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Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference

By Susan R. Komives, Nance Lucas, Timothy R. McMahon; February 1998

Exploring Leadership
fills a gap in the literature on leadership, providing a carefully crafted student guide structured to the needs of leadership training courses for students. It helps students assess their own potential for leadership, gives them a concise grounding in major leadership concepts and theories and takes them through a contemporary leadership approach that equips them for the challenges of providing leadership in groups, communities and organizations.  

Advising Student Groups and Organizations

By Norbert W. Dunkel, John H. Schuh; November 1997

Student organization advisors play an increasingly important role on campus. Advising Student Groups and Organizations provides the knowledge base and skills advisors need to improve their effectiveness. From the rewards and challenges of advising student groups to the specific knowledge, skills and qualities advisors need on a daily basis, this comprehensive overview offers advisors both theoretical and practical guidelines. Readers will learn to motivate leaders, provide academic and career assistance, tackle budget and accounting issues and more. 

The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator’s Guide to Meetings

By Janis Fisher Chan; March 2003  

Newly appointed academic managers are expected to conduct and lead a wide variety of meetings. Often, however, these managers lack the skills needed to lead meetings that get meaningful results. The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Meetings is specifically designed to help managers understand how to conduct successful meetings that accomplish specific objectives as efficiently as possible. This helpful resource includes practical guidelines and information that can be put into place immediately to help ensure that meetings run effectively.

 

The Leadership Challenge

By James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner; August 2002

When it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted that The Leadership Challenge would become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, faced with the new challenges of our unpredictable global business environment, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner--two of the country's premier leadership experts--have completely revised and updated their classic book. Building on the knowledge base of their previous books, the third edition of The Leadership Challenge is grounded in extensive research and based on interviews with all kinds of leaders at all levels in public and private organizations from around the world. In this edition, the authors emphasize that the fundamentals of leadership are the same today as they were in the 1980s and as they've probably been for centuries. In that sense, nothing's new. Leadership is not a fad. While the content of leadership has not changed, the context has and, in some cases, dramatically.

 

The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development

By Cynthia D. McCauley (Editor), Russ S. Moxley (Editor), Ellen Van Velsor (Editor); July 1998

The Center for Creative Leadership is the world's largest institution devoted to leadership research and education. Now, in one comprehensive volume, it offers a thorough explanation of the elements of leadership development.

Get valuable information on:

  • Implementing feedback-intensive programs
  • Evaluating the impact of leadership development programs
  • Dealing with cross-cultural and diversity issues in leadership development . . . and much more!

 

Team-Based Fundraising Step by Step: A Practical Guide to Improving Results Through Teamwork

By Mim Carlson, Cheryl A. Clarke; March 2000

In this insightful resource, leading fundraiser Mim Carlson presents a practical approach to involving the entire organization in fundraising. In doing so, she helps board members, executive directors and development directors turn their staff and volunteers into a cohesive team with clearly defined goals, specific roles, joint accountability, diverse talents and skills as well as strong leadership.  In Team-Based Fundraising Step by Step, Carlson draws on popular team-building theory and successful techniques--as well as on her years of fundraising experience--to offer a fresh framework for helping teams become more unified in their fund development activities. She argues that individuals who act alone cannot make the most of fundraising strategies and instead advises readers to include the board of directors, the executive director, staff and other volunteers in strategic planning and development. This practical step-by-step guide shows readers how to develop and implement a whole-organization approach. Providing both a rationale for this novel approach and illustrations of how it has produced successful results Carlson offers important tools for effective collaboration in:

  • Detailed implementation strategies

  • Sample forms

  • Checklists

  • Worksheets

  • Summaries of roles and responsibilities

 

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Team Building

 

By Arthur R. Pell; 1999

 

You’re no idiot, of course.  You know that workteams have become America’s most popular way of doing business.  You also know that a good team can empower its members to do what each does best, which will save time and vastly increase profits, not to mention make your company a serious player in today’s competitive business world.  But when it comes to actually creating and managing viable work teams, you feel like you’re alone in a lifeboat.  Don’t abandon ship just yet!  This book cuts through the managerial mumbo-jumbo to give you a step-by-step plan for putting powerful workteams together.

 

 

Leadership for Dummies

 

By Marshall Loeb, Stephen Kindel; 1999

 

Think you’ve got what it takes to be a leader?  Some mover-and-shaker types seem to be “natural leaders.”  But that’s exactly what they want you to think.  The truth is, leaders are made, not born.  So if you want practical strategies and surefire tips for developing your own leadership style, this book was made for you!  Discover how to:

·         Build (and flex) your leadership muscles

·         See opportunity amid change and crisis

·         Lead with communication, encouragement, and promotion

·         Assemble and maintain a top-notch team

·         Recognize the ten telltale behaviors of true leaders

 

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