Title: Back to Basics
Media: Book
Author: ADL Associates
In this book, many of the consultants, trainers, presenters, and coaches
who constitute ADL Associates share brief and focused ideas for implementing
a "Back to Basics" strategy. Their ideas represent hundreds of years
of combined experience with countless organizations in every conceivable
line of business and service.
Title: Be Prepared
to Lead
Media: Video
Author: Toastmasters International Communications Series
Recognize your own leadership style. Adapt your leadership style to
your workforce, to the business problem, and to the time available.
Recognize and develop the traits of a leader. Build vision and communication
skills. Earn the trust of your team members. Prepare for the day when
you're called to lead. The leader in you can be ready to step
forward and meet the challenge.
Title: Getting It Done
Media: Book
Author: Fisher, Roger & Alan Sharp
Learn how to best help a group formulate a clear vision of the results
they want, suggest a course of action that you can all implement,
and learn from past experiences.
Learn how to ask questions effectively, offer ideas that will be heard,
and influence the actions through your own behavior. Learn how
to achieve the ultimate goal-successful collaboration:
Diagnose: identify the causes of a problem in order to solve it
Prescribe: create an approach that deals effectively with differences
Lead: engage others to implement the plan
Title: Hard Wired Leadership
Media: Book
Author: Pearman, Roger R.
"Unleashing the Power of Personality to Become a New Millennium
Leader"
Chapters include:
Leadership Reconsidered: Becoming a New
Millennium Leader
Mental Processes and Habit of Mind: Building
Blocks of Leadership Psychology
Hardwired Communication: A Boost for
Leadership Effectiveness
Hardwired Problem Management: The Real
Work of Leadership
Hardwired Blind Spots: Inevitable Leadership
Mistakes
Hardwired Team Building: Leadership Excellence
Title: High-Impact Leadership
Media: Audio
Author: Sanborn, Mark
"How to move beyond manager to respected leader"
Learn what motivates leaders, and how they project personal power to
achieve their goals. Explore courage and creativity, and ways to use
them to move naturally to the leadership position you want.
Title: How to Get Results
with People (2 copies)
Media: Audio
Author: Salzman, Jeff
Get people to be receptive, even enthusiastic, about new ideas
Develop strong, committed relationships you
can count on
Increase your impact and enhance your reputation
in your organization
Handle difficult people and tough situations
Turn resistance into support (this one principle
alone will dramatically improve your results with people)
Use the principles of leadership to get top
performance from your people
Title: Leadershift
Media: CD-Rom
Author: Barker, Joel
Using the metaphor of bridge building, learn how the 21st century leader
will build bridges built of hope and ideas and opportunities that help
us move from where we are to where we need to be.
Explore the 5 lessons for the 21st Century leader:
1. Focus the majority of your efforts on the future
2. Understand the nature of fundamental change
3. Appreciate complex systems and how they work
4. Examine your leadership style to see how it affects
productivity
5. Create shared vision to build bridges to the future
Title: Leadershift
Media: Video
Author: Barker, Joel
Using the metaphor of bridge building, learn how the 21st century leader
will build bridges built of hope and ideas and opportunities that help
us move from where we are to where we need to be.
Title: Leadership ER
Media: Book
Author: Krempl, Stephen F.
Leadership ER is a compelling business book that gets to the heart of
the matter. It reads like a novel and uses a powerful medical metaphor
to share valuable insights on how to achieve and maintain personal health,
business health and the critical balance between the two. Read Leadership
ER and give yourself and your team a checkup. The powerful personal and
business questions will challenge your thinking, encourage reflection
and move you to action. Leadership ER will provide you with the framework
for developing your own prescription for personal and professional health
and vitality.
Title: Leadership and
the New Science
Media: Book
Author: Wheatley, Margaret J.
See how "new science" provides equally powerful insights for
transforming how we organize work, people and life. This book
offers:
New light on issues that trouble people in organizations most: order
and change, autonomy and control, structure and flexibility, planning
and innovation.
