Leadership is the ability to create an environment where everyone knows what contribution is expected and feels totally committed to doing a great job.Leadership is an essential skill for all successful managers to learn and practise regularly.
This book explains the key techniques leaders use to release their own and their team’s full potential. It shows you how to think and take action with a leadership approach and to look at yourself and the world around you with a leadership focus.
Leadership is the ability to create an environment where everyone knows what contribution is expected and feels totally committed to doing a great job.Leadership is an essential skill for all successful managers to learn and practise regularly.
This book explains the key techniques leaders use to release their own and their team’s full potential. It shows you how to think and take action with a leadership approach and to look at yourself and the world around you with a leadership focus.
Practical advice is given to help you to develop the leadership aspects of your own role and to encourage leadership and initiative from everyone in your team. From taking up a leadership role to leading with confidence in difficult situations, this book prepares you step-by-step for all the challenges leaders face.
The book is packed with advice to held you direct your energy towards building essential relationshios and achieving the most important results that add value to your organization and identify you as a successful leader of people.
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Understanding leadership
Defining the challenge
Leading from within
Leading through vision
Growing with your role
CHAPTER 2
Taking up your
leadership role
Preparing to lead
Focusing your energy
Working at relationships
Usin9 competences
Providin9 feedback
Learning from feedback
Developin9 yourself
Balancin9 work and life
Inspirin9 and. encouragin9
CHAPTER 3
Leading through challenges
Focusing on the future
Enabling change
Energizing the team
Leading difficult people
Balancing targets
Improving confidence
Creating networks
Learning from entrepreneurs
CHAPTER 4
Developing leaders
Investing in the future
Coaching for success
Adopting new
leadership patterns
Index
Acknowledgements