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Who Are K&P and What is TLC?

Jim Kouzes & Barry PosnerThere are two very influential books in my leadership journey. One of those is Marshall Goldsmith’s What Got You Here Won’t Get You There (2007, Hyperion); the other is The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner (Jossey-Bass, 2012). I have talked about both of these works and their authors in previous posts. The Leadership Challenge was introduced to me in the MA (Leadership) program at Royal Roads University as a text and part of the learning. It resonated with me right away as it described perfectly the leadership style that I had been using in my career as a sales manager and senior leader in my organization.

The model described by Kouzes and Posner (K&P) provides a language and framework for which I had been looking. It also builds on the Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership Model that I covered in last week’s post and other transformational leadership models. K&P provide definitions and descriptors of the skills required by leaders to create transformation in the workplace and to influence followers, bringing them to accept the leader’s vision as their own.

An Introduction to Kouzes and Posner

The benchmark for The Leadership Challenge Model (TLC) is the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI). Over three million people have taken this 360° survey, which has enabled K&P to validate the results over and over again. On top of that, there have been hundreds of independent research papers written about this model, and many PHD theses.

The Model identifies five abilities that are crucial to successful leadership:

(The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, 2009, Pfeiffer an Imprint of Wiley)

The foundational element to this Model is the concept that leaders can be made. That anyone can improve their leadership abilities, because most of us are already leaders in the various walks of our life. Those of you who have followed my posts will understand where I am coming from and the many examples I have used to illustrate this point. Recognizing this principle allows us to then understand that for leaders to improve, they need to increase the frequency of credibility-enhancing behaviours, or as K&P put it, “If you don’t believe in the messenger, you won’t believe the message.”

 

 

This is the third on a series specifically exploring what leadership is and how we can not only understand leadership but how to implement it

Leadership series directory:

Leadership is…. Three Theories of Leadership
Directing, Coaching, Supporting & Delegating Are What?

 

 

 

John Whitehead, coaches’ individuals and organizations in becoming more effective by helping them improve their interpersonal communications, emotional intelligence and resiliency.

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