Unleashing Your Leadership Potential: Seven Strategies for Success

by Edith Luc

Overview

Unleashing Your Leadership Potential provides the means to unleash the unique capital of leadership inherent in each of us, making it possible for teams, organizations, and society to improve the lives of others while we improve our own. Luc's leadership model is based on case studies and interviews with leaders, providing insights about how excellent leaders developed their own leadership styles.

Dr. Luc's model presents seven strategies and underlying actions by which anyone—teacher or student, manager or subordinate, employee or community volunteer, parent or caregiver—can discover their leadership capability and then continuously improve it. This book is not a study of the skills needed for leadership, since leaders come in all shapes and forms, rather it is a guide for readers to use to develop into leaders without attending expensive workshops or time-consuming formal programs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578868742
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	04/16/2009
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Edith Luc is a writer whose first book was nominated in Quebec for the best business book of the year (2004). A social psychologist and a specialist on leadership, she consults with global organizations and has written extensively on leadership and intercultural communication. She is an associate professor at HEC Montreal, an internationally recognized business school.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Nonconformism and Leadership Actualization
Chapter 3 Developing Leadership Self-Efficacy
Chapter 4 Developing a T Approach to Learning
Chapter 5 Building Leadership Resilience
Chapter 6 Accessing Actors of Leadership Actualization or Educators
Chapter 7 Personal Vision and Leadership
Chapter 8 Getting into Leadership Actions and Engagement
Chapter 9 Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

Edith Luc has contributed a much needed perspective on leadership development by revealing how anyone in an organization can help develop leadership qualities in all employees. Her well-researched and data-based approach will provide insights not only to those who aspire to develop themselves as leaders, but also to those who would like to mentor, coach, and develop others. This a very useful, ground-breaking work.

Stephen H. Rhinesmith

Edith Luc's unique book fills a gap in our current thinking on leadership. It democratizes leadership development by revealing how leaders have developed their own leadership. The seven strategies that the author exposes cover the essentials of how to unleash your unique leadership potential. I especially enjoyed the chapter on Developing a T learning approach. It is a great book for anyone in charge of developing leadership in others: from parents, teachers, educators, leadership trainers and coaches to management and executive teams.

Jacques Couture

Unleashing Your Leadership Potential is a book about transforming ourselves and helping others become better leaders. I recommend it to all my students on top of using it as a personnel coaching book.

Jose Proulx

This book will not only help unleash your potential as a leader, it will help unleash your potential as a human being! Incredibly rich with real world examples and cases, Unleashing Your Leadership Potential will help you become ‘the best you can be’ as a leader!

Marshall Goldsmith

A refreshing view of leadership development, away from the usual description of the heroic leader having infinite attributes. This book is highly effective in guiding readers through everyday actions of leadership development.

Isabelle Courville

Edith Luc’s book is a real breakthrough in leadership literature. Heroic leaders are a phenomenon of the past. Everyone has a potential of leadership which is a shared process. This book is a must for today’s leaders and for readers interested in a new understanding of leadership.

Laurent Lapierre