?
Keeping Your Career on Track: Twenty Success Strategies
- Building a successful career isn't a one-time job. To stay on track you need to get results by managing people, change, and teams.
Leadership Coaching: When It's Right and When You're Ready
- Can a leadership coach deliver improved managerial effectiveness for individual leaders and entire organizations? Yes—if it's the right coach.
Leadership Networking: Connect, Collaborate, Create
- Leadership networking is not about collecting business cards or schmoozing. It's about building relationships and making alliances in service of others and in service of your organization's work and goals.
Leading Dispersed Teams
- What does it take to lead a team of people separated by time and distance, who rarely meet face to face?
Learning from Life: Turning Life's Lessons into Leadership Experience
- Too many managers and executives discount what experiences outside of work can teach them about leadership. Look to personal and community experiences for developmental opportunities
Maintaining Team Performance
- Between the time a team is launched and the time it delivers results, managers need to know that it's on course. Here's how.
Making Creativity Practical: Innovation That Gets Results
- By channelling parts of the creative process, organizational leaders can effectively align this powerful problem-solving tool with their organization's current challenges.
Managing Conflict with Direct Reports
- Conflict is inevitable when people work together, and it's one of the most difficult challenges facing managers. But it's a challenge that successful leaders learn to address.
Managing Conflict with Peers
- Conflict happens. When it happens to peers, it can be difficult to resolve.
Managing Conflict with Your Boss
- Conflict between managers and their bosses is inevitable, but a negative outcome isn't. Learn to handle conflict successfully and the organization will benefit.
Managing Leadership Stress
- Everyone experiences stress, and leaders face the additional stress brought about by the unique demands of leadership.
Ongoing Feedback: How to Get It, How to Use It
- You know you need feedback to develop, but do you know how to get it and how to use it?
Preparing for Development: Making the Most of Formal Leadership Programs
- Whether your organization pays for your leadership development opportunities or you pay the bill yourself, careful preparation can reap big benefits from any formal program.
Raising Sensitive Issues in a Team
- Many things have potential to become sensitive issues in team situation—but how do you determine whether to raise such an issue in a team meeting?
Reaching Your Development Goals
- To reach your goals, develop skills by immediately acting on the feedback you get from peers, direct reports, and your boss
Selling Your Ideas to Your Organization
- If you've got an idea you want to sell, you need to do two things: scan your environment and use effective tactics.
Selling Yourself without Selling Out: A Leader's Guide to Ethical Self-Promotion
- You can learn effective methods of self-promotion while maintaining your integrity and authenticity.
Setting Priorities: Personal Values, Organizational Results
- Successful leaders get results. To get results, you need to set priorities.
Setting Your Development Goals: Start with Your Values
- Many managers set goals, but few of them reach goals that promise real and positive changes in the way they lead others.
Social Identity: Knowing Yourself, Leading Others
- The people you lead are likely to be different from you and from each other in significant ways. Leaders today need an awareness of social identity, their own and that of others.
Three Keys to Development: Defining and Meeting Your Leadership Challenges.
- Leadership doesn't always come naturally and it's unlikely to be born in response to a single dramatic moment. The capacity to lead is developed over a lifetime of experience.
Using Your Executive Coach
- You need to understand how to get the most from your work with a professional coach.
Creating a Vision
- To be an effective leader - at all levels – you need to pay attention to vision. Creating a Vision provides the 5 compelling vision elements and the 5 vision articulation factors that will reveal a powerful image of how good your organization is and how skilled you are as a leader.
Seven Keys to Successful Mentoring
- Both mentors and mentees realize many benefits from mentoring, as do organizations that encourage, structure, and support mentoring. Effective mentors develop the leadership capacity of their mentees while increasing their own skills. They transfer their knowledge and expertise back into their organizations. They nurture the alignment between employee aspirations and organizational imperatives, and they create depth and loyalty within their organizations. Leaders who take mentoring seriously and handle it effectively have a profound impact.
Responses to Change
- The ongoing state of many organizations is one of change. People who experience major change tend to exhibit one of four patterns of response: entrenched, overwhelmed, poser, or learner. The people in each group need different kinds of help in order to make the transition. This guidebook will help you understand how people, including yourself, are responding to change and what you can do to help them move forward.
Leadership Wisdom
- In a fast-paced global economy emphasizing innovation and productivity, leaders need to bring as much wisdom as possible to bear on their daily decisions. They often find themselves pulled between making decisions quickly and making them well. The processes described in this guidebook, inquiry and reflection, can help you develop your capacity to make wise choices. You will begin to see a broad range of possible responses and wisely choose the ones that will work best.
Changing Yourself and Your Reputation
- This book offers help in making changes—and in getting people to notice them. It’s hard work deciding to change and then making the change happen. But what if you’re doing all that work and making significant changes—and no one notices? It can be very discouraging! But take heart! This book shows you how to move on with the follow-through: getting people to notice that you are changing.
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