Make Extraordinary Things Happen with the Leadership Practices Inventory®

Liberate the leader within you using the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) the bestselling and most trusted leadership development tool of its generation. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the fourth edition of this acclaimed instrument approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360–degree leadership assessment tool helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner′s acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® model to their real–life organizational challenges. The newly revised LPI offers in–depth, precise results to help you become a leader who can

  • Model the Way
  • Inspire a Shared Vision
  • Challenge the Process
  • Enable Others to Act
  • Encourage the Heart

The Development Planner picks up where the LPI Workbook leaves off and helps take you to the next level of developing your leadership skills. The Planner reviews The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, describes the best strategies for learning to lead, and contains more than one hundred developmental activities for becoming a better leader. The Planner can be customized for your situation and will help you to:

Understand various avenues for learning how to lead

  • Integrate the best leadership learning practices into your own routines
  • Consciously review your progress toward becoming a better leader
  • Select the kinds of development activities that best fit your needs
  • Write a plan for the next steps in your leadership development
  • Apply an easy–to–use process that can be repeated, regardless of circumstances or setting

The Planner is your essential LPI resource for determining the most appropriate ways to continue your leadership development journey. It′s your guide to personalizing your plans for becoming the best leader possible.


Includes one copy each of The Student Leadership Challenge, Second Edition, Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal, and Student LPI Self Inventory, and three copies of the Student LPI Observer Inventory.

Fully explore the "Inspire a Shared Vision" practice of exemplary leaders

The Challenge Continues: Inspire a Shared Vision offers readers the opportunity to more closely examine the "Inspire a Shared Vision" leadership practice from the seminal leadership framework developed by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner. Suitable for leaders who are already familiar with The Leadership Challenge principles and its Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership foundational model, this title addresses the important question: ′What′s Next?′.


Derived from the classic leadership book The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition, this is a concise, focused primer on the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership for students. Grounded in the same extensive research as the best selling The Leadership Challenge, this book uses examples and language to which students in higher education can relate. It also features reflective and critical thinking activities at the end of each chapter to help students engage in each of the Five Practices.Can be used with all levels--from incoming first-year students to outgoing grads and young professionalsExamples from both on-campus and off-campus venues, with particular emphasis on service-learning and effects of leadership in the surrounding community.Provides helpful and useful background on the instrument (Student LPI)

This revised edition of Leadership is Everyone's Business Facilitator's Guide is designed to be used with individual contributors - that is people in organizations who have the capacity to lead and influence others, but don't have formal management responsibilities. This program underlies the authors' philosophy that leadership is not a position or place in organizations or just reserved for a few at the top. In this Workshop, Kouzes and Posner introduce individual contributors to The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership(r): Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart. The Facilitator's Guide includes:* Detailed instructions and a script for conducting a one-day workshop* PowerPoint slides on CD-ROM* Sample copy of the Participant Workbook* Sample copy of the LPI Self* Sample copy of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Article

This full color poster (17" x 22") is the perfect leave-behind prize for participants or reminder tool for organizations that have adopted the Leadership Challenge model. It features The Five Practices[registered] and Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership.

"Challenge Facilitator's Guide" is designed to help extend the knowledge of and experience of The Five Practices. Each of the five main sections of this important resource provides detailed instructions for 'going deep' in Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart. Designed to allow for flexibility, customization, and connection to real business situations, this resource enables facilitators to create lasting, impactful leadership journeys for participants at all levels.

What do you call something that has endured through nearly 30 years of practice and the scrutiny of research?

The Truth!

Ken Blanchard, best–selling author of The One–Minute Manager

From academia to government, healthcare to technology, faith–based to community advocacy organizations, The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® have stood the test of time as the world s most trusted source for becoming a better leader. Through decades of research, hundreds of personal interviews, analysis of thousands of case studies and millions of survey responses, authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have discovered what over two million worldwide readers of their modern classic, The Leadership Challenge, know as well: The Five Practices provide a proven, evidence–based model for bringing out the leadership potential in anyone, at any level, in any organization, who accepts the leadership challenge.


Over the last twenty–five years, The Leadership Challenge established a reputation as a research–driven, evidence–based leadership development model with a simple, yet profound, principle at its core: leadership is a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. For leaders who have completed either The Leadership Challenge® Workshop, The Leadership Is Everyone′s Business Workshop, or the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), this new program addresses the important question:

"What′s Next?"

