Leadership is a continuous journey – navigating relationships, events, and the environments in which we live and work.
In many workplaces, people are promoted to supervisory positions because their technical skills are strong. When they are placed in those leadership roles, they are often not provided the training and support to jump the gap from being strong technical team members to effective leaders. They may struggle and they may even fail in their new role.
If you want to be an average leader, you will be an average leader. However, if you want to be a leader who changes lives-you can be that leader with concentrated effort and self-reflection. In this book, we share the knowledge and insights we’ve gathered through formal education and decades of real-life experience. We offer ideas and strategies for anyone to become a better, more effective leader.
The world could use more amazing leaders. One of those amazing leaders could be you.
Table of Content
Table of Contents
Dedication
The Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Leaders versus Managers
Chapter 2 – Values – Your Bottom Line
Chapter 3 – Finding Your Purpose
Chapter 4 – Showing Up As a Leader
Chapter 5 – Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 6 – Self-Awareness
Chapter 7 – Promote Internally or Hire Externally
Chapter 8 – Work-Life Integration- The New Work-Life Balance
Chapter 9 – Building Trust
Chapter 10 – Effective Communication
Chapter 11 – Empowering Others
Chapter 12 – Recognition
Chapter 13 – Providing Effective Feedback
Chapter 14 – Dealing with Difficult People
Chapter 15 – Managing Difficult Conversations
Chapter 16 – Coaching your Employees
Chapter 17 – When and How to Let Someone Go
Chapter 18 – Systems Thinking
Chapter 19 – Planning and Achieving Corporate Goals
Chapter 20 – Getting Shit Done
Chapter 21 – Leading Change
Chapter 22 – Leading Through Adversity
Chapter 23 – Working for a Bad Boss
Chapter 24 – The Leader’s Role In Corporate Culture
Chapter 25 – Importance of a Mentor
Chapter 26 – The Value of Coaching
Chapter 27 – Continuous Growth
Conclusion
Appendix A – Communications Strategy Template
References
Author Biographies
Authors’ Contact Information
About the author
Heather Thomson is a wife, mother, educator, leader, author and entrepreneur. She is a Certified Executive Coach with an ACC designation from the International Coaching Federation and is the founder of Bold and Brave Coaching. She is also a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach. Her passion is working with women leaders to help them navigate their personal and professional lives in order to lead happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives. She has had the opportunity to support many leaders on their leadership journey. During her 27 years in education, she has held many formal and informal leadership roles. She has a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and a Bachelor of Business Administration. She lives in Alberta with her husband, daughter, two family dogs and a cat.
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