Key Features

• Presents the material within a cohesive framework that encourages emerging leaders to respond to challenges and opportunities in thoughtful, analytical, practical, and ethical ways
• Organized around nine leadership styles (or behaviors) that could increase the odds of a leader’s success in a given situation
• Covers the prevalent and mainstream leadership theories in the context of connective leadership’s emphasis on practical skill development
• In addition to classic theories, also covers recent research and theories, such as free-trait theory (Chapter 6: “Social Style”)
• Written in a readable, story-based voice to capture and hold onto the reader’s attention
• Emphasizes experiential learning and problem-based learning exercises
• Fully reflects how we interact and lead in a post-pandemic world, such as the increase in collaboration overload and loneliness among workers (Section 8.5 and 8.6) and new perspectives on neurodiversity (Section 7.5)
• Over 30 embedded links to streaming videos curated and kept continuously up to date by the author enhance and enrich hybrid and online courses, engage students, further prepare learners for class discussions, and reinforce or augment many of the presented topics
• In addition to highlighting real-life leaders, such as Amanda Gorman (Section 5.1) or Hank Green (Section 10.1), the book offers examples and stories often drawn from familiar situations, such as sports teams or summer jobs
• Supportive learning structure:
• Opening situations are short organizational scenarios and situational factors that call for the leadership behaviors about to be covered
• Pause and Reflect feature immediately follows the chapter opening situation. They also appear throughout the chapter to help students connect described concepts to their own personal experiences
• Learning Objectives that begin each main head section preview the material to come and prepare students to learn
• Discussion features with embedded links to streaming videos and podcasts in each chapter further enhance the book’s theoretical framework, present recent research, and illustrate applications
• Key Takeaways reflect the preceding section’s Learning Objectives and summarize key ideas in bullet-point fashion. Key Takeaways encourage learners to consolidate the information just encountered into a discrete “chunk” that encourages understanding and enhances retention
• Self-Assessments sprinkled throughout reinforce the book’s emphasis on self-awareness, prompt self-reflections, and help the reader build a baseline for personal development
• Case Study in each chapter provides a brief case study with discussion questions for individual or group work with answer guidelines in the instructor’s manual
• Exercises of varying length and complexity appear at the end of each chapter, and some include embedded links to streaming videos with answer guidelines in the instructor’s manual
• Additional exercises are provided in the instructor’s manual
• Chapter Summary recaps main concepts and pulls together the preceding chapters “big picture”
• Customizable