Written by a team of highly experienced and successful executive leadership consultants, this book offers 10 data-driven insights regarding leadership effectiveness, accompanied by practical and easy-to-implement recommendations that directly serve the development of leadership ability.
What makes How Leaders Improve: A Playbook for Leaders Who Want to Get Better Now markedly different from and better than the scores of other books on the topic of leadership? Instead of dedicating their efforts to imparting wisdom on what makes a great leader, the three-person leadership training "dream team" behind this book explain how already-effective leaders can actually get better. How Leaders Improve is a data- and research-driven playbook for how any leader can improve their leadership abilities in a practical, immediate way. Authors Gates, Graddy, and Lindekens―all experienced executive coaches and leadership development consultants―have spent their careers developing leaders, and now they share 10 key insights derived from interviews with leaders who achieved significant improvements in their leadership effectiveness. 
These data-driven insights are augmented by the authors' knowledge of the science behind human behavior change, as well as their experience in developing leaders. The book serves four audiences: leaders looking to improve themselves; organizational stakeholders with the responsibility of developing leaders; individual coaches or managers who want to boost their effectiveness in developing leaders; and educators in the fields of leadership, communication, organizational behavior, organizational psychology, and related fields.
 • Provides insights based on a sample of leaders who improved significantly over time, supplying findings that are based on actual research, not just opinion or anecdotal "evidence"
• Offers practical and applicable recommendations for how individual leaders, organizations, and coaches/managers can apply the 10 insights shared in the book
• Provides a novel framework for determining and assessing who is "ripe" for a leadership development opportunity (the RIPEN model), an effective way for individuals or organizations to determine in which leadership candidates to invest precious development resources 
• Supplies strategies for enhancing one's ripeness for a leadership development opportunity

How Leaders Improve: A Playbook for Leaders Who Want to Get Better Now

Business & Money

Gates, John

Graddy, Jeff

Lindekens, Sacha

Management & Leadership

Praeger

"Ready, Set, Ripen! A Leader’s Guide to Preparing People for Development" is a business parable that explores the mindsets coaches and managers must cultivate in order to promote growth, change, and development in those they work with. This book provides a practical, easy-to-apply approach to enabling people to be ready for behavioral change, so that coaches and managers find it easier to successfully coach others. In our experience as executive coaches and leadership development professionals, we have found that many managers believe that some of the people they attempt to coach are relatively incapable of making significant changes to their performance or are "difficult to coach.” As a result, they deemphasize their investment in coaching and developing others, or approach their coaching work with faulty mindsets that work against the very goals they have for helping others grow and improve. The real issue is not that people can’t make meaningful changes in their behavior, but that managers often lack the right mindsets and skills to maximize their coaching impact with others. Coaching is a learnable skill, but some powerful and pervasive misconceptions need to be put out to pasture if you are to improve your coaching effectiveness. "Ready, Set, Ripen!" is a great resource for anyone who is looking to help others make behavioral changes to improve their performance, including: managers who are looking to develop their team members, executive coaches looking to enhance their impact with clients, individuals who are looking to make meaningful performance improvements, and learning and organizational development professionals responsible for developing talent in their organizations.

Ready, Set, RIPEN! A Leader's Guide to PREPARING PEOPLE for DEVELOPMENT

Avion Consulting Publications

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