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  • Go beyond the short term and zero in on the right target and vision
  • Eliminate the gap between your company’s stated values and actual behavior
  • Deliver legendary, maniacal customer service and earn raving fans
  • Truly empower your people and unleash their incredible potential
  • Create a coaching culture that boosts performance at every level
  • Ground your leadership in humility and focus on the greater good

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  • Copyright 2019
  • Dimensions: 6" x 9"
  • Pages: 416
  • Edition: 3rd
  • Book
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-485753-4
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-485753-4

Great organizations don’t happen by accident! For 35+ years, Dr. Ken Blanchard and his colleagues have helped thousands of leaders and organizations evolve from good to great -- becoming the providers, employers, and investments of choice in their respective industries. Leading at a Higher Level, Third Edition brings together Blanchard’s most up-to-date thinking and research on the principles and practices used by the world’s most successful organizations. Readers will learn how to:

  • Build a high performing organization
  • Create a compelling vision
  • Nurture customers and empower people
  • Tailor leadership styles to bring out individuals’ highest potential
  • Cultivate self-leaders
  • Use coaching and mentoring to develop leadership bench strength
  • Create effective teams and foster collaboration
  • Manage change
  • Cultivate trust
  • Establish a world-class culture
  • Develop a leadership point of view
  • Practice servant leadership to attain the highest individual, social, and financial results

Based on the Blanchard principle that both results and people are important, Leading at a Higher Level, Third Edition combines proven theories with practical actions for leaders in every organization, large and small.

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Is Your Organization High Performing?

Table of Contents

Introduction     xxii
Leading at a Higher Level     xxiii
Why Did We Write This Book?     xxiv
How This Book Is Organized    xxvi

SECTION I:  SET YOUR SIGHTS ON THE RIGHT TARGET AND VISION     1
Chapter 1  Is Your Organization High Performing?     3

Don Carew, Fay Kandarian, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Jesse Stoner, and Ken Blanchard
The Right Target: The Quadruple Bottom Line     4
A High Performing Organization Scores Every Time     9
The HPO SCORES® Model     10
Leadership Is the Engine     12
The HPO SCORES® Quiz: How Does Your Organization Score?     13
HPO SCORES® Quiz     13
Chapter 2  The Power of Vision     17
Jesse Stoner, Ken Blanchard, and Drea Zigarmi
The Importance of Vision     17
Effective Versus Ineffective Vision Statements     18
Creating a Vision That Really Works     19
A Compelling Vision Creates a Culture of Greatness     24
Vision Is the Place to Start     24
Vision Can Exist Anywhere in an Organization     26
Make Your Vision a Reality     27
Vision and Leadership     29

SECTION II:  TREAT YOUR PEOPLE RIGHT     33
Chapter 3  Empowerment Is the Key     35

