Unleashing Your Inner Leader E-Book

Vickie Bevenour

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: SAS Institute Inc
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 378

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Leverage your brand of leadership for maximum results Unleashing Your Inner Leader: Executive Coach Tells Allpresents the premise that there is a powerful leader inside each ofus. The focus is on real life exercises and case studies to helpyou discover, release, and leverage your inner leader: to reachheights in your career that you never thought possible. The bookdiscusses the individual's impact on the organization andwhich professional behaviors most frequently demonstrate leadershipcompetencies. Conduct a "forensic intervention" to findout what is going awry in your professional development, or whathas gone wrong in the past, and craft a strategy to overcomeobstacles, gain unmistakable clarity about yourself, and focus yourabilities to match organizational needs. Great leaders start their assessments from the inside out, andtheir passion is so strong that it permeates their organizationsand builds the culture, regardless of rank. They inspire theirteams by sharing the spotlight and encouraging coworkers to excel,operating with clean authenticity to maximize results.Unleashing Your Inner Leader helps you recognize where youfall on the leadership spectrum, and provides practical advice forshaping your brand of leadership to capitalize on your authenticcapability and potential. You'll find expert insight as anexecutive business coach guides you to: * Evaluate your strengths, values, and personal impact to craft avision for the world around you * Discover what's holding you back from maximumeffectiveness * Tap into your undiscovered potential, and inspire your team toexcellence * Recognize what it will take to move you and your organizationto the next level It is often very difficult for leaders to see their own greatness,unlock it, and use it in a practical way to get results. Be thespark that ignites your team, and steer your own development towardbecoming an impactful leader with Unleashing Your InnerLeader.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

About Me

About the Book

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: You and Your Inner Leader

Part One of the Book

Part Two of the Book

Part Three of the Book

How to Read This Book

Change Model: Unleashing Your Inner Leader

About You

You and Your Inner Leader Chapter Summary

Part One: Know Yourself…Authentically

Chapter 2: Strengths: Who Are You?

What Is a Strength?

Using and Leveraging Your Strengths

Strengths Exercise 1: Discover Your Strengths

Strengths Exercise 2: Building Your Strengths Statements

Strengths Exercise 3: Communicating Your Strengths Statements

When Strength Becomes a Weakness

Strengths Chapter Summary

Chapter 3: Values: What Do You Stand For?

What Is a Value?

Values Drive Decisions and Behaviors

When Values Are Misaligned

Values Exercise 1: Discover Your Values

Values Exercise 2: Align Your Values and Behavior

Values Chapter Summary

Chapter 4: Impact: What Do You Do?

Get Your Results Noticed

Impact Exercise 1: Build Your CAR Stories—Challenge, Action, Result

What Is Your Career Currency?

Impact Exercise 2: Use CAR Stories as a Record of Career Currency

CAR Stories for Career Leadership and Success

Impact Chapter Summary

Chapter 5: Personal Brand: How Do Others See You?

What Is a Personal Brand?

Personal Branding Is about How Others Perceive You

Are You on the Career Ledge?

Five Steps toward Personal Branding

Personal Brand Exercise 1: Who Are You?

Personal Brand Exercise 2: What Do You Do?

Personal Brand Exercise 3: What Is Your Unique Promise of Value?

Personal Brand Exercise 4: What Are Your Results?

Personal Brand Exercise 5: What Are the Benefits of Your Results?

Examples: Personal Brand Statements

Putting Your Personal Brand to Work

Personal Brand Exercise 6: Communicate Your Personal Brand Daily

Personal Brand Exercise 7: Communicate Your Personal Brand on Social Media

Personal Brand Chapter Summary

Part Two: Evolve Your Inner Leader

Chapter 6: Productivity: How Do You Get Work Done?

How Disciplined Are You?

The Great DANE

Productivity Exercise 1: Eliminate the Bottom 30 Percent of Your Work

Productivity Exercise 2: Say No to One Work Task per Day

How Good Are You at Saying No?

Managing Your Energy for Success

Productivity Exercise 3: Build a Recovery Routine to Sustain Results

Productivity Exercise 4: Build a Long-Term Recovery Routine to Sustain Results

Productivity Chapter Summary

Chapter 7: Mentoring: Helping Others and Helping Yourself

What Is Mentoring?

Steps to Working with a Mentor

Mentoring Exercise: Six Steps to Find and Work with a Mentor

What Should I Work on with My Mentor?

Mentoring Chapter Summary

Chapter 8: Personal Language: What Does Your Language Say about You?

Do You Talk Too Much (and Say Nothing)?

Do You Ask the Right Questions?

