University Assignment: Leadership Challenges Program Literature Review

This report presents a literature review centered on the Leadership Challenge Program, exploring its core objectives, curriculum, and impact on leadership development within organizations. The review begins with an introduction to the program, discussing its focus on measurable and learnable leadership behaviors. It delves into the program's aims, including fostering a winning attitude, developing leadership skills, increasing personal effectiveness, promoting team development, and enhancing communication skills. The report then examines the program's impact, highlighting its adaptability across various organizational levels and its modular nature, allowing for customization. Furthermore, the report discusses the lessons learned and measures of success, referencing the case study of Sonoma Leadership Systems, and emphasizing the importance of flexibility and a consultative approach. The review incorporates multiple references to support its analysis and concludes by summarizing the key findings and implications of the Leadership Challenge Program for leadership development and organizational success.

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Table of Contents
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Leadership Challenges.................................................................................................................3
Overall Objective of the Leadership Challenge Program............................................................4
Figure No 1: Leadership Challenges Program.............................................................................5
Impact of the Leadership Program..................................................................................................6
Lessons Learnt and Measure of Success.........................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Literature Review
Introduction
Leadership Challenge Program is focused on the behavioral preferences, tendencies
among the leadership, and the efficiency of the different kinds of the preferences in both the
short term as well as the long term. Leadership Challenge Programs can thus be said to as the
understanding of the dynamics of leadership that is presented the understanding of the variety of
different psychological instrument results and the way they reveal the individual’s approach to
leadership challenge in a number of different scenarios. Leadership challenge programs generally
addresses different kinds of the change, decision making as well as different kinds of conflict
resolution are addressed (Nielsen and Taris 2019). The literature review has identified an
discussed about Leadership Challenge Programs in the most smart and efficient manner. The
review has discussed in detail about the curriculum of the leadership program and also talked
about the different kinds of the complex organizational problems.
Leadership Challenges
The leadership challenges approaches leadership as something that is measurable,
learnable as well as teachable set of behaviors. This kind of behaviors are considered to be
extraordinary in nature as because, the practice of these behaviors constantly ensures the creation
of different kinds of capable and efficient business leaders who are free of taking different kinds
of challenges (Adner 2016). Therefore it can be said that taking up effective challenges in
business leads to the formation of effective and efficient business challenges that can be helpful
for the success of the business organization. The challenges of the leadership can be applied to
each and anyone and is not dependent on someone being junior or holding a small post in any

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kind of business organizations. The leadership challenge curriculum is infinitely scalable to any
kind of business organizations, whether they are small, large or medium in their number.
Leadership constantly presents different kinds of the challenges to a leader and also acts as a
main hurdle or test to their challenges (Johnson 2017). According to, Kickbusch Cassels and Liu
(2016) the following challenges surely present a tough time to the leaders but on the other hand
presents the best opportunity to the leaders to ensure their own professional growth. Being a
leader itself is a huge challenge for the employees working in the business organization. There
are three different kinds of challenges that the leaders generally face. They are External
Challenges, Internal challenges and the challenges that are created within the roles of the
leadership. These challenges cause are both the source of advantage as well as the source of
disadvantage for the management of the business organization.
Overall Objective of the Leadership Challenge Program
The leadership challenges program can be one of the best sources for the organization to
ensure the change in the mindset of the employees. The implementation of the leadership
challenges program helps the employees to gain the necessary leadership qualities that can help
them to turn into extraordinary business leaders (Grubb 2015). The transformation of the
employees into the business leaders helps the organization to ensure the increase of business
productivity and also ensure the professional development f the employees as experienced
business leaders.

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Figure No 1: Leadership Challenges Program
Source: (Adner 2016)
The aims and objectives of the Leadership Challenges Program are as follows;
a. Winning Attitude- The leader must have a winning attitude in him which can help him
to ensure his success in the professional front as well as ensure the productivity of the
business. The winning attitude of the leaders also helps them to become the idols for a
large number of other employees in the organization.
b. Leadership Skills- The leadership skills of the employees can be attained in the
leadership challenges program. the leadership challenges program. The better the skills of
the leader, the better will be the chances of the leaders to ensure business success. The
leadership skills of the employees are important to ensure the success of the business.
c. Increase in the personal effectiveness and Awareness- Being a leader helps in the
growth of the personal effectiveness and awareness of the individuals. Leadership brings

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responsibility with it and the responsibility brings additional pressure and effectiveness
among the individuals. Therefore the role of the leader is always to ensure the success of
the business.
d. Team Development- The role of the leader is to ensure the increase in the business
productivity. The better the productivity, the more will be the chances of business
attaining success in the market. The leaders in an organization try to develop a team in
order to ensure the success of the business in a proper manner.
e. Communication Skills- Communication is one of the most primary skills that needs to
be addressed by the management of the business in order to ensure success of the
business. The leaders will have to create channels of communication in order to keep a
constant touch with both the employees and the customers of the business organization.
Impact of the Leadership Program
The leadership Challenge perspectives are beyond the reach of different kinds of
organizational limits. This includes the limits of small, medium as well as large scale business
organizations. Due to its modular nature, the program can be customized in a variety of formats
to meet an organization's particular leadership needs. For example, it can be adapted for an
executive overview; it can be presented as an l-, 2- or 3-day workshop for Senior through Line
managers; and it can become a l-day program for Emerging Leaders or a modular program for
Individual contributors. As a consultative leadership partner, Sonoma Leadership Systems can
custom tailor the curriculum to meet most organizational objectives.

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Lessons Learnt and Measure of Success
The case study has discussed the case related to that of Sonoma Leadership Systems. The
management of Sonoma Leadership systems has found out the flexibility needed to easily
achieve the leadership challenge within the organization (Page 2016). According to, Alvarez
(2016) the management has developed a consultative approach in order to gain success in the
challenge program involving the top scale leadership in the organization. The management of the
business has been impressed with the capability of the Leadership Challenge to easily adapt to
the changing climate of the business and the changes happening in the context of the business
(Le Fevre and Robinson 2015). On the other hand a great expertise in the following research area
shows that the time when the leaders deliberately and frequently practice the leadership
behaviors measured by The Leadership Practices Inventory, the results are: greater leader
credibility, constituent loyalty, team performance, and positive workplace attitudes.

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References
Adner, R., 2016. Navigating the leadership challenges of innovation ecosystems. MIT Sloan
Management Review, 58(1).
Alvarez, A., 2016. Executive Leadership Challenges Implementing Systemic Change Under
Conditions of Litigated Reform. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership &
Governance, 40(2), pp.131-151.
Grubb, W.N., 2015. Leadership challenges in high schools: Multiple pathways to success.
Routledge.
Johnson, C.E., 2017. Meeting the ethical challenges of leadership: Casting light or shadow. Sage
Publications.
Kickbusch, I., Cassels, A. and Liu, A., 2016. New directions in governing the global health
domain-leadership challenges for WHO (No. BOOK). The Graduate Institute of International
and Development Studies, Global Health Programme.
Le Fevre, D.M. and Robinson, V.M., 2015. The interpersonal challenges of instructional
leadership: Principals’ effectiveness in conversations about performance issues. Educational
Administration Quarterly, 51(1), pp.58-95.
Nielsen, K. and Taris, T.W., 2019. Leading well: Challenges to researching leadership in
occupational health psychology–and some ways forward. Work & Stress, 33(2), pp.107-118.

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Page, M.B., 2016. Public leadership: Navigating leadership challenges and operating in service
of the common good in an interconnected world. International Journal of Public
Leadership, 12(2), pp.112-128.