Discovering Leadership- Vantage Learning Platform

Designing Your Success

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• A student dashboard offers easy access to text content and visually tracks progress on assignments and assessments.
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• Assignable Knowledge Checks (with helpful hints) provide formative assessments after each major section of text content to reinforce retention of key concepts.
• Critical Thinking Checks and Chapter Quizzes provide summative assessments at the end of each chapter to measure progress and long-term retention.
• Assignable video activities build critical thinking while consistently engaging students in an interactive application of text content.

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• Customizable Learning Management System (LMS) Integration. Our approach to integration empowers you to drive students to the content you want them to see in your LMS immediately following Single Sign On (SSO). In addition, automatic grade sync and full gradebook integration options can bolster timesaving, streamlined access to all your course content.
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KEY FEATURES OF DISCOVERING LEADERSHIP: DESIGNING YOUR SUCCESS, SECOND EDITION

New to this Edition:

• New Your Why and What for Leading Chapter prompts students to consider their reasons for leading (their “why”) and the world in which they want to lead (their “what”), which together make up their purpose.
• New DEI by Design sections in every chapter highlight important concepts and integrate them into effective leadership practices, broadening the range of student capacity and efficacy.
• New topics and tools to address current issues, such as compassion, empathy, mindfulness, identity, vulnerability, both/and thinking, and crisis leadership.
• Extensive updates referencing classic and current research add further venues to explore for readers.
  

Key Features:

• Two foundational themes emphasized across all chapters of this book:
  • The purposeful design of leadership
  • Developing core competencies to face an unpredictable future. 
• Unique design-based framework aligned with the definition of leadership, engages students in the purposeful, mindful design of their own leadership.
• Practical examples, tools, and an inspirational tone that position students to want to take on leadership roles and continue their leadership learning journey.
• CORE Attribute Builders consist of engaging, experiential activities that students can actively work on to develop their confidence, optimism, resilience, and engagement.
• Skill Builder Activities are self-directed activities, tested for learning success in and out of real classrooms, in which students can develop important skills and gain richer understanding of specific concepts.
• Leadership that Makes a Difference features profile leaders that have had an impact, many of whom students will find unexpected, to broaden students’ conception of who is a leader and what it means to make a difference.
• Leadership by Design introduces simple yet powerful principles from the design field that leaders can apply to increase their influence and efficacy.
• A unique section on designing the future highlights cutting-edge topics such as fostering a culture of innovation, entrepreneurial leadership, and seeing the long-term and big picture with sustainability and systems.
• Myth or Reality? features examine perceptions and misconceptions of leadership and commonly held beliefs through established research and practice.
• Reflection Questions prompt deeper thinking and discussion about the topics.