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

From the legAndary authors of The Leadership Challenge comes this practical implementation tool you'll use to plan your next major project!

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!

Praise for other Kouzes and Posner resources:"I found myself constantly nodding and saying to myself, 'That's right! That's how it's done! That's what it feels like!' [Kouzes and Posner] capture the essence of what I've found is at the heart of transforming leadership."

--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

JAMES M. KOUZES is chairman of the Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems, which makes leadership work through practical, performance-oriented learning programs, including the Leadership Challenge Workshop and Leadership Is Everyone's Business. In 1993 the Wall Street Journal cited him as one of the twelve most requested "nonuniversity executive-education providers" to U.S. companies. 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 is 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-Silicon Valley and for the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits.