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• Title:Develop your leadership skills : fast, effective ways to become a leader people want to follow / John Adair.
  
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• Author/Creator:Adair, John Eric, 1934- author.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Kogan Page Ltd, 2019.
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:DAVID LAM LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HD57.7 .A2746 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Leadership.
  
• Medical Subjects: Leadership
  
• Edition:Fourth Edition.
  
• Description:vi, 94 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• Series:Creating success.
  
• Summary:Adair's most accessible title on leadership. This essential pocket guide will boost your confidence levels, inspire you and guide you on your journey to becoming a leader of excellence. Acknowledged as a world expert, John Adair offers stimulating insights into recognizing and developing individual leadership qualities, acquiring personal authority and, most importantly, mastering core leadership functions such as planning, communicating and motivating. Fully updated for 2019, this 4th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips to improve or develop your leadership skills, this guide distils the essence of John Adair's teaching and provides a framework for becoming an effective leader.
  
• Notes:Revised edition of the author's Develop your leadership skills, 2016.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780749492427 paperback
  0749492422 paperback
  9780749498801 hardcover
  0749498803 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 01. What you have to be
  Some essential qualities
  Generic leadership traits
  02. What you have to know
  03. What you need to do
  Task need
  Team maintenance need
  Individual needs
  three circles interact
  Towards the functional approach to leadership
  Your role as leader
  Leadership: Personal reminder
  04. How to turn the core leadership functions into skills
  Function one Defining the task
  Function two Planning
  Function three Briefing
  Function four Controlling
  Function five Evaluating
  Function six Motivating
  Function seven Organizing
  Function eight Providing an example
  05. How to develop yourself as a leader
  Be prepared
  Be proactive
  Be reflective
  06. How to lead at the strategic level
  functions of a strategic leader
  importance of practical wisdom
  Leadership for desirable change
  07. How to grow leaders in your organization
  Principle one Develop a strategy for leadership development
  Principle two Selection
  Principle three Training for leadership
  Principle four Career development
  Principle five Line managers as leadership developers
  Principle six Culture
  Principle seven chief executive
  Finding greatness in people.