A key feature of the role of managers is to develop the people who make up their team. This book explains the development process and contextualises it against the overall aims, strategies and business plans of the organisation. It explores the role of the line manager in creating development opportunities and provides examples to show how managers can use coaching, mentoring, delegation and performance management to help their team develop skills and learn to work together effectively.

Development for Improved Performance

Leading and Coaching

Mentoring and Delegating

Change and Performance

Evaluating Performance

David Pardey
Director of QMD Ltd and development consultant for the Institute of Leadership and Management.

Comprehensive and highly practical, Introducing Leadership introduces the principles and practice of leadership, from theory through to the development of the reader’s own leadership ability. From the analysis of the different sources of leadership and management theory emerges a model that will provide the basis for the development of readers’ own leadership skills and for the application of these through the rest of the book.

Written by an experienced author in the field of management development, the book is split into three parts: Section one – the nature and role of leadership Section two – leading others Section three – leading innovation and change

The learning development is clearly structured and this text also provides the underpinning knowledge requirements for Level 3 qualifications in leadership.

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