Develop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you or the job you were made to have.
Develop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you or the job you were made to have.
A recent Harvard Business Review article outlining a study of over 17,000 leaders found that although, on average, people begin to supervise others at age 30, most do not start to receive formal leadership training until their forties.
Dont wait for training that doesnt come until its too late. The Five-Week Leadership Challenge is an invaluable guide to help any aspiring leader begin a daily practice of exercises and challenges designed to develop and expand your innate leadership ability as quickly as possible.
Patrick Leddin has served as a U.S. Army airborne, infantry, and ranger-qualified officer, founded and ran successful businesses, and trained thousands of leaders. In The Five-Week Leadership Challenge, Leddin shows you how to quickly build standout leadership skills so that when the next opportunity comes along, you're the only person for the job.
The Five-Week Leadership Challenge:
- Includes 35 daily challenges designed to quickly develop standout leadership skills.
- Outlines the leadership habits you can practice regularly that get you noticedand promoted, based on Leddins experience training and consulting thousands of leaders all over the world.
- Encourages you to share your completion of the leadership challenge on social media to exponentially expand your networking opportunities and receive bonus content and access to additional author tools.
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WEEK 3 DETERMINE PRIORITIES |
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Day 15 Recognize Strategy |
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Day 22 Encourage Ownership |
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Day 24 Understand Relationships |
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Day 28 Hit Pause and Engage |
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WEEK 5 INSPIRE PERFORMANCE |
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Day 29 Understand Inconsistency |
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Day 30 Practice Abundance |
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Day 31 Forgo (Some) Happiness |
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Day 33 Unleash Excitement |
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Day 35 Be a Tough Act to Follow |
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| The Journey Continues |
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| Appendix A |
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| Appendix B |
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| About the Author |
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Patrick Leddin has benefited from both hands-on leadership and management experience coupled with academic rigor and expertise. He served as a U.S. Army airborne, infantry, ranger-qualified officer, worked as a Project Manager at KPMG Consulting, and co-started and ran a Inc. 5000 recognized consulting firm. His speaking engagements and consulting work have allowed him to partner with clients and present to countless audiences in the United States, Canada, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Great Britain, Aruba, Iceland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Guam, and many other countries around the world. In addition to his work at Leddin Group, Patrick is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University.
