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Leadership Gurus Speak Out!

Leaders need the new information and perspective in this book. With all of the Experts Who Speak Books, our goal is to provide you with tips, tools, motivation and essential information. In Leadership Gurus Speak Out!, you’ll find the collective wisdom, experience and knowledge of 13 top speakers, trainers, facilitators, coaches and consultants from across North America who specialize in leadership issues and innovation. Where else can you find the proven expertise and essential wisdom of 13 top trainers, coaches and consultants in one book? Each have taken the absolute essence of their work and teaching and condensed it into chapter form. And the information in each chapter is written with a focus on providing you with the new tools, skills and systems you need to excel, all in a format that is easy to read. 
 

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Awakening the Workplace II
Contributing author
Sue Edwards

Chapter Title: You’ve Gotta’ Flip It On Its Head!  Four Key Strategies for Leadership Success

Increasingly, people are seeing themselves in a new light in relation to their work, expressing higher expectations for achieving connection, fulfillment and success. At the same time, the workplace is constantly evolving, creating a need for new approaches and strategies to create environments in which people work more effectively together to achieve lasting results. In short, both as individuals and teams, we seek to be fully alive in our work—finding personal meaning and creating stellar growth for our organizations.

 

 

 
 

Managing and Leading


The One Thing You Need to Know

by Marcus Buckingham

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·         Subtitled, …About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success

·         Bestselling coauthor of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths

·         Principles are consistent with Development by Design’s coaching philosophy

·         Key insights about Managers:

1. The chief responsibility of a manager is to turn a person’s talent into performance

2. Great managers find out what is unique about each person and leverage that uniqueness.

3.Great managers focus on developing strengths, not remediating weaknesses

·         Key insights about Leaders:

1. A leader’s chief responsibility is to rally people to a better future

2. Great leaders find out what is universal about people and capitalize on it

3.Great leaders take time to think, they pick their heroes with care and they practice their stories

Creating Innovative Alliances


SmartMatch Alliances

by Judy Feld and Ernest Oriente

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·         Complements several of the principles addressed in Development by Design’s program, Fueling Your Business Development Through Innovative Alliances

·         Easy-to-read with bullet points, side-bar coaching tips and plenty of concrete examples

·         Stimulates your thinking for potential win:win alliances with other businesses to leverage your marketing and business growth

·         Step-by-step model to identifying and developing alliance partners

Onboarding/Transitions

To view a list of recommended books that Sue Edwards has found to be of value on the topics of Onboarding and Transitions visit her site devoted to this topic
Clearing the 90 Day Hurdle

Creativity and Innovation

Get Unstuck & Get Going

.....on the stuff that matters

by Michael Bungay Stanier

 

Michael Bungay Stanier, the Canadian Coach of the Year and Principal of Box of Crayons has developed a self-coaching tool Get Unstuck & Get Going.

The foundational tool, the Get Unstuck & Get Going…on the stuff that matters book, provides 125,000 possible combinations of thought-provoking questions, inspirational quotes and wise success models, you can use time and time again to make genuine change your life.

You get a powerful step-by-step guide to moving from stuck to action. The Action Acceleration Sheet, included in both programs, will help you define the challenge effortlessly, find inspiration, be accountable for your actions and achieve your goals.

 

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