Come visit the Campus Programming and Leadership Development office and check out any of these highly inspirational books. Each one offers different insights into how to become a better leader.
101 Ways to Make Training Active by Mel Silberman
Enliven your training sessions and never, ever leave a deadly dull impression on participants! The most extensive collection of active-learning techniques ever published, 101 Ways to Make Training Active offers specific suggestions on how to organize and conduct lively training session that can be used to teach any subject. From team building skills, inviting feedback, and promoting back-on-the-job application, you’ll discover inventive, proven strategies to make your training session unforgettable.
104 Activities that Build by Alanna Jones
Formerly The Wrecking Ball, this popular book makes teaching and learning by playing games a simple and fun experience for everyone. Games can be used to encourage people to modify their behavior, increase interaction with others, start discussions, address issues, and build relationships. This book contains 104 games that do all this plus give people skills in coping, teamwork, self-esteem, anger management, and self-discovery.
Active Training by Mel Silberman
This comprehensive handbook shows you how to design and conduct experiential programs in private and public sector organizations from beginning to end. Silberman has augmented the first edition with a wealth of new training exercises and updated cases studies, along with information on emerging training technologies. Plus, a new section titled “Introducing Active Training” explores in greater depth the reasons why adults learn best when they are actively engaged in the process.
All Together Now! by Lorraine L. Ukens
You want to get your audience involved; you want to hold on to your participants’ attention. Games and exercises are among the most innovative, enjoyable, and effective group training tools. All Together Now!, in the tradition of Ukens’ popular Getting Together and Working Together, is an activity resource designed to make learning unforgettable. All the necessary forms and handouts are here, and they are reproducible to facilitate ease of use. Make training experiences interactive with the help of this must-have treasury of games.
The Art of Framing by Gail T. Fairhurst and Robert A. Sarr
A leader’s most powerful tool of influence is language, and each day is filled with dozens of opportunities to influence perceptions, manage meaning, rally support, and spur action. This practical guide to the critical skill of language framing shows how to use powerful communication tools to frame your words for impact, consistence, credibility, and success.
Broke! by Trent Anderson and Seppy Basili
If you’ve ever made a midnight run for Ding-Dongs, only to stretch that snack into dinner for a week, or tried to squeeze eight people into a room meant four during spring break in Cancun, then you’ve lived the life of a broke college student. But we’re here to tell you that there is a way to live comfortably on less. This book will show you how to do just that. Packed with tips on and resources for everything from earning fast cash (legally, of course) to getting out of trouble when online shopping puts you over your credit limit, this guide provides you with everything you need to know to save your money and stretch your dollar further.
Building the Bridge as You Walk On It by Robert E. Quinn
Building the Bridge As You Walk On It tells the personal stories who have embraced deep change and inspired author Robert Quinn to take his concept one step further and develop a new model of leadership -- “the fundamental state of leadership.” The exploration of this transformative state is at the very heart of the book.
Quinn shows how anyone can enter the fundamental state of leadership by engaging in the eight practices that center on the theme of ever-increasing integrity—reflective action, authentic engagement, appreciative inquiry, grounded vision, adaptive confidence, detached interdependence, responsible freedom, and tough love. After each chapter, Quinn challenges you to assess yourself with respect to each practice and to formulate a strategy for personal growth.
Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell
In Dr. Maxwell’s trademark style, Developing the Leader Within You enhances your leadership growth as you explore the value of: achieving success using the Five Levels of Leadership; building trust through personal integrity; prioritizing; creating positive change and understanding the evolutionary process involved; developing people, your most appreciable assets; identifying and solving problems pertaining to their recurrence; defining and articulating a vision for your organization; becoming character-driven instead of emotion-driven. Building on the leadership skills you already have, Developing the Leader Within You equips you to achieve positive change in your life and the life of your organization.
Discovering the Leader in You by Robert J. Lee
This book is based on a simple, obvious point: leadership roles should be filled by people who deliberately decide they want to be in them. Yet many executives and managers find that they have become leaders by default rather than as a result of a personal choice. In fact, a great many people drift into or away from being leaders simply because they have not done the work of matching their own honestly described self with the realities of the leadership role. Not until they are well into their careers do many individuals seriously explore their personal fit for leadership. However, by then it is often too late to prepare for more gratifying roles. Discovering the Leader in You offers an approach to understanding how aspects of personality, character, vision, home life, values, and skills match with essential leadership activities.
