The Leadership Readiness Series Prepare Leaders Before Greater Responsibility TestsThem
Greater responsibility changes what leadership requires. The Leadership Readiness Series provides practical resources to help leaders prepare for those demands before gaps in readiness begin affecting people, performance, and results.
The three books can be used together as an integrated leadership development system or individually, depending on the needs of the leader, manager, coach, or organization.
Past Performance and Potential Do Not Equal Readiness
Past performance and leadership potential do not necessarily mean someone is ready for what comes next. Leadership readiness must be developed intentionally.
Ready Before the Role
Understand leadership readiness and the behaviors leaders need as responsibility grows.
The Leadership Readiness Workbook
Put the concepts into practice through reflection, application, and structured development activities.
The Executive Coaching Guide
Give managers, coaches, HR professionals, and leadership development professionals a practical structure for guiding leaders through readiness development.
Together, the three books provide a practical approach for understanding, developing, and strengthening leadership readiness. Use them together as a system or individually based on the needs of the leader or organization.
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Leadership Readiness Workbook
Leadership Readiness Workbook
About the Book
Turn Leadership Insight Into Measurable Action
Knowing what effective leadership looks like is different from consistently demonstrating it when expectations rise and pressure increases. The Leadership Readiness Workbook helps leaders turn insight into deliberate practice and observable behavioral growth.
Designed as the companion to Ready Before the Role, the workbook provides a structured 26-week development process centered on five Leadership Behavioral Patterns: Judgment, Presence, Communication, Accountability, and Development.
The Bradford Leadership Readiness Assessment is used at the beginning, midpoint, and conclusion of the process to help leaders identify priorities and track progress over time.
Structured reflection, real-world application exercises, and a Personal Leadership Development Plan help leaders move from understanding what needs to change to consistently demonstrating it on the job.
The workbook can be used with an executive coach or mentor, or by a leader working independently.
Used with Ready Before the Role and the Executive Coaching Guide, it becomes part of an integrated approach to preparing leaders for greater responsibility.
Executive Coaching Guide
Executive Coaching Guide
About the Book
A Practical Framework for Developing Leadership Readiness
The Executive Coaching Guide gives executive coaches, managers, mentors, and leadership development professionals a practical structure for helping leaders prepare for greater responsibility.
Designed as the companion to Ready Before the Role and the Leadership Readiness Workbook, the guide provides a structured 26-week, 13-session coaching process centered on five Leadership Behavioral Patterns: Judgment, Presence, Communication, Accountability, and Development.
Each session includes questions, reflection prompts, coaching guidance, between-session assignments, and coach notes. The guide also incorporates the Bradford Leadership Readiness Assessment to help identify development priorities and track progress over time.
Whether you are an executive coach, a manager developing direct reports, or a leadership professional supporting development within an organization, the guide provides a practical framework for moving from conversation to measurable action.
Used with Ready Before the Role and the Leadership Readiness Workbook, it completes an integrated approach to preparing leaders for greater responsibility.
Ready Before the Role
Ready Before the Role
About the Book
Preparing Leaders for Greater Responsibility
Leadership responsibility rarely arrives when you feel fully prepared. Expectations increase, visibility expands, and decisions begin carrying more weight. What made a leader successful before may no longer be enough.
Ready Before the Role helps leaders prepare for greater responsibility by strengthening five Leadership Behavioral Patterns: Judgment, Presence, Communication, Accountability, and Development.
The book includes the Bradford Leadership Readiness Assessment and practical tools to help leaders identify development priorities and move from insight to measurable action.
Whether preparing for greater responsibility, stepping into a new leadership role, or developing future leaders within an organization, Ready Before the Role provides a practical foundation for becoming ready before leadership demands increase.
Used with the Leadership Readiness Workbook and the Executive Coaching Guide, it provides the foundation for an integrated approach to preparing leaders for greater responsibility.
Executive Coaching: Perspectives and Practies Across the Field
Practical Perspectives From 13 Executive Coaching Practitioners
John Bradford is one of 13 executive coaching practitioners whose experience and perspectives are featured in this Wiley publication.
Drawing on decades of experience in education, corporate leadership, leadership development, and executive coaching, John shares a principle that has guided his work throughout his career: coaching should help leaders grow, lead more effectively, and achieve meaningful business results.
About the Book
Executive Coaching: Perspectives and Practices Across the Field, published by Wiley, brings together experienced practitioners who share lessons, perspectives, and practical insights from their work coaching leaders and organizations.
The book explores different coaching approaches and real-world experiences, giving executive coaches, leaders, HR professionals, and leadership development professionals practical perspectives they can apply in their own work.
13 Practitioners. Different Perspectives. One Focus: Helping Leaders Succeed.