Leadership Challenge Part 4: Challenge the Process

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Leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women, it is a process that ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others. If you are a leader, or aspire to be one, this series of courses will assist you in developing your capacity to guide others to places they have never been before. The series covers the five practices of exemplary leadership - model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, and encourage the heart.

This 2-hour interactive online course is the fourth in the series and covers the third of the five practices of exemplary leadership, "Challenge the Process". It shows you how leaders understand that change is a constant, and proactive individuals seize the moment, and use times of change to create something better than previously thought possible. This course reminds you to look at all sorts of outside resources for inspiration, since new ideas are essential to success. The notion that failure is an element of success is also discussed, and you will be encouraged to create a workplace that embraces risk and experimentation.

This course series is adopted from the highly respected book, The Leadership Challenge, written by James Kouzes and Barry Posner. This is the third edition of this book, which is grounded in extensive research and uses interviews with all kinds of leaders from both public and private organizations.

Objectives SME Course Applies to

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Explain the importance of innovation and viewing change as a personal challenge.
List the benefits of being proactive, and questioning the status quo.
Assess your own workplace to determine the overall attitude and willingness to experiment.
Describe the benefits of incremental steps and small wins.
Illustrate that promoting learning requires building in a tolerance for error and a framework for forgiveness.
Assess your own psychological hardiness and foster hardiness in your constituents.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: James Kouzes and Barry Posner

Jim Kouzes is chairman emeritus of the Tom Peters Company, a professional services firm which specializes in leadership development. He's also an executive fellow in the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

Barry Posner is Dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, located in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Jim and Barry co-authored The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations, which is now in its third edition (2002) with over one million copies in print. The Leadership Challenge, available in eleven languages, has been a selection of the Macmillan Executive Book Club and the Fortune Book Club. It's the winner of the 1989 James A. Hamilton Hospital Administrators' Book, the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, and was a BusinessWeek bestseller in 2001. Jim and Barry have also co-authored Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, which was chosen by Industry Week as one of the ten best management books of 1993. Encouraging the Heart and The Leadership Challenge Planner were released in 1999. Based on solid research involving over 70,000 surveys, 1,000 written case studies, and 100 in-depth interviews, these books describe the leadership principles and practices that generate high performance in individuals and organizations.

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