Effective Public Speaking by Bryski Brown
The third edition of Effective Public Speaking: An Introduction to Oral Communication continues our investigation of the primary forms of oral communication: public speaking, group communication, and the interpersonal interview. While the third edition includes new information concerning the art and practice of oral communication, this new information is built upon the foundation of the first edition. The focus of this text is for beginning speakers to help them create, develop, organize, and deliver effective messages in public, group, and interpersonal contexts.
Encouraging the Heart by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
When it comes to motivating people to higher standards of performance, nothing—not even money—works as powerfully as the recognition of individual effort and achievement. And yet this “soft” leadership skill is one many leaders find hardest to command. In this work, the best-selling authors of The Leadership Challenge delve deeply into the art of encouragement and reveal the practices and techniques exceptional leaders use to inspire extraordinary performance in others. Charge with real-world examples, practical ideas, and expert advice, Encouraging the Heart is your guide to mastering on of the most important elements of exemplary leadership.
Finding Your Voice by Larraine R. Matusak
Credibility, empowerment, and collaboration are not just ideas for business and political leaders—they are concepts that ordinary citizens can grasp to bring out the leader within themselves to affect positive social change at the grassroots level. Larraine Matusak, a noted expert on leadership development, describes leadership as a body of knowledge that can be taught and learned, and sets forth a practical set of tools and resources to provide the knowledge and skills necessary for effective leadership. Using divers examples of citizens who have accepted the responsibility to lead, Matusak shows how individuals who are without a title or position of power can still pursue their passion and fit leadership opportunities to their specific talents.
Fish! by Stephen C. Lunden, Ph.D., Harry Paul, and John Christensen
Addressing today’s most pressing work issues, including employee retention and burnout, with an engaging metaphor and an appealing message that applies to anyone in any sector of an organization, Fish! Offers wisdom that is easy to grasp, instantly applicable, and profound- the hallmarks of a true business classic.
Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney
Leaders make great companies, but few of us truly understand how to turn ourselves into great leaders. One company—the Jesuits—pioneered a unique formula for molding leaders. In the process, the Jesuits built one of history’s most successful companies. Founded in 1540 by ten men with no capital and no business plan, the Jesuits have been a source of innovation and discovery ever since. In this groundbreaking book, Chris Lowney, a former Jesuit and executive with J. P. Morgan, reveals the leadership principles that have guided Jesuit leaders in their diverse persuits for more than 450 years.
Insights on Leadership by Stephen R. Covey
In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Reflections on Leadership, many of today’s most respected business thinkers share their insights into key aspects of Robert Greenleaf’s revolutionary thinking. Over the course of 33 essays, a dream team explores how Greenleaf has influenced today’s business leaders and discusses a range of leadership principles at the heart of his philosophy, including stewardship, the spirit of the workplace, and the concept of healing leadership.
Leadership by Hackman Johnson
The revision of this outstanding text retains its skillful blend of theory and practice in a well-organized, readable format. The fourth edition includes increased coverage of emotional intelligence, transformational leadership, resisting influence, group decision making, global leadership, and ethics. Two valuable new features give students additional perspectives on leadership: “Cultural Connections illustrates the impact of global diversity on concepts covered in the chapter, and “Leadership on the Big Screen” describes a movie or documentary that illuminates chapter themes.
Leadership, Like Jazz by Max DePree
In this bold and innovative work, the best-selling author of Leadership is an Art draws a compelling and illuminating parallel between leadership and jazz- both art forms in which freedom and technique, improvisation and rules, inspiration and restraint must be precisely and expertly blended. This dynamic, inspiring book compels you to reconsider every assumption you have about work, and find your own voice in this soaring coda on the art and craft of leadership.
Leading in a Culture of Change by Michael Fullan
Leading in a Culture of Change offers new and seasoned leaders’ insights into the dynamics of change and presents a unique and imaginative approach for navigating the intricacies of the change process. Author Michael Fullan, an internationally acclaimed expert in organizational change, shows how leaders in all types of organizations can accomplish their goals and become exceptional leaders. He draws on the most current ideas and theories on the topic of effective leadership, incorporates case examples of large scale transformation, and reveals a remarkable convergence of powerful themes.
Leading with Soul by Terry Deal and Lee Bolman
While preserving the book’s basic story and message, the newly revised edition of Leading with Soul offers much more. Bolman and Deal present insights about the changing nature of work and the new fact of workers. They add an entirely new chapter that highlights stories from readers who share their own real experiences with soul at work. At the heart of this groundbreaking book is a contemporary parable, which tells the story of Steve, a dispirited leader in search of something more meaningful in his life than an obsession with the bottom line. Through conversations with Maria, Steve unexpectedly discovers the true meaning of leadership.
