Leadership Profile and Pocketbook Pack

Would you like to discover your current level of Leadership Effectiveness? Do you need strategies on how to improve your skills in a simple, convenient way?

This handy combination has been designed to:

a] provide a snapshot of your current leadership strengths and development needs using the Leadership Effectiveness Profile, and
b] offer support for developing those areas with the Leadership Pocketbook.

Self Discovery Series: Leadership Effectiveness Profile

Effective leadership is not a single skill but, rather like a jigsaw puzzle, is composed of many pieces, or competencies. If all the pieces of the puzzle are not in place, the effectiveness of the leader will be limited.

Linked to many other Team Publications profiles, the Leadership Effectiveness Profile provides strong indicators in several key areas. It incorporates the following eight competencies, which combine to create a great leader:

• Contextual thinking
• Creative assimilation
• People enablement
• Reciprocal communication
• Directional clarity
• Change orchestration
• Driving persistence
• Emotional intelligence

Using 12 questions in each competency area, this instrument enables the leader (or potential leader) to identify their strengths and development needs in each.

Leadership Pocketbook

Written for leaders at all levels - strategic, organisational and team level - The Leadership Pocketbook explains how to inspire, influence, deal with change and achieve objectives.

Illustrated throughout, the book adopts a practical approach, setting out the principles of leadership, the role of the leader, the skills required for effective leadership and the key challenges facing leaders in today's business environment.

Its author, Fiona Dent, is Director of Faculty Development at Ashridge where she is also Programme Director for the Influencing Strategies and Skills Programme. She has over 20 years' experience as a management developer. A focus of the book, described by the author as 'perhaps the most necessary skill for any leader', is self-awareness - to know yourself, to realise what your leadership strengths and weaknesses are and when you must continue to develop.