Responding to your toughest leadership development challenges, this innovative and flexible program encourages leaders to remain focused on what they learned during their original exposure to The Five Practices® model, while challenging them to continue implementing their new skills and behaviors over time. The Challenge Continues modules are intended for brief follow–up/refresher sessions that will move leaders beyond their foundational Leadership Challenge knowledge. Participants are asked to share and reflect on the small wins they have experienced since their Leadership Challenge journey began, and then practice specific skills and behaviors that will prepare them for them for the next leg of their journey. They are also shown how to identify opportunities to expand their use of The Practices for team member development and the influencing of broader spheres of their work units or organizations.The Challenge Continues includes five 90–minute modules (one for each of The Five Practices) along with delivery instructions for both the traditional classroom/coaching settings or the virtual classroom. This comprehensive Facilitator′s Guide provides everything needed to prepare for and deliver a high–impact leadership development program for leaders at all levels. It includes step–by–step instructions and customizable presentation scripts for conducting the powerful sessions. In addition, this package contains a flash drive with all of the Facilitator Guide content, forms, and presentation slides; sample copies of the five Participant Workbooks are also provided. A bonus section at the end of the Facilitator′s Guide explores ways in which facilitators can continue to extend their participant′s learning including overviews of other related models (Covey′s Seven Habits, emotional intelligence, leadership ethics, servant leadership, leveraging talents and strengths, storytelling) as well as follow–up activities such as leadership book clubs and how to use Web 2.0/social networking technologies. Built upon a time–tested and evidence–based foundation, The Challenge Continues offers a proven method for developing high–performing leaders in any organization.


Use this scoring software with the Student LPI paper assessment to create reports for individual students or for an entire group. First, manually enter the data from each Student LPI print assessment into the scoring software database. If you required your leaders to request anonymous responses from their observers, you will be able to enter the observer responses without identifying the respondent. From the scoring software you can generate customized Student LPI reports and distribute them to your students electronically as PDFs or in print.

The third edition of the Student Leadership Practices Inventory Scoring Software includes the following features:

  • Updated leadership behavior statements to match Student LPI Self and Observer print inventories
  • Updated icons and logos on the reports
  • Updated norming data for the percentile ranking grids
  • PDF of the Student LPI module from The Student Leadership Challenge Facilitation and Activity Guide
    (2013)
  • Sample Student LPI 360 Individual Report
  • Sample Student LPI 360 Reassessment Report
  • Sample Student LPI 360 Group Report
  • Information about other Student Leadership Challenge products, programs, and events
The updated software is compatible with 64–bit machines and with the Student LPI 360 Online for customers who want to backload data from the online inventory to use in the scoring software.

Minimum technical requirements: Windows® PC only, Microsoft® Windows 95 through Windows 8, CD–ROM drive.

Refreshed and Updated for the Next Generation Leader. Over the last twenty-five years, "The Leadership Challenge" established a reputation as a research-driven, evidence-based leadership development model with a simple, yet profound, principle at its core: leadership is a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. In this new edition of "The Leadership Challenge[registered] Workshop", bestselling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner advocate for broadening the reach of our leadership development efforts. In today's challenging and complex workplace, leaders are desperately needed from the front lines to the executive suites. The secret of high-performing organizations is that everyone within them knows that leadership-at-all-levels is expected and rewarded, and that individuals everywhere are responsible for making extraordinary things happen. This comprehensive Facilitator's Guide provides everything needed to prepare for and deliver a high-impact leadership development program for leaders at all levels.
It includes an introduction to the model, detailed preparation instructions and checklists, and a customizable presentation script for conducting the standard 2-day workshop. In addition, this package also contains a Five Practices/Ten Commitments poster and flash drive that contains all the Facilitator's Guide content, forms, and presentation slides, and a DVD with all video content. Sample copies of all participant material are also included in the package - Participant Workbook, An Introduction to The Five Practices Workbook, Practice Book, Vision Book, Values Cards, and The Leadership Challenge Card. What's New About This Edition? It includes: participant Workbook with contemporary, colorful design; ten new video cases; online pre-work; innovative participant take-away materials; and, flexible, customizable delivery options. "Jim and Barry's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership and The Leadership Challenge[registered] Workshop represent an evidence-based approach that will inspire any leader to become far more effective and successful by creating a work environment where there is trust, teamwork, and a shared vision.
This workshop is a must for the leader of any organization seeking to enhance employee engagement in their quest to be the best. (John E. Sindoni, SPHR, senior vice president, Human Resources, Meridian Health). "I recommend The Leadership Challenge[registered] Workshop to anyone who is responsible for developing leaders in their organization. The curriculum includes a deep immersion into the Leadership Challenge model, tools, and exercises that enable facilitators to successfully develop their future leaders". (Mark Ronk, Head of Training and Development, Nestle USA). "The Leadership Challenge[registered] Workshop provides a clear picture of the art of leadership. Whether your leaders are new out of the gate or later in the race, this program is a must have for every step of their leadership journey". (Sterling Gross, Executive and Leadership Development, Luxottica Retail).

This 24-page article is perfect for leaders with limited time and budget. It provides a concise overview of Kouzes and Posner's model and overall thoughts on leadership in the realm of the legal sector. Ideal for orienting readers to the Five Practices model at the beginning of a workshop or coaching session, the piece contains two Leadership Challenge case studies drawn from government and the public sector, a short description of the Five Practices, a section on "Learning to Lead", and background information on the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)


Expanding on the "Encouraging the Heart" segment of their bestselling
The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have now devised
The Encouragement Index, a 21–item survey that measures how frequently a leader engages in encouraging behavior. It is designed to be a personal development tool which will give leaders an idea of their strengths and opportunities for improvement in the practice of Encouraging the Heart.
The Encouragement Index is also a component of the
Encouraging the Heart Facilitator′s Guide, sold separately, which covers administration and debriefing of the Index, as well as tips and techniques for incorporating the existing book and workbook into a short workshop based on the Index.