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

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!

--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

"The best leaders are constantly learning. They see all experiences as learning experiences. But there’s a catch. Unexamined experiences don’t produce rich insights that come from reflection and analysis."

—from the Introduction

Based on Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner’s classic book The Leadership Challenge, this Workbookwill be a hands-on guide for improving your ability to put into action the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership model and become a leader who Models the Way, Inspires a Shared Vision, Challenges the Process, Enables Others to Act, and Encourages the Heart.

The Workbook’s easy-to-use worksheets make efficient planning simple and practical and supports your success in three ways:

• Reflection: Think about your approach to leadership and become more conscious about how well you engage in each of the Practices.
• Application: Apply the Practices and commitments to all your projects.
• Implications: Record what you’ve learned about yourself, your team, your organization, and your project.

Develop your leadership potential with The Leadership Challenge Workbook!

Selecting Your Personal-Best Project.

Challenging the Process.

Inspiring a Shared Vision`.

Enabling Others to Act.

Modeling the Way.

Encouraging the Heart.

Designing Your Personal-Best Project Plan.

Reflecting on Your Personal-Best Project.