The Leadership Challenge: Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner

Benchmark for Business are delighted to present their latest conference The Leadership Challenge featuring renowned authors and speakers Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner.Jim and Barry have co-authored more than a dozen other leadership books including A Leaders Legacy Credibility: How Leaders Gain It and Lose It amongst others. They also developed the highly acclaimed Leadership Practices Inventory a 360-degree questionnaire for assessing leadership behaviour which is one of the most widely used leadership assessment instruments in the world.In their presentation they will examine The Leadership Challenge. The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership resulted from an intensive research project to determine the leadership competencies that are essential to getting extraordinary things done in organizations. To conduct the research Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner collected thousands of Personal Best' storiesthe experiences people recalled when asked to think of a peak leadership experience.Despite differences in people's individual stories their Personal-Best Leadership Experiences revealed similar patterns of behaviour. The study found that when leaders are at their personal best they: Model the Way Inspire a Shared Vision Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act Encourage the Heart Event Owner: Matt Dunn (Head of Business Development at Benchmark Management)'''

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