Leadership is Everyone's Business

Backed by over 20 years of original research, The Leadership Challenge Workshop is a unique and intense discovery process created by best-selling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. The Workshop demystifies the concept of leadership and approaches it as a learnable set of behaviors. In other words, forget about job titles, forget about position or rank or work experience. Leadership is about what you do.

In this non-manager version of the Participant Workbook, Kouzes and Posner introduce individual contributors to The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The one-day program is about how the "leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others." The authors' goal is to "liberate the leader in everyone" with this inspiring, results-oriented Workshop.

Preface v

Orienteering 1

Practice 1. Model the Way 23

Practice 2. Inspire a Shared Vision 37

Practice 3. Challenge the Process 51

Practice 4. Enable Others to Act 61

Practice 5. Encourage the Heart 71

Committing 85

Appendix 91

Suggestions for Becoming a Better Leader 92

The Journey Continues: Ten Ways to Keep Your Leadership Development Alive 95

About the Authors 99

Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner are authors of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge. Jim is an Executive Fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University and Chairman Emeritus of the Tom Peters Company. Barry is Dean of the Leavey School of Business and Professor of Leadership at Santa Clara University (Silicon Valley, California). Jim and Barry are also authors of Credibility, Encouraging the Heart, The Leadership Challenge® Workshop, The Leadership Challenge Workbook, and The Leadership Journal. Their 360-degree leadership assessment instrument, The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) and LPI Online (www.lpionline.com) has helped develop the leadership skills of nearly 1 million people worldwide. Combined, these offering truly make them the most trusted sources on becoming a better leader.