John Eric Adair Books

The ultimate tool for improving team performance and ensuring that your business goals are achieved.You may have mastered every other skill a manager could possibly learn, but none of that will matter if you have not learnt to build and sustain your team effectively to begin with. Most tasks in modern business are carried out by teams, so the skill of ensuring that your team works to the best of its abilities is vital if you are to achieve your business aims. In Effective Teambuilding John Adair, Britain's foremost expert on leadership training, teaches you everything you need to know to enable you to: Select the right people to create the strong foundations your team needs Encourage your team members to work well together and use each other's skills to complement their own Sustain group morale and motivation Raise standards of performance throughout the team

Successful management and leadership has never been a greater challenge. Time is stretched, your people are highly motivated but can be highly demanding and business is competitive. Whether you are a first-time manager or experienced leader, straightforward, practical advice on best practice can be hard to find. John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Leadership and Management will help you find the answers and inspiration you need. The book provides accessible advice from one of the world's best-known and most sought after authorities on leadership and management - advice you can put into practice immediately.

In this practical guide to motivation the author presents a set of strategies for motivating high performance teams and individuals. Case studies and exercises are included to help readers relate the principles and put them to productive use.

In Effective Innovation, John Adair looks at both creativity and innovation, generating new ideas and bringing them to market. His seven habits of successful thinkers provides a compelling framework for developing your own productive thinking skills.

Here in one book is a brilliant summary of all John Adair's ideas, advice and techniques This book is a goldmine of ideas, advice and techniques from one of the world's leading writers on management and leadership. It brings together all of John Adair's thinking on leadership, teambuilding, creativity and innovation, problem-solving, motivation, communication and time-management. It is a comprehensive master-class on: Growing into an effective and inspiring leader How to build a cohesive and responsive team Techniques of creativity and innovation Analysis and decision-making Mastering the art of good communication Managing your own time, managing yourself Clearly written and presented, the book is packed with practical guidance and insights, helpful charts, diagrams and forms. A must-have for all managers and leaders.

John Adair, Britain's foremost expert on leadership training, shows how every manager can learn to lead. He draws upon numerous examples of leadership in action - commercial, military and historical - to pinpoint the essential requirements.

This book is a goldmine of ideas, advice and techniques from one of the world’s leading thinkers on management and leadership. Reformatted and with a new foreword by John Adair, it distills in one book the best of all of his thinking and writing on effective leadership, teambuilding, creativity and innovation, problem-solving, motivation and communication.Clearly written and presented, the book is packed with practical guidance and shrewd insights, with a large number of valuable charts, diagrams and forms. It is a repackaged and updated edition of the best-selling John Adair Handbook .

In a dynamic book sector such as `Leadership', it's easy to lose sight of the basics - the timeless concepts that continue to underpin much of the new thinking on the behaviour of leaders. One of the UK's best-known business thinkers, John Adair has distilled his experience into 20 key concepts, including: * The art of sharing decisions; * Integrity; * Warmth and humanity; * Critical testing; and * Practical wisdom. For anyone seeking a deeper knowledge of the theories and issues surrounding leadership as a management function, Lessons in Leadership is a series of reflections on the fundamentals of leadership, all designed to challenge and inspire the reader. In the midst of current global concerns about the quality of leadership, the book is both a practical handbook and also a contribution to the ongoing debate about what kind of leadership we should be encouraging in today's volatile and uncertain world. Leadership and change go hand in hand - but during times of change, the basic building blocks of leadership remain the same. Regardless of the size of the team to be led - whether it is five or 5,000 - Lessons in Leadership offers guidance, inspiration, reassurance and insight

An explanation of the key principles for developing thinking skills and applying them creatively and productively to every challenge. It examines: understanding the way your mind works; adopting a structured approach to reach the best decision; assessing risk and generating successful options for action; using brainstorming and lateral thinking to increase your creativity; and creating a personal strategy to become a more effective practical thinker.

"A path to effective leadership using the wisdom of the ancient philosopher."--Provided by publisher.