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The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools
This extraordinary resource includes the most successful leadership development tools selected from three decades of the Pfeiffer Annuals and Handbooks. Since 1972, trainers and consultants have found these volumes to contain a treasure chest of resources for a wide range of training and organization-development needs.
The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools is organized into three sections: Presentations and Discussions (articles); Experiential Learning Activities; and Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys. These selections represent the all-time best the Pfeiffer Annuals and Handbooks have to offer on the topic. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools:
- Includes an overview of management theorists who have shaped modern thought about organizations and leadership
Contains complete, ready-made training exercises designed to meet a variety of needs for different audiences
Offers inventories that include questionnaires and instruments that help people clarify their own beliefs about leadership
The materials covered are selected not only for quality but with an eye toward serving a broad range of objectives and training situations. This resource is written to help develop leadership skills, from first-level supervisors to high-level executives. The activities and instruments can be customized for all levels of the management hierarchy.
The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools offers the resources you need to help build better organizations for working people everywhere.
Synopsis
An anthology of leadership development resources, comprising experiential learning activities; instruments, surveys and questionnaires; and presentation and discussion resources drawn from more than thirty years of Pfeiffer Annuals.
Synopsis
The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools is organized into three sections: Presentations and Discussions (articles); Experiential Learning Activities; and Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys. These selections represent the all-time best the Pfeiffer Annuals and Handbooks have to offer on the topic. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools
- Includes an overview of management theorists who have shaped modern thought about organizations and leadership
- Contains complete, ready-made training exercises designed to meet a variety of needs for different audiences
- Offers inventories that include questionnaires and instruments that help people clarify their own beliefs about leadership
Synopsis
The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools is organized into three sections: Presentations and Discussions (articles); Experiential Learning Activities; and Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys. These selections represent the all-time best the
Pfeiffer Annuals and
Handbooks have to offer on the topic.
The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools· Includes an overview of management theorists who have shaped modern thought about organizations and leadership
· Contains complete, ready-made training exercises designed to meet a variety of needs for different audiences
· Offers inventories that include questionnaires and instruments that help people clarify their own beliefs about leadership
About the Author
Jack Gordon is a former chief editor of Training Magazine and an award-winning writer. He is the editor of numerous books, including The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Conflict Management Tools and The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Communication Skill-Building Tools.
Table of Contents
How to Use This Resource.
About the Editor.
Introduction.
PART 1: PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION RESOURCES.
1. Leadership Is in the Eye of the Follower (James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner).
2. Leadership as Persuasion and Adaptation (Julia T. Wood).
3. Leadership from the Gestalt Perspective (H.B. Karp).
4. An Overview of Ten Management and Organizational Theorists (Marshall Sashkin).
5. McGregor’s Theory X-Theory Y Model (Albert J. Robinson).
6. Impact at Ground Zero: Where Theory Meets Practice (Patrick Doyle and C.R. Tindal).
7. A Model for the Executive Management of Transformational Change (Richard Beckhard).
8. Visionary’s Disease and the CEO (George M. Smart, Jr.).
PART 2: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES.
1. Choose Me: Developing Power Within a Group (Larry Porter).
2. Successful Leadership Traits: Reaching Consensus (Robert Alan Black).
3. Motivation: A Feedback Activity (Donald F. Michalak).
4. Management Skills: Assessing Personal Performance (Carol J. Levin).
5. Leadership History: Searching the Past for Insight (Frank A. Prince).
6. Management Perspectives: Identifying Styles (Patrick Doyle).
7. MACE: Demonstrating Factors that Affect Performance (Stephen Dakin and Russell Robb).
8. Organizational Structures: A Simulation (Rudi E. Weber).
9. There’s Never Time to Do It Right: A Relay Task (Russell J. Denz).
10. The Flip-It Company: Exploring the Impact of Work Quotas (James L. Costigan).
11. The Robotics Decision: Solving Strategic Problems (Charles H. Smith)
12. Reviewing Objectives and Strategies: A Planning Task for Managers (Cyril R. Mill).
13. Feedback Awareness: Skill Building for Supervisors (Robert William Lucas).
14. Delegation: Using Time and Resources Effectively (Michael N. O’Malley and Catherine M.T. Lombardozzi).
15. Constructive Discipline: Following Organizational Guidelines (Allen J. Schuh).
16. Vice President’s In-Basket: A Management Activity (Annette N. Shelby).
17. Under Pressure: Managing Time Effectively (Glenn H. Varney).
18. Interviewing: Gathering Pertinent Information (Kenneth L. Murrell).
19. Meeting Management: Coping with Dysfunctional Behaviors (Patrick Doyle and C.R. Tindal).
PART 3: INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES, AND SURVEYS.
1. Strategic Leadership Styles Instrument (Gaylord Reagan).
2. The Supervisory and Leadership Beliefs Questionnaire (T. Venkateswara Rao).
3. Motivational Analysis of Organizations—Behavior (MAO-B) (Udai Pareek).
4. Motivational Analysis of Organizations—Climate (MAO-C) (Udai Pareek).
5. Managerial Work-Values Scale (T. Venkateswara Rao).
6. Patterns of Effective Supervisory Behavior (Henry P. Sims, Jr.).
7. The Leadership Dimensions Survey (Gerald V. Miller).