Webcast:
Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. It's the quality of this relationship that matters most when we're engaged in getting extraordinary things done. Strategies, tactics, skills, and practices are empty without understanding the human aspirations that connect leaders and constituents. A leader-constituent relationship that's characterized by fear and distrust will never, ever produce anything of lasting value. A relationship characterized by mutual respect and confidence will overcome the greatest adversities and leave a legacy of significance.
And because leadership is a relationship, a leader's ultimate success is indisputably linked to their emotional intelligence. In this Webcast, best-selling and award-winning author Jim Kouzes will explore this fundamental truth about leadership and how all of the evidence that he and his coauthor, Barry Posner, have gathered during their over 25 years of research strongly indicate that emotional intelligence is a prerequisite to exemplary leadership.
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Presenters
Jim Kouzes is the Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, and the coauthor with Barry Posner of the internationally award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge with the 5th edition launching July 2012. Adding to the list of awards this book has received is the 2009 selection of The Leadership Challenge as one of "the 100 best business books of all time" by 800-CEO-READ , an online business bookseller. Jim and Barry have coauthored over thirty other publications, including Credibility, Encouraging the Heart, A Leader's Legacy, and The Student Leadership Challenge. Their Leadership Practices Inventory is the bestselling off-the-shelf leadership assessment instrument in the world. The Wall Street Journal has cited Jim as one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S., and he received the 2010 Thought Leader of the Year award from the Instructional Systems Association. In 2009 Jim and Barry were the recipients of the Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award from the American Society for Training and Development, and in 2006 Toastmasters International awarded Jim its highest honor, the Golden Gavel. Before devoting his full time to speaking and writing, Jim spent 30 years managing and leading organizations, including a dozen years as president, CEO, and chairman of the Tom Peters Company. Jim believes it was on January 20, 1961 when he was first inspired to dedicate himself to leadership. That was the day he was one of only a dozen Eagle Scouts who served in John F. Kennedy's Honor Guard at the Presidential Inauguration.