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The Purple Bench

The Leadership Challenge has touched my life in some unique ways. Quite often I facilitate this ...

Behavior #1: I Set a Personal Example of What I Expect From Others

Walking the walk (and talking the talk) is incredibly important, especially when it comes to leadership. ...

Sweeping the Floor and Weeding the Garden

We have worked in the same building for the last fifteen years with five different principals. ...

Leadership Success in a Virtual World

These days most of us are working from our home offices/spare bedrooms/kitchen tables in our “Zoom ...

Behavior #8: I Challenge People To Try Out New and Innovative Ways to Do Their Work

To be successful, leaders must push for change. They know that what got them and their ...

Behavior #25: I Tell Stories of Encouragement About the Good Work of Others

Did you know that by telling stories of encouragement you can increase the level of engagement ...

What Does Oscar Night Have to Do With Leadership?

I began my journey to ultimately become a Certified Master of The Leadership Challenge® just as ...

Let’s Go Pole Vaulting – Blindfolded

Have you ever pole vaulted? Have you ever seen anyone pole vault? Well, let’s go pole ...

Can Successful People Be Nice?

Art Markman of the Harvard Business Review recently wrote an article, “Are Successful People Nice?” in ...

The Leadership Challenge

iLead programs are grounded in the award-winning, best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner. This research-driven leadership development model illustrates how everyday leaders mobilize others to want to get extraordinary things done.

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