Books published by Center for Creative Leadership

The relationship between you and your boss is important in determining your success at work. However, having a good relationship isn't just a matter of lucking out with the right boss. It takes a focused effort by both parties to forge a strong working relationship that achieves results. Just as it's your boss's job to manage you, it's up to you to manage your boss. By taking an active role in managing your boss, you can decrease misunderstandings, improve day-to-day communication, and become even more successful in meeting the needs of your boss and your organization.

This book will walk you through a four step process for making the most out of your experiences. You will learn how to seek out beneficial experiences, make sense out of both old and new experiences, internalize the most useful lessons from each experience, and apply those lessons to new, unfamiliar, and challenging situations.

Having interpersonal skills will allow you to motivate, inspire, and successfully lead others, as well as further your own career development.This guidebook will show you how, through self-awareness and strategic implementation of behaviors, you can utilize interpersonal savvy to make the most out of negative situations, develop and lead others, and create a positive working environment despite daily challenges and hardships.

The Campbell Leadership Descriptor is a forty-item self-assessment that helps you discover your strengths and weaknessesin nine major leadership attributes: vision, management, empowerment, diplomacy, feedback, entrepreneurialism,personal style, personal energy, and multicultural awareness.

More and more managerial challenges require leaders to be accountable-to take initiative without having full authority for the process or the outcomes. Accountability goes beyond responsibility. Whereas responsibility is generally delegated by the boss, the organization, or by virtue of position, accountability is having an intrinsic sense of ownership of the task and the willingness to face the consequences that come with success or failure.

The experts at CCL have found that successful managers acquire many core skills from their work assignments. Jobs are a rich source of learning. But some jobs provide more of a learning opportunity than others. And many employees don't focus on the learning potential of their day-to-day tasks. This Participant Workbook contains a field tested profile that will show you how to seek challenges and to draw knowledge from your professional life. You will be able to score and interpret the profile with the aid of this action guide. You will determine what and how much you are learning, what parts of your job hold key challenges, and what strategies you might adopt to derive maximal learning from these experiences.

The experts at CCL have found that successful managers acquire many core skills from their work assignments. Jobs are a rich source of learning. But some jobs provide more of a learning opportunity than others. And many employees don't focus on the learning potential of their day-to-day tasks. This Facilitator's Guide details the essential workshop procedures (including setup, administration, and follow-up) and provides you with debrief presentation slides. You don't need to be a training professional to use this tool in your organization: this guide gives you all the basics. Enable your employees to thrive on challenge!

Leaders wear multiple hats. Most leaders are comfortable with and effective in the role of managing their direct reports' day-to-day performance. However, many leaders are less clear about the role of developing their direct reports, particularly coaching for development. In CCL's experience, most people want their managers to coach them but say this doesn't happen often enough. This guidebook provides an introduction to the basics of leader-coaching, including a structure and a set of guidelines to conduct effective formal and informal coaching conversations with your direct reports. Leaders are in the best position to support the development of their people. Coaching skills are one important set of tools that can be used to leverage people's everyday experiences at work, to drive development, and to build leadership capacity in individuals, teams, and organizations.

Having interpersonal skills will allow you to motivate, inspire, and successfully lead others, as well as further your own career development.

The success of your daily interactions with others, whether during formal meetings or encounters at the water cooler, can make or break your success in the workplace. Having interpersonal skills will allow you to motivate, inspire, and successfully lead others, as well as further your own career development. This guidebook will show you how, through self-awareness and strategic implementation of behaviors, you can utilize interpersonal savvy to make the most out of negative situations, develop and lead others, and create a positive working environment despite daily challenges and hardships.

This book will show you how to diagnose problems in your team by focusing on the three outcomes of effective leadership: direction, alignment, and commitment. By assessing where your group stands in each of these outcomes, you can plan and implement the changes necessary to get better results.

Providing feedback to others about their performance is a key developmental experience. But not all feedback is effective in making the best use of that experience. This guidebook demonstrates how to make the feedback you give more effective so that others can benefit from your message.

This guidebook outlines the benefits of effective delegation and the fears and concerns that can prevent or hinder it, then offers four key ideas that leaders can use to enable better delegation.