Description
Leadership matters. It makes a difference to the way your organisation performs and the way it is perceived by employees and outsiders alike.
The UK's leading leadership guru has distilled a lifetime's work to help you develop leadership within your organisation from board level right down to team leaders.
For the first time he tackles the issue of whether his ideas, which began life in a military environment in the 1960s, can be transferred to the modern workplace. With case studies from Mitsubishi, The University of Surrey Engineering Department and a not-for-profit foreign development programme operating in Armenia, Adiar comprehensively shows that his methods can be applied in any organisation, in any culture.
Contents
PART I
Why Leadership Development Matters
The Nature of Leadership
How Leadership Development Works
PART II: THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
A Strategy for Leadership Development
Selection
Training for Leadership
A Career Development Policy
Line Managers as Leadership Mentors
Self-development
Strategic Leadership
Part III: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE
ICI
Mitsubishi
Armenian Leadership Development Forum
Surrey University Engineering Department
Armed Forces
Evaluating ACL Training
A Brief Look at the Evaluation of Leadership Development Training
Conclusion
Authors
John Adair
John Adair is an internationally recognised writer, teacher and adviser on leadership. His clients have included such organisation as ICI - the first British company to make a billion pounds profit - Exxon Chemicals in the United States, Mitsubishi, Lehman Brothers, BAE Systems, British Airways, the Church of England, the Department of Education and many other organisations in both the private and public sectors. His 30 books, such as Effective Leadership and Not Bosses But Leaders, have been translated into 18 different languages.