Kick It In & Take The Lead (Series)

UPDATED NEW RELEASES! This 2-volume newly revised and completely redesigned series of student leadership books interactively explores what it takes to develop the self-motivation and personal leadership to make things happen. Combined with separate facilitator guides, this series is action oriented literally, graphically, and experientially.

Volume 1 focuses on leading yourself and inspiring the self-motivation needed to make things happen—because “you can’t lead others until you can lead yourself!” Volume 1 covers:

• Shattering the myths of leadership and see a new awareness level to personal leadership.
• Defining leadership inclusively so everyone can discover the leader inside themselves.
• Discovering the many roles, characteristics, and styles of leadership and why sometimes they matter or sometimes they don’t.
• Finding out what type of person you are when you make things happen, watch things happen or wonder what’s happening.
• Analyzing your attitude and find out what motivates you extrinsically and intrinsically.
• Developing the commitment, trust, and risk-taking confidence in yourself and others.
• Realizing whether you’re congruent in thoughts and action, words and deeds, talkin’ and walkin’ and KICKin’ IT IN!

Volume 2 in the Kick It In & Take The Lead Series collaboratively and interactively explores what it takes to develop better leadership and smarter followership with topics related to:

• Building more collaboration in making things happen when leading and following.
• Defining a common purpose for the greater good within any group or organization.
• Discovering how leadership + followership + common purpose + context creates impact.
• Finding the core values that fundamentally influence group and organizational culture.
• Analyzing conflict with civility so you can solve problems constructively vs. blaming others.
• Developing a Leader-as-Host approach that enables more enlightened self-interest.
• Balancing systemic and hierarchical thinking.
• Nurturing more socially responsible servant leadership and engaged citizenship.
• Realizing the ecology of sustainable leadership in partnership with followership to KICK IT IN!

If you are someone who works with students and you want better leadership and smarter followership in your organization, or if you are a student who wants to become a better leader with smarter followers, then this series of books is for you!