Synopses & Reviews
THE MOST TRUSTED SOURCE ON BECOMING A BETTER LEADER
"The Student Leadership Practices Inventory is the best tool I have used to help students assess their leadership effectiveness because it translates the concept of leadership into actions and relationships. By defining and measuring specific leadership behaviors, the Student LPI allows students to see how they are doing as leaders and to determine how they can improve."
Cathy Early, director of leadership education, National Interfraternity Conference
THE STUDENT LEADERSHIP PRACTICES INVENTORY (Student LPI) is the only leadership tool designed specifically for students and young people. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the second edition of this celebrated leadership development program approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360? leadership assessment tool helps students and young people measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner's acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership® model to real-life challenges.
This easy-to-use instrument package includes everything you need to obtain and deliver complete 360? feedback for your student participants:
- Facilitator's Guide
- Self Instrument
- Observer Instrument
- Student Workbook
- Student Leadership Planner
- CD-ROM (includes Scoring Software and PowerPoint® presentations for classroom)
- The Five Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership article
The newly revised Student LPI offers in-depth, precise results. The Scoring Software produces a detailed Feedback Report for each participant and has the capability to save data for comparing scores over multiple administrations. Designed to be user-friendly, the updated Student Workbook quickly takes students to the heart and soul of their Feedback Report. And the new Student Leadership Planner was created to extend the Student LPI experience.
Give your students the skills to master The Five Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership®:
- Model the Way
- Inspire a Shared Vision
- Challenge the Process
- Enable Others to Act
- Encourage the Heart
Students can learn to be effective leaders if they are given the right feedback and tools. Help students and young people to discover their leadership potential with the Student LPI!
Review
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The Student Leadership Practices Inventoryis the best tool I have used to help students assess their leadership effectiveness because it translates the concept of leadership into actions and relationships. By defining and measuring specific leadership behaviors, the
Student LPIallows students to see how they are doing as leaders and to determine how they can improve.\"
--Cathy Early, director of leadership education, National Interfraternity Conference '
Review
"The Student Leadership Practices Inventory is the best tool I have used to help students assess their leadership effectiveness because it translates the concept of leadership into actions and relationships. By defining and measuring specific leadership behaviors, the Student LPI allows students to not only see how they are doing as leaders but determine how they can improve." —Cathy Early, director of leadership education, National Interfraternity Conference
"Kouzes and Posner have developed the most effective instrument around for assessing leadership skills, and they provide a complete curriculum following the assessment designed to increase students' abilities to reach their full potential as leaders. The feedback from students was so powerful that Kouzes and Posner's leadership practices have been integrated into our comprehensive leadership program." —Kay Bales, Director of Leadership and Service Programs, Ball State University
Synopsis
This four-piece instrument package assesses leadership skills and potential in five key practice areas, based on the five essential practices of effective leadership in the authors' best-selling Leadership Challenge. This instrument can be used by students alone or as part of a course or workshop. Both the student manual and facilitator's guide are rich in and strategies for building leadership abilities suited to today's diverse organizational environments.
Synopsis
THE STUDENT LEADERSHIP PRACTICES INVENTORY (Student LPI)is the only leadership tool designed specifically for students and young people. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the second edition of this celebrated instrument package approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360° leadership assessment tool helps students and young people measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner’s acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership® model to real-life challenges.
Synopsis
This unique leadership development program is for the young adult who aspires to be an exemplary leader. From the college classroom to the local youth club, the
Student Leadership Practices Inventory has helped thousands of young people assess their leadership potential and improve their skills. Drawing from years of impeccable research and real-world experience, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have developed four practical resources that can be used alone or in a workshop setting: the
Self, the
Observer, the
Student Workbook, and the
Facilitator's Guide.
Both the Self and Observer are questionnaires for the student leader and the person who has observed the student in action. Each survey features thirty statements based on five important leadership practices: Challenging the Process, Inspiring a Shared Vision, Enabling Others to Act, Modeling the Way, and Encouraging the Heart. To score their results, participants will find in the Student Workbook grids for recording scores, charts for interpreting scores, and worksheets for summarizing and planning action steps.
For those who need guidance in designing and conducting a student leadership program, there is the Facilitator's Guide. In addition to detailed instructions and examples, workshop leaders will find masters for overhead transparencies and handouts, checklists for meeting the leadership challenge, normative data on different types of student leaders, and instructions for obtaining computerized scoring software.
Synopsis
Make Leadership Learnable and Teachable--For Students and Young People
"The Student LPI was simple to use, to score, to understand--it made sense and gave me a handle for figuring out what leadership is all about."
"Made me realize that I am leader--and helped me figure out how to be a better one at that."
"I really liked that it was focused on students, rather than business people and executives. I could relate to what it was asking and telling me to do."
"I learned that leadership isn't about telling people what to do, but rather coming together to achieve a common goal.
"These are just a few of the things students have to say about their experiences with the Student Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)--a new version of Kouzes and Posner's exceptional tool for developing extraordinary leaders--now tailored to the specific needs of students and young people!The four-instrument package assesses leadership skills and potential in five key areas, based on the five essential practices:- Challenging the Process- Inspiring a Shared Vision- Enabling Others to Act- Modeling the Way- Encouraging the HeartThe Facilitator's Guide is rich in examples and strategies for building leadership abilities suited to today's diverse organizational environments. Used in conjunction with the Self Instrument, Observer Instrument, and Student Workbook, it will give you the tools you need to start students on the road to discovering their leadership potential and embarking on a lifetime of leadership.The Student LPI has been tested, refined, and proven valid in research. It is short, simple, and can be self-scored. It can be used with students or young adults in academic and non-academic settings, by students alone, or as part of a course or workshop.
About the Author
JAMES M. KOUZES is chairman of TPG/Learning Systems, which makes leadership work through practical, performance-oriented learning programs. In 1993, The Wall Street Journal cited Jim as one of the twelve most requested "nonuniversity executive-education providers to U.S. companies. Past and present clients include AT&T, Boeing, Boy Scouts of America, Charles Schwab, Ciba-Geigy, Dell Computer, First Bank System, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss & Co., Motorola, Pacific Bell, Stanford University, Xerox Corporation, and the YMCA. BARRY Z. POSNER, Ph.D, is dean of the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, and professor of organizational behavior. He has received several outstanding teaching and leadership awards, has published more than eighty research and practitioner-oriented articles, and currently serves on the editorial review boards for The Journal of Management Education, The Journal of Management Inquiry, and The Journal of Business Ethics. He also serves on the board of directors for Public Allies and for The Center for Excellence in Nonprofits.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Origin of the Student Leadership Practices Inventory.
Chapter 3: The Five Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership.
Chapter 4: Preparing for the Student LPIFeedback Workshop.
Chapter 5: Workshop Process Details.
Chapter 6: Design and Follow-Up Options.
Recommended Reading.
Appendix A: Recalling a Personal-Best Leadership Experience.
Appendix B: Masters for Visuals and Handouts.
Appendix C: Checklists of Actions for Meeting the Leadership Challenge.
Appendix D: Comparative Data for the Student LPI.
Appendix E: Scoring Software Instructions.
About the Authors.