This Field Guide offers a rich variety of academic approaches to facilitate leadership development in adults. It will also appeal to leadership academics and postgraduate students, such as Masters students in business and psychology, and those focusing on careers in human resources and education.

Contents: 1. Beyond the ‘spider’s web’: an introduction to The Field Guide to Leadership Development Steve Kempster, Arthur F. Turner and Gareth Edwards Part I Relational based approaches 2. A Practice-Based Approach to Developing Ethically Responsible Leaders Donna Ladkin 3. Collegiate Leadership Competition: An Opportunity for Deliberate Practice on the Road to Expertise Scott J. Allen, Arthur J. Schwartz and Daniel M. Jenkins 4. Going for GOLD: Leadership development through a quasi-non-executive board in the SME context Stewart Barnes, Sue Smith and Steve Kempster: Part II Narrative-based approaches 5. Learning to Lead: Biographical Inquiry through Goolsby Interviews James Campbell Quick, Keri DeCay, Navadha Modha, and John L. Goolsby: 6. Leadership development using the poetic voice of care ethics Andrew Armitage 7. Using Greek Mythology in Leadership Development – the role of archetypes for self-reflection Doris Schedlitzki, Carol Jarvis and Janice MacInnes 8. Tents’: Constructing a narrative of leadership learning Steve Kempster Part III Artefact based approaches 9. Leadership artefacts: a process of storytelling within newly formed groups. Emma Watton and Phillipa Chapman 10. Leadership Development through Videography Jon Billsberry and Carolyn P. Egri 11. Use of multi-ethnic, contemporary and historical finger puppets Arthur F. Turner 12. Seeing beyond the usual - The Social Photo Matrix as an Experiential Method of Leadership Development Wadii Serhane, Sigrid Endres and Jürgen Weibler Part IV Place-based approaches 13. Developing the practice of framing…softly, softly catchee monkey Fiona Kennedy and Ralph Bathurst Part V Reflections on practice 14. Facing the Monsters: Embracing Liminality in Leadership Development Beverley Hawkins and Gareth Edwards 15. Leadership Exchange: contextualised learning about how leadership is accomplished and personalised leadership development Jonathan Gosling and Simon Western 16. Walking with Wordsworth: Exploring leadership as purpose through The Prelude Steve Kempster and Simon Bainbridge 17. ‘Collaboratory’ as leadership development Steve Kempster, Eric Guthey and Mary Uhl-Bien Index

'This practical, creative and engaging guide brings experiential leadership development firmly into the 21st Century. The exercises involving planks, barrels and ropes that characterised a generation of outdoor (and indoor) leadership education have been replaced by a conceptually rigorous and effective range of approaches founded on principles of reflection, theory, and practice. With chapters by leading authorities in the field, this book provides an invaluable resource for both new and experienced leadership and management educators that will enrich and enhance any intervention.' --Richard Bolden, University of the West of England, UK'The book addresses a problematic gap in the leadership portfolio: on one side is the academy developing new theories of leadership for the changing organisational context; on the other side, is leadership development practice producing a proliferation of activities grounded in ''what works''. This book creates an important bridge linking the two. Authors who are academics, but who are also leadership development practitioners, give the reader exciting new ideas about the nature of leadership, and then translate these directly into practical leadership development approaches.' --Kim Turnbull James, Cranfield University, UK'This has a powerful list of authors, with new-comers complementing big and established names. It is good to see that this book is about developing leadership and not about developing 'leaders'. It is also good to see ethics featuring prominently. Too many 'leadership' books concentrate on making money for the C-Suite, almost irrespective of ethics and social responsibility. This book takes this crucial issue seriously. The dramatic and discursive tone to the book is potent. So, if you are at the top, you now have fewer excuses.' --Ken Parry, Deakin Business School, Australia