The Soft Skills of Leadership: Navigating with Confidence and Humility

by Wanda S. Maulding Green, Edward E. Leonard

Overview

Much like Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Maulding-Green and Leonard have, in Leadership Intelligence: The Journey to Your True North, postulated a theory regarding the age old question, ‘are leaders born or are leaders made?’ This theory is predicated on the idea that there is a genetic predisposition toward leadership via the vehicle of imprinting.



The five critical factors which undergird the tenets of Leadership Intelligence, are delineated and developed through the lens of the soft skills of a leader. There is further clarification as to why some leaders seem to have ‘a greater intensity’ of these factors than their peers.



To aid the reader in relating to the theory, a conceptual model based on a GPS is threaded throughout each chapter interweaving both examples and understandable content. The model relates keeping the organization moving in a true north fashion. The final chapters reveal how a leader can develop or enhance these skills and how he/she can avoid leadership derailment, due to neglecting them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475849578
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/15/2019
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	6.29(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Wanda Maulding Green is currently a leadership faculty member at the University of South Alabama. She has served leadership roles as a classroom teacher, coach, assistant principal and principal in K-12 schools and also as a department chair, associate dean and dean at the university level.



Edward Leonard is a retired school superintendent. He has done extensive adjunct work in educational leadership for the University of Southern Mississippi, Southeastern Louisiana University, William Carey University and currently serves as an adjunct instructor for the University of South Alabama.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1- Leadership Intelligence and Imprinting

Chapter 2- Navigating Leadership

Chapter 3- In 500 Feet, Stay Right: Leader Credibility

Chapter 4- Recalculating: Leader Competence

Chapter 5- Satellite Reception Lost: Leader Inspiration

Chapter 6- You Have Arrived at Your Destination: Leader Vision

Chapter 7- Route Guidance Suggested: Leader Emotional Intelligence

Chapter 8- Updating Your Internal GPS: Building Leadership Intelligence

Chapter 9- A Rough Road: Avoiding Leadership Derailment

Chapter 10- Remember, It’s All About the Journey

Appendix: Leadership Intelligence Web Site

About the Authors

Index

Editorial Reviews

At the heart of every school, organization, strategic plan, vision and mission statement is leadership. The success of all those depend not only on leadership but the ability to grow your leadership skills. Leadership Intelligence...The Soft Skills of Leadership presents research in a practical manner that will allow every leader the tools necessary to grow and lead a successful organization in today's fast-paced changing world!

Tori Holloway

Wherever district leaders may be in their personal journeys, the second edition of The Soft Skills of Leadership: Navigating with Confidence and Humility offers valuable research on the importance of nurturing leaders’ soft skills and instruction on how to enhance these skills.

School Administrator

The Soft Skills of Leadership is an excellent resource for leaders who seek to promote success built upon a foundation of proven leadership skills. With conceptual models and authentic examples, this book is a valuable reference and reflective guide which supports confidently leading while inspiring trust and mutual respect.

Martha L. Peek

The Soft Skills of Leadership is a great resource for any school leader. Having this information at the beginning of my school leadership career over 20 years ago would have been a tremendous help! I have witnessed first-hand Drs. Maulding Green and Leonard presenting their research of this topic to school leaders many times. They are truly transforming the mindset of these leaders. This work is a must-read for leaders who want to get better at their craft and who want to also transform their approach to leadership.

Ben Burnett

The Soft Skills of Leadership is an essential read for leaders. It provides a model of leadership and focuses on the specific fundamental leadership traits of credibility, competence, inspiration, vision, and emotional intelligence. Leaders who take this information to heart will be better able to gain the trust and respect of their colleagues and lead their unit toward a shared vision.

Susan Gordon-Hickey