The Standard

A title can make you a manager. Your actions determine whether anyone considers you a leader.

THE STANDARD: 52 Weeks to Earn the Title of Leader is a practical leadership development journey designed for new managers, supervisors, emerging leaders, and anyone determined to become the kind of leader people respect, trust, and want to follow.

Instead of overwhelming you with complicated theories, THE STANDARD focuses on one powerful leadership principle each week for an entire year.

Through 52 lessons built around qualities such as character, ownership, discipline, courage, trust, accountability, communication, resilience, empowerment, and legacy, you will learn how great leadership looks-and how it feels to the people you lead.

Each chapter includes:

• A defining leadership principle
• A relatable story that brings the lesson to life
• Practical ways to apply it in your own leadership
• Insight into how your leadership is perceived by others
• A personal reflection question
• A 1-10 leadership self-assessment
• A written commitment to improve

This is not a book designed to be read once and forgotten.

It is designed to be used.

Week by week, you will challenge your habits, strengthen your character, improve the way you lead people, and intentionally develop your own leadership standard.

Because leadership is not something you receive with a promotion.

It is something you earn.