The ASTD Leadership Handbook

Edited by Elaine Biech

Welcome to The ASTD Leadership Handbook webpage! Here you'll find information about the book, a table of contents, free tools provided by the authors,  a free sample chapter and more.

A looming leadership gap faces most organizations over the next 10 years. Has your organization prepared for the imminent lack-of-leadership crisis? Do you have a pipeline of developed leaders for the future?

Leadership is the most important competency for both individual and organizational success and advancement. As Cynthia D. McCauley of the Center for Creative Leadership notes in her overview, leadership is also “a tool designed to help with a particular human dilemma: how to get individuals to work together effectively to produce collective outcomes.”

When you need to learn more about how to drive success in your organization, where do you turn? To the experts. And The ASTD Leadership Handbook provides 48 thought leaders—the names you know and have come to trust—to enable you to learn about every facet of leadership. Here you’ll find a substantial and practical collection of wisdom, philosophies,and tools from the most respected authorities on the subject. Within this impressive volume, you’ll find five major sections addressing the critical aspects of the field:

  • Leadership Competencies
  • Leadership Development
  • Attributes of Successful Leaders
  • Contemporary Leadership Challenges
  • Broadening the Leadership Discussion.

In each chapter, leaders share their expertise to help you solve your most pressing leadership challenges. Get the complete table of contents here.

The lineup includes leading experts from a broad range of organizations in both the public and private sectors and features a number from the Center for Creative Leadership (ranked by the Financial Times as one of the top three leadership development organizations in the world).

Many of the authors also provide free tools, which you can get here. If you can invest in only one leadership book, let this be it. You’ll have all the insights and applications you need to thoroughly understand and practice its principles, guided by the expertise of those who have literally written the books on leadership.

Did you know that you can save big with The ASTD Handbook Collection?  In addition to The ASTD Leadership Handbook, you will receive The ASTD Handbook for Measuring and Evaluating Training along with The ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals.

About the Editor

Like the experts within this Handbook, Elaine Biech is an experienced leader in the profession and in developing others’ leadership skills. No one is better suited to the task of knitting together an extensive collection of contributions from the experts in leadership. Her talent makes The ASTD Leadership Handbook an incomparable resource.

 

Biech is president of ebb associates inc, a strategic implementation, leadership development, and experiential learning consulting firm. Customizing all of her work for individual clients, she conducts strategic planning sessions and implements corporate-wide systems such as quality improvement, reengineering of business processes, and mentoring programs. She facilitates topics such as coaching, fostering creativity, leadership skills, creating leadership development programs, training competence, managing corporate-wide change, and organizational communication. She is author or editor of more than 50 books and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Management Update, The Washington Post, and Fortune magazine. To learn more about her development of the Handbook, visit her blog.

 

 

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We'd like to get your feedback on The ASTD Leadership Handbook! To give us your feedback, send an email to handbook@astd.org.

 

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