The Leadership Pill
What If A Pill Could Make You A Better Leader?
How can you become a more successful manager, a stronger team leader, and a motivator who gets the best results from a group? Ken Blanchard and Marc Muchnick's The Leadership Pill provides the answer. In the bestselling tradition of Whale Done! and The One Minute Manager, their entertaining and inspiring book and program is a parable about the competition between two leaders with totally different management styles—a story that reveals the ingredients of truly effective leadership.
Consider this tantalising possibility: What if there were a pill that could actually stimulate the natural powers of the mind and body to provide leadership? In the story, an amazing new pill heightens one leader's powers, but contains the wrong ingredients, stimulating him in an obsessive and shortsighted direction with disastrous results. In contrast, the Effective Leader, working without a pill, proclaims that "only through sustainability can our teams remain motivated and successful." An inspiring and supportive leader, he supplies the right ingredients, earning his team's respect and trust with a blend of integrity, partnership, and affirmation. The hard-won result is a highly motivated team producing consistent top performance and genuine success. Ultimately it is recognised that "leadership for a lifetime" is much easier to digest than a pill for leaders looking for a quick fix.
The Leadership Pill workshop is a half-day exploration of the "key ingredients" for successful leadership. Based on an innovative video recap of the book, it guides participants through real-life consideration of how these ingredients are demonstrated in their workplace generally, and by themselves in particular. As an option, the "Preferred Leader Assessmeent" self-scoring questionnaire can be used to identify and focus on those ingredients which would benefit from continued development.
Outcomes Achieved
- Understanding of the three key ingredients for effective and sustainable performance improvement
- Improved staff competence and commitment
- Improved partnership and trust among employees and management
- Improved employee satisfaction and participation
