Complete Leadership: A Practical Guide For Developing Your Leadership Talents

✍ Scribed by Bloch, Susan;Whiteley, Philip

• Publisher: Momentum
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A practical and personal coaching programme to help talented high-flyers develop leadership abilities. These should in turn make a measurable difference to their personal performance, to their team's performance and to the performance of their business. The text provides the techniques which should help you understand your team's perception of you, rate your performace on the leadership scorecard and coach yourself to better leadership skills.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Complete leadership......Page 4
contents......Page 11
foreword......Page 14
introduction......Page 16
chapter one they talk about you – how leadership affects the staff......Page 20
‘What am I doing here? (Maybe I’m not up to it . . .?)’......Page 23
‘I didn’t realize how important it was to prepare for the top’......Page 27
‘Get real, Mum and Dad, this is the modern world’......Page 30
‘It’s tough being a female executive in a man’s world’......Page 35
chapter two your behaviour is worth money – the links between what you do and how the business is......Page 42
Behaviour and leadership style: does it make a difference?......Page 43
Can I change? Will it change my personality?......Page 46
‘If only . . .’ and ‘I should . . .’......Page 53
We learn from what we do well, not from our mistakes......Page 58
Do I have to change my personality?......Page 60
chapter three take a picture of yourself – learn about the type of leader you already are......Page 64
The six leadership styles......Page 66
How to draw up your leadership style chart......Page 74
Emotional intelligence......Page 84
chapter four: the picture comes back from the developers – how the team sees you......Page 94
Self-awareness and delegation......Page 97
chapter five: a 3-D image of how we lead – using greater self- awareness to develop leadership strengths......Page 104
The charts that the questionnaires produce......Page 106
Beliefs drive behaviour (and an example of how workaholic beliefs can distort our perceptions)......Page 111
When all else fails, ask your kids......Page 121
Feelings are contagious (you can make others feel really good or really bad about themselves)......Page 122
3-D development......Page 124
chapter six: so, I’m not perfect – what next? the development begins in earnest......Page 132
I need to change . . . Some notes on ‘competing commitments’......Page 140
Get a coach? Some notes and warnings......Page 146
chapter seven: measuring your progress......Page 154
Feedback: some notes on how to engender continual, two-way feedback with your team......Page 157
chapter eight: you are on stage but not acting – an awareness of the public nature of the leader’s role......Page 164
The team grows as well......Page 167
chapter nine: did I just get better? complete leadership in action......Page 178
How to manage your boss......Page 179
Complete leadership in negotiations......Page 184
chapter ten: you never stop improving......Page 190
Complete leadership: let yourself flourish......Page 193
Concluding notes......Page 200
notes......Page 202
index......Page 205