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Finally, a book that integrates leadership theories, leadership practices, and facilitation skills for those who facilitate the training and development of others.
This comprehensive and integrated resource prepares leadership educators to develop their training and facilitation practice that is informed by theory, imbued with healthy leadership habits, and imparted with time-tested facilitation techniques—particularly experiential learning and reflective dialogue.
There are plenty of resources for those who desire to practice leadership more effectively. What has been absent until now is an extensive and accessible compilation of resources and preparatory materials for those who facilitate the leadership training and development of others. Leadership educators are responsible for preparing the next generations of change-makers to develop the leadership skills and capacities they need to navigate the challenges in the decades ahead. They engage organizations and communities to become the holding environments and learning laboratories that empower connections of meaning and depth, embolden courageous exploration, and enable needed structural and systemic change. Jonathan Kroll offers this book as a resource to help readers become exceptional leadership educators—those who can empower others to enhance their leadership skills, capacities, and efficacy.
Designed to prepare those who are charged with the leadership training and development of others, this book includes: two dozen leadership theories, models, frameworks, and topics; an extensive collection of leadership practices; and tactics for facilitating powerful training experiences that are infused with experiential learning activities and reflective dialogue. Included with each theory and practice (40+) are detailed and easy-to-follow instructions on how to facilitate specific experiential learning activities—along with go-to reflective dialogue questions—that bring the topics to life and ensure this book serves as a practical resource.
Preparing Leadership Educators
A comprehensive guide to theories, practices, and facilitation skills.
Core Components of the Book

Laying a Leadership Foundation
The initial chapters of Preparing Leadership Educators explore the “what” and “who” of leadership. It is important for leadership educators to understand what leadership is and who leadership educators are - as well as the leadership training and development landscape. This introductory section sheds light upon our leadership cast who will be the focus of the remainder of this book.

Leadership Theory

Leadership Practices
Leadership practices inform what we do when leading. Our leadership practice is ultimately derived from the compilation of our daily leadership routines and decisions—our habits. With intentional attention, these can become healthy leadership habits. Albeit not a definitive list, Preparing Leadership Educators, provides a comprehensive list of a dozen-and-a-half leadership practices that can inform our leadership trainings—with tailored experiential learning activities and instructions for each of these practices.

Training & Facilitation Skills
The most amazing and impactful leadership training experiences are developmental not because of luck or randomness. It is because exceptional leadership educators utilize a grounded approach to craft and facilitate leadership-developmental training experiences. Without the foundational facilitation tactics and techniques, though, we are limited in our abilities to train others in leadership. Part IV of Preparing Leadership Educators focuses on how to craft facilitated experiences and then how to facilitate these trainings with dynamism so that participants’ leadership learning can be maximized.
Preparing Leadership Educators
A comprehensive guide to theories, practices, and facilitation skills.
Table of Contents
Part I: Laying Our Leadership Foundation
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Leadership: Who and What
Part II: Leadership Theories, Models, Frameworks, and Themes
Chapter 3: Industrial Leadership Theories
Chapter 4: Postindustrial Leadership Theories
Chapter 5: Contemporary Leadership Theories
Chapter 6: Leadership Themes and Topics
PART III: Leadership Practices, Skills, and Competencies
Chapter 7: Cognitive Leadership Practices
Chapter 8: Emotive Leadership Practices
Chapter 9: Cooperative Leadership Practices
Chapter 10: Generative Leadership Practices
PART IV: Facilitating Leadership Trainings
Chapter 11: Experiential Learning and Reflective Dialogue
Chapter 12: Creating a "Training Story"
Chapter 13: Training and Facilitation Practices
Conclusion & Appendix
Chapter 14: Conclusion
Appendix A: Praxis Grid (Theories and Practices in Relationship to Experiential Learning Activities)



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About the Author
Jonathan Kroll
Founder, Executive Director, and Master Trainer
Jonathan Kroll is a leadership educator and entrepreneur. He began his career in higher education (Student Affairs) by focusing on leadership development, community engagement, and reflection initiatives. He has co-founded two leadership training businesses and, over the last decade, Jonathan has facilitated hundreds of leadership workshops, retreats, trainings, conference presentations, and classes to 1,000s of participants across 5 continents.
Jonathan serves as the Program Director and Assistant Teaching Professor for the Professional Leadership Studies program at the University of Rhode Island. He also founded and serves as the Executive Director and a Master Trainer for Leadership Trainer—a Boston-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that focuses exclusively and explicitly on trainer preparation.


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