Become the leader you are
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 9788740308969
Table of contents: title: Content; title: Introduction; title: High-quality leadership is the exception; title: Executive coaching for self-awareness; title: Executive coaching equips leaders to lead and self-lead; title: Authentic leadership and self-coaching; title: What’s in this e-book; title: Become the leader you are; title: My coaching ethos: become who you are; title: Leaders who could deliver more; title: The link between authenticity and leadership; title: The quality of authentic leadership; title: Practical pointers; title: Leadership coaching; title: Resources and resourcefulness; title: The motivation for coaching; title: How to gain the most from leadership coaching; title: Challenges that leaders bring to coaching; title: Coaching outcomes; title: Risky thinking; title: Self-coaching; title: Practical pointers; title: Self-awareness and self-understanding; title: Self-awareness: the heart of executive coaching; title: Self-awareness is critical to effectiveness; title: Coaching is developmental, not remedial; title: The leader needs to care about their followers; title: Connecting with others depends on connecting with self; title: The difficult messages can be the eye openers; title: Practical pointers; title: We’re all part of the systems; title: We all function within several systems; title: Bringing alive what’s not said or seen; title: Individual and systemic awareness; title: Acknowledgment: the key to the door; title: Who or what has been excluded?; title: Beyond apparent logic; title: Practical pointers; title: Relationships and connection; title: Leaders function in relationship to others; title: Leaders’ effectiveness is linked to listening and connecting; title: Mandela’s collaborative leadership; title: A collaborative style of leadership strengthens the team; title: Practical pointers; title: Managing your emotions so as to lead others; title: How emotional intelligence shows up; title: Choosing your response; title: Stepping back emotionally; title: Empathy and the exceptional leader; title: Emotional intelligence can be learnt; title: Leadership outcomes from emotional intelligence; title: Practical pointers; title: Resilience, the bottom line and Ordinary Magic; title: Resilience: a direct connection with revenue growth; title: Building resilience is a constant; title: Four factors for resilience; title: Don’t just keep going: keep learning; title: Ordinary Magic; title: Practical pointers; title: Leadership development; title: What kind of leadership are we developing?; title: Leadership qualities; title: Six mental stances for top quality leadership; title: Practical pointers; title: Authentic leadership; title: The struggle to inhabit our own authenticity; title: The ideal organisation: diversity is encouraged; title: Sir Richard Branson: an example of authentic leadership; title: The rewards of authenticity; title: The path to authentic leadership: self-awareness and ‘being’; title: Practical pointers; title: Trust: a critical element of leadership; title: Lack of trust on the front line; title: Leaders who succeed through building trust; title: Trust: an increasingly frequent coaching issue; title: Trust is reciprocal; title: Leaders get more from their teams; title: Practical pointers; title: The global village; title: What is ‘culture’?; title: Complex, diverse workforces; title: The systemic impact of culture; title: Globalised responses; title: Leadership qualities for a global culture; title: Practical pointers; title: Leading across cultures; title: Leaders need to be cross-culturally effective; title: The executive’s reactions to their own impact; title: Where cultural differences show up; title: Self-understanding and self-awareness are key; title: Cross-cultural clear-sightedness; title: Taking multiple perspectives; title: Practical pointers; title: Diversity; title: Different types of diversity; title: Self-awareness and acceptance; title: Listening and valuing; title: Respecting cultural values; title: Releasing team potential; title: Practical pointers; title: The multi-generational workforce; title: Diversity of age and intellect; title: Diversity of pace; title: Slowing down; title: Speed-leadership; title: Slowing down can mean getting to the heart of challenges; title: Leaders play a crucial role in raising awareness of ‘slow’; title: Can the coach enter the client’s world?; title: Practical pointers; title: Career strategy; title: Purpose and meaning at work; title: Purpose: fundamental to career refocus; title: Professional identity; title: Values, beliefs, drivers, strengths – and obstacles; title: Career – and retirement – direction; title: Practical pointers; title: Career refocus: stepping off the treadmill; title: Getting off the treadmill; title: Resolving the dilemmas and tensions; title: Feeling ‘a whole person’; title: Handling difficulties – and refocusing the career; title: Making decisions in awareness; title: A new job – or something different in the current job; title: Swapping organisational life for ‘the good life’; title: Practical pointers; title: Factors in managing the executive career; title: Choosing the path rather than the path choosing you; title: A holistic approach brings the fullest value; title: The Wittenberg Career Coaching Model©; title: Career practicalities; title: The executive experience; title: Practical pointers; title: Your personal brand: a marketable identity; title: What is your personal brand?; title: Your passions; title: Your values; title: Your experience and achievements; title: Your strengths and skills; title: Your reputation; title: Your personal vision and your goals; title: Practical pointers; title: Creativity and innovation; title: The various manifestations of David Bowie; title: Treading a new path: creativity and innovation; title: Collaboration; title: Leadership, learning and the courage to pioneer; title: The freak becomes the unifier; title: Practical pointers; title: The neuroscience of learning and performance; title: A direct link between learning and performance; title: Why reflection works as a learning process; title: Slowing down to reflect; title: Why goal-based learning works; title: Mastery is anathema; title: Practical pointers; title: Mindfulness: coaching the leader; title: What is mindfulness?; title: Curiosity; title: Non-judging: wisdom and compassion; title: What next for the leaders I coach?; title: Practical pointers; title: Conclusion; title: Two fundamental principles: learning and self-awareness; title: Self-leadership; title: Self-coaching; title: Become the leader you are; title: Bibliography