How to Be a Brilliant Leader (Brilliant Business)

✍ Scribed by Simon Cooper

• Publisher: Pearson Business
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

All the tools you need for leadership success. Learn how to find and nurture the best talent around, manage work and team synergy to achieve maximum results and, most importantly, learn how to act and communicate as a true leader.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
About the author
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 Leadership principles
Leadership styles
Competency based leadership
The competency matrix
Chapter 2 Recruiting the best
Stage 1 – Job description
Stage 2 – Person specification
Stage 3 – Sourcing candidates
Stage 4 – Screening candidates
Stage 5 – Testing candidates
Stage 6 – Interview
Personality, character traits and disposition
Chapter 3 Coaching and development
How do people become competent?
Tools for developing knowledge, skills and application
What is the best way to develop staff?
The barriers to coaching
Overview of the coaching cycle
The art of coaching
Learning styles
Leap experiences
Record keeping
Chapter 4 Driving performance
Managing against performance expectations
The performance review process
Motivation
Chapter 5 Managing workloads and delegating effectively
The prioritisation model
Effective delegation
Chapter 6 Developing team synergy
Cross training
Knowledge sharing
Behavioural preference
Stages of team development
Team spirit
Chapter 7 Communicating like a leader
Core principles
The 3 Vs
The 80/20 rule
The communication funnel
The black box effect
Assertiveness
Team meetings and briefings
Chapter 8 Leading cross functional teams
The eternal triangle
The challenges
The solutions
Chapter 9 Managing change
Why change?
The stakeholders
The 10 steps of change
The culture of change
Chapter 10 Leading without direct reports
Building and managing relationships
Building your leadership brand
Chapter 11 The big picture
Points of energy
People
Planning
Processes
Performance
Environment
Bibliography
Index