Mastering Leadership
Overview
This book reveals the key skills needed by any leader and shows how they can be used in practice, focusing on techniques for improving individual and organisational performance and enabling mid to senior level managers to understand their own leadership style. It provides guidance on how to develop a learning organisation and how to be a successful mentor.
Book Details
- Format:
- eBook
- ISBN:
- 9781854188588
- Pages:
- 180
- Publication Date:
- 2014
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Content
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: The need for new leadership mindsets
- The ‘new leader’ mindset
- ‘Management’, or ‘Leadership’?
CHAPTER TWO: The transformational leader mindset
- Beware fads, fashions and fetishes
- Leadership in transforming organizations
- Transformation and change: there to be managed and led
CHAPTER THREE: The baby and the bath water
- Keeping the ‘baby’…
- John Adair’s ‘Functions of Leadership’ model
- Hersey-Blanchard – the situational approach model
- Sun-Tzu – The Art of War (for Executives)
- Sensitive leadership: ‘eyes – and ears – on: hands-off’
- Exemplary leadership
- Leader power and inspirational leadership
- Getting rid of the bath water…
CHAPTER FOUR: What is meant by ‘mastery’, in leadership?
- Mastery – a learning progression
CHAPTER FIVE: ‘Learning for life’
- Key leadership activities
- Political awareness and acumen
CHAPTER SIX: Mastering the organization’s boundaries – and connections
- What are the organizational ‘boundaries’?
- Domain and cross-functional management
- ‘Organic’ management of boundaries and new connections
- The business process re-engineering approach to boundaries and new connections
- The ‘team’ approach to boundaries and new connections
- A leadership process for effective boundary management
CHAPTER SEVEN: Who can, who will, who does?
- ‘Young guard’ vs ‘old guard’ – the classic paradigm conflict
- Boundary ‘busting’ – a civilized approach
CHAPTER EIGHT: Managing today, in order to shape the organization’s tomorrow
- Transforming organizations – changing career patterns
- The leader as a coach
- Coaching – some key behaviours
- Coaching for performance – a coaching structure
- Coaching in action
- Coaching – the conditions for learning
- The coach’s style
CHAPTER NINE: Decisions – that’s what leaders are paid for…
- Decision-making – personal horizons
- The realities of problem analysis and decision-making
- Different personalities – different leadership – different decisions…
- Some tools and techniques
CHAPTER TEN: Taking the business forward – leading the innovative team
- The value of team working
- Versatile and adaptive leadership
- What distinguishes successful, high achieving teams?
- ‘Driver’ behaviour – its significance in teamwork
- Drivers – and the use of the profile
- The Driver’s profile
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Leading in a brave new world
- Transformation – the pathways to tomorrow
- Some learning initiatives for leaders…
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