Often, leaders with solid experience and technical capabilities are promoted into leadership positions. They find themselves leading a team and facing a variety of situations they never encountered previously.
In Thriving Leaders: Learn the Skills to Lead Confidently, you will learn to use your authentic leadership style, adapt to each situation and lead effectively.
This book is for all leaders in all industries. It is also actionable, which means you can practice and implement the techniques straight away.
You will learn to:
· Improve self-awareness and understand your natural leadership style.
· Build a high-performing team.
· Develop your team by effectively giving and receiving feedback.
· Empower your team members by taking a coaching approach.
· Hold your team members accountable, and set expectations and goals.
· Communicate with impact through clear messaging.
The outcome of mastering these skills is a thriving and confident leader.
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Introduction
Why I wrote this book
Thriving Leaders Model
Why read this book
How to use this book
Part 1: Understand self and others
Chapter 1: Leadership Style
What is leadership?
Leadership styles
Building your leadership style
Confidence
Summary
Actions
Chapter 2: Thriving Teams
What is a high-performing team?
Thriving Teams Model
Purpose
Relationships
Accountability
Connection
Challenge and Support
Alignment
High-performance cultures
Summary
Actions
PART 2: Empower and develop your team
Chapter 3: Feedback
What is feedback?
How to give feedback
What not to do when giving feedback
Feedback models
The Thriving Feedback Model in action
Creating a culture of feedback
Summary
Actions
Chapter 4: Coaching
What is coaching?
How to coach
Coaching models
When to coach
Creating a coaching culture
Summary
Actions
PART 3: Connect to purpose
Chapter 5: Accountability
What is accountability?
How to hold others accountable
Strategy
Goal setting
Operating rhythm
Decision-making
A culture of accountability
Summary
Actions
Chapter 6: Communication
What is communication?
How to communicate effectively
Understand your audience
Purpose
Storytelling
Communication structure
Communicating change
Summary
Actions
Where to from here?
References
Over de auteur
Claire Gray draws on her extensive experience as a leadership and high-performing team facilitator and coach who develops leaders, teams and organisations so they thrive.