Backed by over twenty years of original research with data from over 1 million leaders, The Leadership Challenge is a comprehensive leadership development program created by bestselling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner.
The Leadership Challenge is about how leaders mobilize others to want to get extraordinary things done. It's about The Five Practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity, and risks into rewards. It's about a climate in which people turn challenging opportunities into remarkable successes.
Our research has revealed five practices that are common when leaders are able to make extraordinary things happen. We call these The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®. They are:
- Model the Way
- Inspire a Shared Vision
- Challenge the Process
- Enable Others to Act
- Encourage the Heart
