Approaching leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors, the authors introduce powerful cases that clearly demonstrate how individual leaders are able to accomplish the extraordinary. Using real-life examples, each of the five scenarios presented highlight one of The Five Practices:

• Model the Way: A vice president at financial services provider, Farm Credit Services comes up with creative, self-revealing method for performance evaluations and sets the example for others by going first in receiving tough feedback, gaining more trust and credibility in the process.
• Inspire a Shared Vision: A director of student development and leadership at Stanford University links the university's mission to a larger purpose. Given a bigger picture, the students enlist others, and create a ripple effect that reaches communities around the world.
• Challenge the Process: The president of Sinai-Grace Hospital identifies several opportunities for improvement, gets started making real changes, and as a result the hospital experiences an outstanding turnaround.
• Enable Others to Act: When technology company RenGen experiences the difficult problem of rising health care costs, a committee of employees is empowered to research the problem and come up of with solution for the entire organization.
• Encourage the Heart: A senior manager at FedEx recognizes individuals in large and small ways, engages other supervisors in the process and creates a personal reward system that fosters a strong feeling of community.

Backed by twenty years of original research with data from over one million leaders, The Leadership Challenge is comprehensive leadership development program. This must-have instructional tool is a perfect introduction or refresher course for your leaders.

The DVD runs 26 minutes.