Learning to Lead by Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith
Over their distinguished careers, Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith have demonstrated how leaders are made, not born. In today’s environment of crisis and uncertainty, the ability to deveop leaders is arguably the most pressing concern, whether in business, politics, education, health care, the environment, or the arts. Integrating wisdom from the world’s most insightful and accomplished leaders, self assessments, and dozens of interactive skill-building exercises, Learning to Lead reveals the underpinnings of true leadership.
On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
For many years, Warren Bennis has persuasively argued that leaders are not born, they are made. And for countless readers, On Becoming a Leader has served as a beacon of insight, delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to achieve it. In a world increasingly defined by turbulence and uncertainty, the call to leadership is more urgent than ever. Featuring fresh, new commentary on the challenges and opportunities that leaders face today, this new edition will inspire the next generation of leaders and guide us into the future.
Quicksilver by Karl Rohnke and Steve Butler
Quicksilver includes ten years’ worth of new ideas: Icebreakers, Warm-Ups, Games, Stunts, Initiatives, Trust Activities, Closures, and more. There’s a plethora of programmatic play in these pages; enough to delight even the most avid game collector. There is also a section on leadership, where the authors have combined their 43 years of experience to provide you with some insights into leading effective adventure programs.
Secrets of Connective Leadership & Learning with Humor by Peter M. Jonas
In Secrets of Connective Leadership & Learning with Humor, Jonas explores how humor can enhance leadership performance and improve the learning environment. He uses research and brain-based concepts to build a theoretical foundation and provides practical components for connecting leadership, learning, and humor. Individuals must understand the theoretical nature of leadership before they can translate the concepts into practice on a daily basis; the same is true for humor. The proper use of humor will not only increase learning comprehension but also enhance leader effectiveness.
Silver Bullets by Karl Rohnke
In the mythic glow of childhood, all things were possible. In play, time itself often stood still while everyone became a little braver, stronger, and more whole. The activities of this book have all been used effectively by a variety of teachers, counselors, therapists, camp directors, and church leaders. All have wanted an effective, engaging way to bring people together to build trust, and to break down the artificial barriers between individuals and groups of individuals.
Visionary Leadership by Burt Nanus
Drawing together major findings from leadership, strategic management, and future studies as well as his own extensive research and consulting experience, Nanus uses practical examples to show how to: perform a “vision audit” to determine your organization’s current direction; analyze the opportunities and threats to your vision; anticipate changes in the economy, society, and technology that suggest new direction; formulate alternative visions and choose which is best for you; and monitor and track the vision and know when it requires revision. Visionary Leadership is an indispensable guide for leaders at all levels.
Voyage to Success: Your College Adventure Guide by John Ricchini and Terry Arndt
Voyage to Success was developed to provide you with the tools you need to become a successful college student. The most comprehensive college adventure guide available, Voyage to Success address all aspects of a student’s life in college, including academic, personal, social, financial, and career planning. Packed full of bullet-point descriptions, charts, tables, real-life examples, inspirational quotes, and interesting tips, Voyage to Success is not only entertaining to read, but also educational and informative. In addition, the individual and group exercises are sure to produce plenty of opportunities for personal growth and interactive discussions.
Working Together: 55 Team Games by Lorraine L. Ukens
Working Together: 55 Team Games provides group facilitators with exciting and energizing team competitions that help build a constructive competitive spirit for a truly cooperative team effort. As participants discuss their performance in terms of cooperation, leadership, resourcefulness, decision making, efficiency, and initiative, they will develop an awareness of the obligations of each and every member of a group confronted with a challenge.
Workshops by Jeff E. Brooks-Harris and Susan R. Stock-Ward
This volume presents a practical approach to designing and running workshops. It is meant to introduce novice facilitators, as well as those with much experience, to an integrated model of workshop design and development. Grounded in learning theory, this model is used to demonstrate to readers how to design, facilitate, and direct workshops, as well as how to identify and improve upon participants’ existing skills. Practical how-to sessions assist readers in creating specific experiential activities designed to facilitate different types of learning. Readers also learn how to understand and attend to individual differences while taking all workshop participants through a universal cycle of learning.
The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle by James C. Hunter
To lead is not to be “the boss,” the “head honcho,” or “the brass”. To lead is to serve. Although serving may imply weakness to some, conjuring up a picture of the CEO waiting on the workforce hand and foot, servant leadership is actually a robust, revolutionary idea that can have significant impact on an organization’s performance. Jim Hunter champions this hard/soft approach to leadership, which turns bosses and managers into coaches and mentors.