Alan Randolph and Ken Blanchard
What Is Empowerment?     36
The Power of Empowerment     37
How History Blocks Change to Empowerment     37
Tapping People’s Power and Potential: A Real-World Example     39
Learning the Language of Empowerment     40
The Three Keys to Empowerment     41
Chapter 4  SLII®: The Integrating Concept     53
The Founding Associates
The Three Skills of an SLII® Leader     54
    Goal Setting: The First Skill     54
    Diagnosis: The Second Skill     54
    Matching: The Third Skill     55
Enthusiastic Beginners Need a Directing Style     58
Disillusioned Learners Need a Coaching Style     59
Capable But Cautious Performers Need a Supporting Style     60
Self-Reliant Achievers Need a Delegating Style     60
Development Level Varies from Goal to Goal and Task to Task     61
Meeting People Where They Are     62
The Importance of Partnering with People     66
Effective Leadership Is a Transformational Journey     67
Chapter 5  Self Leadership: The Power Behind Empowerment     69
Susan Fowler, Ken Blanchard, and Laurence Hawkins
Creating an Empowered Workforce     70
Creating Self Leaders Through Individual Learning     71
The Three Skills of a Self Leader     72
Chapter 6  One-on-One Leadership     81
Fred Finch and Ken Blanchard
Establishing an Effective Performance Management System     81
One-on-One Leadership and the Performance Management System     85
Partnering as an Informal Performance Management System     100
One-on-Ones: An Insurance Policy for Making One-on-One Leadership Work     101
Chapter 7  Essential Skills for One-on-One Leadership     103
Ken Blanchard and Fred Finch
One Minute Goal Setting     103
Areas of Accountability     104
Performance Standards     105
One Minute Praisings     110
One Minute Re-Directs     113
The Fourth Secret of the One Minute Manager     116
Chapter 8  Building Trust     119
Ken Blanchard, Cynthia Olmstead, and Randy Conley
The High Cost of Low Trust     119
The Benefits of Trust     120
The Four Elements of Trust     120
Creating a High Trust Environment     121
The Transparency Challenge     124
Repairing Broken Trust     126
The Ripple Effect     128
Chapter 9  Coaching: A Key Competency for Leadership Development     131
Madeleine Homan Blanchard and Linda Miller
Definition of Coaching     131
Five Applications of Coaching     132
    Application One: Performance Coaching     133
    Application Two: Development Coaching     135
    Application Three: Career Coaching     137
    Application Four: Coaching to Support Learning     140
    Application Five: Creating an Internal Coaching Culture     142
Chapter 10  Mentoring: The Key to Life Planning     145
Ken Blanchard and Claire Díaz-Ortiz
Obstacles to Beginning a Mentoring Relationship     146
Choosing a Mentoring Partner     147
Essence Versus Form     147
The MENTOR Model: Elements of a Successful Mentoring Partnership     148
Creating a Mentoring Program in Your Organization     151
Tailoring Mentoring to Career Stages     152
Chapter 11  Team Leadership     155
Don Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Lael Good, and Ken Blanchard
Why Teams?     156
Obstacles to High Performance     158
An Effective Team Leadership Approach     159
Providing Leadership Behaviors That Match the Team’s Needs     168
Strategies for Higher Team Performance     173
The Power of Teams     176
Chapter 12  Collaboration: Fuel for High Performance     179
Jane Ripley, Eunice Parisi-Carew, and Ken Blanchard
Collaboration Is Not Coordination, Cooperation, or Teamwork     179
Creating a Collaborative Framework     181
Collaboration Versus Competition     183
What It Takes to Be Collaborative     184
Collaboration: Fuel for High Performance     189
Chapter 13  Organizational Leadership     191
Ken Blanchard, Jesse Stoner, Don Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew, and Fay Kandarian
Real Life Examples of HPO SCORES®     191
Determining the Appropriate Leadership Style for Your Organization     198
Diagnosing Your Organization’s Development Level     198
Results and Relationships: The Determinants of a High Performing Organization     198
Matching Leadership Style to Your Organization’s Development Stage     201
Applying the Appropriate Leadership Style at Each Development Level     203
The Importance of Diagnosis and Matching     206
A History-Making Organizational Turnaround     207
Chapter 14  Organizational Change: Why People Resist It     209
Pat Zigarmi, Judd Hoekstra, and Ken Blanchard
The Importance of Leading Change     209
Why Is Organizational Change So Complicated?     210
When Is Change Necessary?     211
Why Change Gets Derailed or Fails     212
Focus on Leading the Journey     214
Surfacing and Addressing People’s Concerns     215
Different People Are at Different Stages of Concern     223
The Importance of Involving Those Who Are Being Asked to Change     223
Chapter 15  Leading People Through Change     225
Pat Zigarmi and Judd Hoekstra
Five Change Leadership Strategies     225
The Importance of Reinforcing the Change     247
Chapter 16  Managing a Successful Cultural Transformation     249
Garry Demarest, Chris Edmonds, and Bob Glaser
Gung Ho!: A Starting Point     250
Managing a Successful Cultural Transformation     255
Critical Success Factors for Cultural Transformation     261

SECTION III:  TREAT YOUR CUSTOMERS RIGHT     263
Chapter 17  Serving Customers at a Higher Level     265

Ken Blanchard, Kathy Cuff, Vicki Halsey, and Jesse Stoner
Getting Legendary SCORES from Your Customers     265
Creating Legendary Service     267
Serving Customers at a Higher Level     272
Permitting People to Soar     281
Wallowing in a Duck Pond     282
Giving Your People Wings     282

SECTION IV:  HAVE THE RIGHT KIND OF LEADERSHIP     285
Chapter 18  Servant Leadership     287

Ken Blanchard, Scott Blanchard, and Drea Zigarmi
What Is Servant Leadership?     287
Applying Servant Leadership     290
Great Leaders Encourage People to Bring Their Brains to Work     293
What Kind of Leadership Impacts Performance the Most?     294
Being a Servant Leader Is a Question of the Heart     298
Driven Versus Called Leaders     299
The Plight of the Ego     300
Ego Antidotes     302
What Servant Leaders Do     304
Servant Leadership: A Mandate or a Choice     307
Chapter 19  Determining Your Leadership Point of View     313
Margie Blanchard, Pat Zigarmi, and Ken Blanchard
Elements of a Leadership Point of View     314
Developing Your Own Leadership Point of View     323
Become a Higher Level Leader     332
Endnotes     333
Acknowledgments     347
About the Authors     349
Services Available     371
Index     375


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