Personal Language Exercise 1: Make a List of

What

Questions

Is Your Personal Language Sabotaging Your Effectiveness?

Personal Language Exercise 2: Change Your Favorite Phrases

Three Tips to Effective Personal Communication

Personal Language Chapter Summary

Chapter 9: Career Evolution: Where Are You Going?

What Is Your Next Step?

Successful Career Evolution Process Phase 1: Discover Your Story

Successful Career Evolution Process Phase 2: Network

Career Evolution Exercise 1: Appreciate Those Who've Helped You

Successful Career Evolution Process Phase 3: Interviewing

Career Evolution Exercise 2: Tell Your CAR Stories

Successful Career Evolution Chapter Summary

Chapter 10: Career Evolution: Building Your Leadership Legacy

Building Your Leadership Legacy

What Is Your Definition of Success?

Success Exercise 1: What Will Success Look Like?

Success Exercise 2: Uncover Your Subconscious

Find Future Success in Your Past

Success Exercise 3: Turn off the Self-Doubt and Turn up the Facts

Living Your Leadership Legacy

Career Evolution: Building Your Leadership Legacy Chapter Summary

Part Three: Inspire Your Inner Leader

Chapter 11: Guiding Principles

Guiding Principles

Guiding Principles Chapter Summary

Chapter 12: Letting Go of Me to Get to Us

Letting Go of

Me

to get to

Us

Letting Go of

Me

to Get to

Us

Chapter Summary

Chapter 13: Reflecting on the Past to Get to the Future

Reflecting on the Past to Get to the Future

Reflecting on the Past to Get to the Future Chapter Summary

Chapter 14: When You Become the Inspiration

When

You

Become the Inspiration

When

You

Become the Inspiration Chapter Summary

About the Author

Index

End User License Agreement

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Guide

Cover

Table of Contents

Preface

Begin Reading

List of Illustrations

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Additional Praise for Unleashing Your Inner Leader

“I clearly remember the moment… I announced a new promotion at SAS and Vickie announced the launch of her coaching business. That was when I became Vickie's first client. Vickie led me through many of the exercises that she details in this book—discovering my strengths and values, learning to delegate and ask ‘what’ questions, using my personal brand, and building my leadership legacy. Vickie tells you it won't always be easy. And yes, it took time for these concepts to become a natural part of my leadership style and to reap the rewards of choosing roles that I love; while delighting my team by ‘treating them the way they want to be treated’. This book is a must read.

—Kristin Rahn, Analytics Industry Executive (former SAP Vice President, SAS JMP Business Unit leader, AAA Analytics leader)

“Unleashing Your Inner Leader is a standout in the plethora of “how to be a better leader” books. Coach Vickie shares her real life experiences coaching over 4,000 managers, directors and executives in becoming better leaders. The concepts and tools coupled with real life examples of success in this book provide an easy to follow roadmap that will make you a better leader.”

—Melissa Church, Vice President, Optum

“Clarity of communications in a cluttered world of competing messages is all-important. As a non-profit manager, you must know precisely the value you bring to the organization and the attributes your team contributes to communicating the message your organization seeks to impart to its constituency. This self-knowledge and organizational clarity takes analysis and refining. Coach Vickie offers a roadmap of how to get started and provides guideposts along the way to measure your progress. ‘Know yourself and know your brand’, she says. Hard to do, but she offers tools to support her good counsel.”

—Roy M. Henwood, CAE, Former Agribusiness Trade Association CEO and Government Relations Professional

Coach Vickie's approach is direct and simple. What's more important than uncovering your Inner Leader and using it to play your best game possible? Business professionals know where they want to go and this book shows them how to get there. The real-life examples and case studies in this resource are a must read.

—Sandy Carter, General Manager, Ecosystem Development

This book reflects the wisdom of an experienced, practical leadership coach whom I continue to use in my leadership programs because of her effectiveness with a wide variety of clients. Vickie Bevenour has encapsulated the lessons of her work with thousands of leaders in the form crisp insights, compelling case examples, and effective action exercises that can be used to enhance your own leadership development trajectory. She is someone worth listening to.

—Sim B Sitkin, Professor of Management and Founding Faculty Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at Duke University

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Unleashing Your Inner Leader

An Executive Coach Tells All

Coach Vickie

Condolff Bevenour

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To my clients, the source of inspiration and the real business heroes of this book.

To my husband, my partner, my friend, who believes in my dreams and helped me see who I am. And, who for years nagged me to write this book!

To my parents, who always told me that I could be anything that I wanted to be and I could do anything that I wanted to do.

My greatest pleasure is being a partner and catalyst in the success of my clients.

—Coach Vickie