Leadership Games
Experiential Learning for Organizational Development
Published on 30. June 1999
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-81-7036-834-2 (ISBN)
Description
Leadership Games presents 25 practical and inexpensive experiential activities designed to be used in various leadership training and development programs. It centers on areas which are of primary concern to today`s managers-team leadership, risking innovation, fostering collaboration, managing conflict, and using diversity. For each exercise there is a set of explicit directions and cues on strategic considerations, including appropriate timing, indicators of successful application, and a rich sample of proposed questions that point the way to fruitful post-exercise discussions with participants.
The book is a must for trainers, consultants, HRD managers, corporate executives, libraries in the corporate sector, and institutes/departments of management, students of management and general readers.
The book is a must for trainers, consultants, HRD managers, corporate executives, libraries in the corporate sector, and institutes/departments of management, students of management and general readers.
More details
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Publishing group
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 184 mm
ISBN-13
978-81-7036-834-2 (9788170368342)
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Stephen S. Kaagan is currently professor of education at Michigan State University. His teaching interests are leadership, organizational analysis, and administrative practice. He has a doctorate from Harvard University and has been honored with several awards, including membership in the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London, England and Honorary Doctorates from Williams College in Massachusetts and Green Mountain College in Vermont.
Before coming to Michigan State University in 1991, Kaagan served as president of Hurricane Island Outward Bound (1989-91), commissioner of education for the State of Vermont (1982-88), and provost at Pratt Institute in New York City (1977-82).
He has written extensively on leadership, organizational development, the role of the arts in schooling, and assessment and accountability. Selected publications include Developing Teacher Leaders: How Teacher Leadership Enhances School Success (with Frank Crowther et al.), Managing Successful School Reform: the Legacy of Chris Argyris (a special edition of the International Journal of Educational Management, co-edited with Frank Crowther), Leadership Games: Experiential Learning for Organizational Development, and Leadership Lessons: From a Life of Character and Purpose in Public Affairs.
Kaagan is a charter board member of ArtServe Michigan. In the late 1980s, he served as a member of a distinguished panel on "Making the System Work Better for Poor Kids," a Carnegie Foundation-sponsored project of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Kaagan's experience spans an academic career; wide-ranging service as an advisor to government agencies, corporations, and educational institutions; military experience in the USMC Reserve; extensive travel throughout the world, including mountaineering expeditions in the Himalayas, Andes, and Cascades; and rugby football refereeing for the US Rugby Football Union.
Before coming to Michigan State University in 1991, Kaagan served as president of Hurricane Island Outward Bound (1989-91), commissioner of education for the State of Vermont (1982-88), and provost at Pratt Institute in New York City (1977-82).
He has written extensively on leadership, organizational development, the role of the arts in schooling, and assessment and accountability. Selected publications include Developing Teacher Leaders: How Teacher Leadership Enhances School Success (with Frank Crowther et al.), Managing Successful School Reform: the Legacy of Chris Argyris (a special edition of the International Journal of Educational Management, co-edited with Frank Crowther), Leadership Games: Experiential Learning for Organizational Development, and Leadership Lessons: From a Life of Character and Purpose in Public Affairs.
Kaagan is a charter board member of ArtServe Michigan. In the late 1980s, he served as a member of a distinguished panel on "Making the System Work Better for Poor Kids," a Carnegie Foundation-sponsored project of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Kaagan's experience spans an academic career; wide-ranging service as an advisor to government agencies, corporations, and educational institutions; military experience in the USMC Reserve; extensive travel throughout the world, including mountaineering expeditions in the Himalayas, Andes, and Cascades; and rugby football refereeing for the US Rugby Football Union.
Content
Prologue
Introduction
Ways of Thinking About Leadership Development
Cueing the Exercises
Exercises on Risking Innovation
Exercises on Fostering Collaboration
Exercises on Managing Conflict
Exercises on Using Diversity
The Exercises in Play: A Story of Real Organizational Change
Conclusion
References
Introduction
Ways of Thinking About Leadership Development
Cueing the Exercises
Exercises on Risking Innovation
Exercises on Fostering Collaboration
Exercises on Managing Conflict
Exercises on Using Diversity
The Exercises in Play: A Story of Real Organizational Change
Conclusion
References