Like a hiker climbing to reach a mountaintop, you will undoubtedly encounter obstacles on your journey to peak effectiveness as a business leader. Challenges can range from leading a dysfunctional team to underestimating how much your actions impact others.
What if you could be more effective as a leader?
What if you could:
- Significantly improve your organization’s culture?
- Engage your team to maximize performance?
- Learn to appreciate and leverage others’ strengths?
- Manage conflict more constructively?•Identify and stop self-defeating behaviors?
- Become more productive and influential in your role?
Through her work in the corporate world and as a consultant, Priscilla Archangel has gained insight into how some leaders obtain great results with seemingly little effort, while others must work hard. In Leader Vantage, she shares what she’s learned to help business executives improve their capabilities as they progress to greater levels of responsibility and peak leadership. Via a series of stories, Archangel highlights typical issues business leaders face in the key areas of purpose, perspective, values, traits, behaviors, tools, and ideas. She offers strategies and practical tips that can be used as stepping stones to reach a vantage point where patterns, pathways, and potential risks are more easily visible. The result is better leadership decisions. Leader Vantage is a book for leaders who want to bring out the best in themselves, other individuals, teams, and organizations. Begin your journey to gain your own Leader Vantage and positively impact your leadership effectiveness.
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Step 1. LEADERSHIP PURPOSE
The ‘why’ behind your leadership
1. Discovering Your Leadership Purpose
2. Pivot to Purpose
3. Purpose, Patience, and Preparation
4. Doing Nothing
5. Making a Shift
Step 2. LEADERSHIP PERSPECTIVE
Foundational viewpoints to guide leaders
1. Developing Leadership Perspective
2. Managing Risk
3. Important Versus Urgent
4. Gaining a New Perspective
5. Left Hand-Right Hand
6. Insanity Check
7. Your Inner Circle
8. What Does Your Culture Look Like?
9. Let It Go
10. The Mighty Ones
Step 3. LEADERSHIP VALUES
Principles and standards that support constructive leadership
1. Faith@Work
2. Fear@Work
3. Leadership Disciplines for Success
4. Prides, Herds, and Teams
5. What’s Your Communication Goal?
6. Dare to Be Different
7. Who Owns You?
8. Invest in Yourself
Step 4. LEADERSHIP TRAITS
Distinguishing characteristics of successful leaders
1. Prioritizing Relationships
2. Your Personal Brand
3. Building Trusting Relationships
4. Empathetic Leadership
5. The Reward of Waiting
6. When Leading You Is All about Me
7. Leadership Stamina
Step 5. LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS
Actions and attitudes that support constructive leadership
1. Servant Leadership
2. Motivations to Good Decisions
3. What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
4. Saying No
5. Leading in a ‘No Wake Zone’
6. Establishing Your Tone at the Top
7. Your Pain Point
8. When You Don’t Have a Dream Team
9. Sustainable Leadership
10. Life Interrupting Work
Step 6. LEADERSHIP TOOLS
Essential elements for accomplishing your leadership goals
1. Illusion or Reality
2. Cracked Concrete
3. Managing Your VUCA
4. Problem Solving
5. Learning in Action
6. Yes. . . #Me Too
Step 7. LEADERSHIP IDEAS
Wisdom for pursuing goals
1. Your Dream or Your Nightmare?
2. Passion
3. Ideation Space
4. The Tenacity to Win
Про автора
Priscilla Archangel has a passion for developing successful leaders by partnering with them to grow professionally as they lead their teams and organizations. She accomplishes this through her work as an executive coach, leadership and organizational development consultant, facilitator, speaker and author.Much of Priscilla’s expertise was gained from her strategic global human resource executive roles at General Motors over the course of a 30-plus-year career.As President of Archangel and Associates, LLC, her collaboration with clients helps them to align their unique purpose and strengths with their professional roles; identify creative approaches to address organizational challenges; strengthen their team dynamics; smoothly transition into new leadership roles and organizations; align culture and business goals; improve employee engagement to support business results; and build diverse, equitable and inclusive teams.Priscilla delivers keynote and motivational speeches to corporations and professional associations on leadership and organizational development topics. She writes a monthly article sharing her leadership insights, which is read by thousands of people through a variety of publishing channels.Priscilla holds a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development from Fielding Graduate University, a M.S.W. in Administration from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in Psychology from Anderson University. She is a John Maxwell Team certified coach, speaker and teacher, and a licensed minister.