An easy-to-read, single-source summary of a wide range of new science
discoveries.
Inspiration and guidance to begin your own journey in using new science
ideas to forever change your understanding of leadership, organizations,
and life.
Title: Leadership and
the One-Minute Manager
Media: Book
Author: Blanchard, Kenneth Ph.D. & Drea Zigarmi Ed.D.
& Patricia Zigarmi Ed.D.
"Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership"
Thinking Differently About Leadership
Leadership Style: Perceptions of Others
Diagnosing Development Level
Situational Leadership
Developing Competence and Commitment
Turning Around Performance Problems
Sharing What You're Doing
Positive Assumptions About People
Becoming a Situational Leader
Title: Leadership Engine,
The (2 copies)
Media: Booklet
Author: Tichy, Noel M.
"Building Leaders at Every Level"
Leadership and change are inseparable
Leaders have a personal responsibility to develop other leaders
Success depends upon leaders at every level of the organization facing
reality and doing what works
Learn how to personally meet the growing leadership needs of your organization.
Make leadership local. Play a part in the migration of leadership ability
that exists within your working environment.
Title: Love and Profit:
The Art of Caring Leadership
Media: Audio
Author: Autry, James A.
Divided into 5 sections
Part 1 Work and Life: Business and Relationships
Part 2 Changing the Words: Changing the Work
Part 3 Managing and Feeling
Part 4 The Community of Work
Part 5 Random Observations After 28 years of Managing
Title: Love and Profit:
The Art of Caring Leadership
Media: Book
Author: Autry, James A.
Divided into 5 sections
Part 1 Work and Life: Business and Relationships
Part 2 Changing the Words: Changing the Work
Part 3 Managing and Feeling
Part 4 The Community of Work
Part 5 Random Observations After 28 years of Managing
Title: Love and Profit:
The Art of Caring Leadership
Media: Video
Author: Autry, James A.
Divided into 5 sections
Part 1 Work and Life: Business and Relationships
Part 2 Changing the Words: Changing the Work
Part 3 Managing and Feeling
Part 4 The Community of Work
Part 5 Random Observations After 28 years of Managing
Title: Monday Morning
Leadership - 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to
Media: Book
Author: David Cottrell
Read a story that can help your career! Everyone likes a good
story, especially if there are lessons that can be immediately applied
to life. This book is one of those stories - about a manager and
his mentor. Monday Morning Leadership offers unique encouragement
and direction that will help you become a better manager, employee,
and person. This book covers 8 Mentoring Sessions, including Divers
and Passengers, Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing, Escape from Management
Land, The "Do Right" Rule, Hire Tough, Do Less or Work Faster,
Buckets and Dippers, Enter the Learning Zone.
Title: Principle-Centered
Leadership
Media: Audio
Author: Covey, Stephen R.
Find the answers to questions like:
How do we as individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous
change?
Why are efforts to improve falling so short in real results despite
the millions of dollars in time, capital, and human effort being spent
on them?
How do we unleash the creativity, talent, and energy within others and
ourselves in the midst of pressure?
Is it realistic to believe that balance among personal, family, and
professional life is possible?
Find the insights and guidelines to help apply principals both at work
and at home, leading to a more balanced, rewarding, and effective life.
Title: Reach for the Stars
Media: Booklet
Author: Coastal Human Resources
Defining Leadership
Building a Bridge to the Stars: What Makes a Leader
Leadership Characteristics
Maintaining Leadership
Management or Leadership: Which Comes First?
Making It Happen
Leadership Scenarios
Title: Why Leaders Can't
Lead
Media: Book
Author: Bennis, Warren
This book is an analysis of the problems facing anyone who tries to
take charge or an organization--of any kind--and effect change.
It offers those engaged in the day-to-day tasks of leadership specific
suggestions--not only on how to counter the turmoil and inertia that
threaten the best-laid plans, but also on how to keep routine from sapping
their ability to make a real impact. Learn how leaders can effectively
take charge and overcome the forces working against them.
