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Student LPI Online uses a number of common terms in ways that may seem unfamiliar at first. Below is a glossary
terms that you will find while using LPI Online.
Account - Your account enables you to use and administer Student LPI Online. It contains
information about you and your organization, including how many Leader Licenses you have. You may update your
account at any time by logging on to Student LPI Online and clicking My Account.
Active Leader - In managing your Leaders, you have the choice of having them Active or
Archived. Active Leaders appear on your Active Leader summary table. How you use
these designations is your decision, but typically these Leaders have begun but not
finished the Student LPI process. See also Archived Leader.
Administrator - Sometimes referred to as a Facilitator in the print version of classic LPI
and the Student LPI, the Administrator purchases Student LPI Online Leader Licenses,
sets up Leader profiles, administers the Student LPI survey, and runs reports of the
results.
Anonymity - The Student LPI Online system takes every precaution to maintain the
anonymity of Observers. The Observer's name will not be associated with responses.
Archived Leader - In managing their Leaders, Administrators have the choice of
categorizing them as Active or Archived. Archived Leaders appear on an Archived
Leader summary table. Administrators typically use this classification to remove the
Leader from their Active Leader table, yet preserve the Leader's profile information for
future use.
Credibility - The second book by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner,
Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, explains why leadership
is above all a relationship with credibility as its cornerstone. To purchase Credibility,
click here.
Encouraging the Heart - The third book by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner,
Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others, explains how to
tap into a person's innate desire to do extraordinary things. To purchase Encouraging the Heart,
click here.
Facilitator - See Administrator.
Facilitator's Guide - Provides instructions for running a Student LPI feedback workshop
for one or more Leaders. The workshop is designed to help Leaders interpret their Student LPI Feedback Reports.
In addition to explaining Kouzes and Posner's Exemplary Leadership model, The Facilitator's Guide offers advice
and techniques for presenting feedback to your Leaders. The guide can be easily printed from PDF format or
viewed on-screen.
The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership - Created by Kouzes and Posner, this model
summarizes behaviors important to leadership:
- Modeling the Way
- Inspiring a Shared Vision
- Challenging the Process
- Enabling Others to Act
- Encouraging the Heart
To Learn more, explore the Leadership Challenge Website.
Instrument - Refers to the entire Student LPI process, including taking the inventories,
interpreting the Feedback Report, and formulating a leadership development plan.
Inventory - The Student LPI actually consists of two inventories, one for the Leader's
self-assessment (Student LPI-Self) and the other for the Observers assessing the Leader (Student LPI-Observer).
Each is composed of 30 questions-six for each of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership.
Kouzes and Posner - James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner are the creators of the
Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) and the Student LPI. Their research in leadership brings together data
from more than 4,000 cases as well as 200,000 surveys. They are also the authors of a number of books,
including The Leadership Challenge, Credibility, and Encouraging the Heart.
To learn more about the authors, visit the
Leadership Challenge Website.
Kouzes, James M. - See Kouzes and Posner.
Leader - The person being assessed through Student LPI Online. A given Leader will
self-assess, as well as be assessed by Observers.
Licenses - Student LPI Online charges every organization or consultant a fee for each Leader
being assessed. A single Leader License enables an Administrator, a Leader, and any number of Observers to use
Student LPI Online. For more information on purchasing Leader Licenses, click
Buy Student LPI.
Leadership Challenge, The - The best selling book by James M. Kouzes and Barry Posner,
creators of the LPI and Student LPI. For more information about the concept and the book,
visit the Leadership Challenge Website.
Likert Scale - A scale usually employed to quantify varying degrees of agreement or disagreement
with a given statement. In Student LPI Online's case, the Likert scale measures the frequency with which a Leader
uses each of the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, from 1 ("rarely or seldom") to 5
("almost always").
LPI - Short for Leadership Practices Inventory by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner,
authors of The Leadership Challenge. The print version of the classic LPI is now in its tenth printing.
Observer - Selected by the Leader, these individuals provide feedback on the Leader's
leadership behaviors by taking the Student LPI Observer.
Student Workbook - Designed for Leaders participating in a Student LPI feedback
workshop or reviewing their scores on their own, this workbook contains instructions for
analyzing a Leader's Student LPI Feedback Report. Leaders can bring a printout of this
workbook to their feedback meeting or workshop. Analysis of a Leader's Feedback
Report is placed in context with the leadership model created by Kouzes and Posner.
Posner, Barry Z. - See Kouzes and Posner.
Questionnaire - Term often used when referring to the inventory, Student LPI-Self, or
Report - See Student LPI Feedback Report.
Student LPI Feedback Report - Scores inventory data and incorporates the results into a single
feedback document.
Student LPI Observer - The Student LPI inventory taken by a Leader's Observers
(people who work closely with the Leader), which provides the Leader with feedback on how others view his or
her leadership practices.
Student LPI Online - Name of the Website created as a tool for administering Student LPI.
Student LPI Process - Refers to the entire process involved in generating and receiving a
Leader's feedback, from taking the Student LPI-Self to interpreting the Student LPI Feedback Report in a
Student LPI workshop.
Student LPI-Self - The Student LPI inventory taken by the Leader for self-assessment.
Student LPI Workshop - A meeting or workshop with one or more Leaders where each Leader's
LPI Feedback Report is interpreted and strategies for growth are outlined.
Survey - Term occasionally used in referring to Student LPI-Self or Student LPIObserver.
More commonly refers to the demographic survey Leaders are encouraged to
take after completing their Student LPI-Self.
Workshop - See Student LPI Feedback Workshop.
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