Whether you have just one boss or you’re working in a matrix with multiple managers or senior stakeholders, you’ll find the book full of tips, tools and challenging questions to help you and your boss get the most from what is one of the most important relationships in your working life.
It’s a book that’ll help you influence, get that promotion, progress your career. It’s a handbook for upwards leadership and truly enjoying your job.
It’s also a book that’ll get leaders thinking differently about the way they lead. They’ll want to share it with their teams, because this isn’t a book about judging your boss or tricking them into making life easy for you. It’s about having an adult-to-adult relationship and managing up for mutual gain.
Table of Content
- THIS BOOK IN A NUTSHELL: Why read this book? Why these 10 lessons? How best to approach them. How it all hangs together
- LESSON 1: Have a vision of your own
- LESSON 2: Choose your leader wisely
- LESSON 3: Challenge your assumptions
- LESSON 4: We get the leader we deserve
- LESSON 5: Seek clarity
- TAKING STOCK
- LESSON 6: Take due responsibility
- LESSON 7: Continually build your capacity
- LESSON 8: Secure and maintain commitment
- LESSON 9: Be courageous
- LESSON 10: Promote and enable good followership in others
- BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: What we’ve covered. What you’ve learned. What you’re doing differently. Where to from here?
- THREE MONTHS ON: What’s happened since you last picked up the book? What successes have you had? Where have you stalled or relapsed? How might you have used this book differently if, when you started, you knew the things you know now?
- APPENDICES: Acknowledgements. About the author. References and notes.
About the author
Richard is a psychologist specialising in driving organisational performance by improving the quality of leadership, followership and team performance – whether that’s working with individuals, teams, groups or whole organisations. He has consulted on six continents with the likes of BT, Credit Suisse, numerous charities, Ernst & Young, Gucci, Heineken, government agencies, the military, the NHS, Nickelodeon, Rolls-Royce, Shell, Siemens, Southampton Football Club, Virgin and Vodafone. He’s also enjoyed relationships with London, Henley and Oxford-Said Business Schools, and Dublin’s Trinity College.He’s the author of two previous books – ‘ARC Leadership: from surviving to thriving in a complex world’ and ‘The Boss Factor: 10 lessons in managing up for mutual gain’ – co-wrote Henley Business School’s 2013 ‘future of leadership development’ report, and is a contributing author in The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching.
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