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The Student Leadership Challenge Facilitation and Activity Guide The Student Leadership Challenge Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal James Kouzes and Barry Posner (with Beth High & Gary M. Morgan) San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2013; Activity Guide: 196 pages, $34.67 (softcover); Journal: 190 pages, $12.74 (softcover)
As authors, James Kouzes and Barry Posner state in the opening of both of the reviewed books, The Student Leadership Challenge® is about how students mobilize others to make extraordinary things happen. It is based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® model, which began as a research project in 1983 and focused on what leaders did when they were at their "personal best." Their research found that when leaders are at their personal best they: (a) Model the Way; (b) Inspire a Shared Vision; (c) Challenge the Process; (d) Enable Others to Act, and; (e) Encourage the Heart (Kouzes & Posner, 2008).
Each of the Five Practices has two essential actions and six leadership behaviors students should employ to make great things happen. The authors refer to the essential actions as the Ten Commitments of Leadership; and the six leadership behaviors that demonstrate specific ways students can embody each of the Five Practices.
Kouzes and Posner have created an entire suite of resources with the purpose of assisting students to use and develop The Five Practices. One of the authors' beliefs...