Description
Book SynopsisThis book shows senior leaders how to leverage their unique personalities as an essential resource to help guide their organizations. Conventional leadership coaching approaches focus primarily on personal change, exploring the qualities that define successful leaders. But to trulyplay transformative and visionary roles within their organizations, C-suite and other senior leaders mustaccurately gauge their own strengths and weaknesses, and learn to identify and address the 'shadow side' of their personality traits.
This book offers a unique model for strategic leadership by encouraging leaders to think carefully about their personal leadership styles. The authors show readers how to use their Big Five personality profiles to identify their unique personality strengths, how to understand the personality styles of others they encounter in professional scenarios, and how to use this knowledge to steer their organizations to greater success.
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Table of Contents
Part I. Your Personality
Introduction. The “Aha” Moment
Chapter 1. Leadership Development Flaws
Chapter 2. Self-Reflection and Assessment
Chapter 3. Personality Traits
Chapter 4. Your Top Two Traits
Chapter 5. More on the Big Five
Chapter 6. Head Versus Heart
Chapter 7. Career Branding
Chapter 8. Beware of the Shadow
Chapter 9. Accurate Self-Knowledge
Chapter 10. The Big Five – Recap
Part II. Strategic Leadership
Chapter 11. The Strategic Transacting Model
Chapter 12. Your Platform
Part III. Building Blocks of Strategic Leadership
Chapter 13. Linguistics and Emotional Resonance
Chapter 14. Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 15. Interdependent Resonance
Chapter 16. Listening
Chapter 17. Improv and Body Language Exercises
Chapter 18. How to Influence Behavior
Chapter 19. Presentation Pointers
Chapter 20. Call to Action Emails
Part IV. Strategic Coaching
Chapter 21. Your Leadership Style
Chapter 22. Performance Management
Chapter 23. Creating a Winning Culture
Chapter 24. Coaching Habits and Practices
Chapter 25. Team Building
Conclusion
Supportive References
