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Be A Better Leader Catherine Doherty

Be A Better Leader By Catherine Doherty

Be A Better Leader by Catherine Doherty


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Summary

A simple, straightforward and inspiring guide on how to become the leader you want to be. Including case studies and useful exercises, it provides an empowering insight into the skills of the successful leader.

Be A Better Leader Summary

Be A Better Leader: An inspiring, practical guide to becoming a successful leader by Catherine Doherty

Is this the right book for me?

If you want to learn how to be an inspirational leader then this is the book for you! It is clearly written and enriched throughout with invaluable case studies, exercises and descriptions of how great leaders have made a difference. Coverage includes:

*Setting a clear vision
*What makes a great leader
*Different types of leader
*The building blocks
*Unlocking patterns of communication
*Working with and relating to others
*Achieving the balance between leadership and life

Containing lots of practical advice, this book helps you to change bad habits, guides you towards the sort of leadership style that's right for you and empowers you to be the best leader you can be.

Learn effortlessly with an easy-to-read page design and new added features:

Not got much time?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.

Author insights
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.

Test yourself
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.

Extend your knowledge
Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of how to be a better leader.

Five things to remember
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

Try this
Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

About Catherine Doherty

Catherine Doherty and John Thompson are executive coaches and advisors; Catherine is Managing Director of Fields of Learning, where John is a consultant. He also lectures in Leadership and Human Resources at the University of Ulster.

Table of Contents

  • : Chapter 1: Anybody can be, and everybody is, a leader
  • : - Acknowledge your potential to be the leader you deserve to be
  • : - Explore how you wish to be viewed as a leader (2nd, 3rd positions, future timeline
  • : - See your future leadership through Shack
  • Chapter 2: Seven styles of leading: find your best fit:: Current leadership style instrument for self and others
  • : - Leadership profiles of great leaders
  • : Chapter 3: Leadership through well formed outcomes: Christabel Pankhurst
  • : - Creating a well formed outcome
  • Chapter 4: The building blocks: Presupposition of leadership:
  • : - If one can/anyone can
  • : - The three minute leadership seminar
  • - Acuity and calibration (VAK) and: spotting the fallen
  • - Rapport - how to build it Matching and mismatching, knowing: when you have it
  • - Knowing: when you have it: five indicators of rapport (Ted James)
  • Chapter 5: Beliefs of a leader:: Enabling Beliefs
  • : - Limiting beliefs
  • : - Levels of influence
  • : - Manage your state - manage your outcome
  • : - Dealing with internal conflict
  • : Chapter 6: Unlocking patterns of communication
  • - Leadership communications model: How you delete, distort and: generalize
  • : - Internal representations: how the map is not the territory
  • - Wisdom for leaders: using perceptual positions
  • : Chapter 7: Unlocking patterns of communication
  • : - Patterns of thinking: how you think the world the way you do
  • : - Big Picture/Detail
  • : - Externally/ Internally referenced
  • : - Options/Procedures
  • : - Similarity/ Difference/Mismatch
  • : - Away from/Towards
  • : Chapter 8: Communicating powerfully
  • - Precision language: the 12 ways to get from surface meaning to what is really meant using: unspecified nouns/verbs
  • : - Fuzzy Language: how to influence others to create the same world as you and thus to join
  • : Chapter 9: Working with and relating to others
  • : - Being visible and approachable
  • : - Resourceful in a crisis
  • : - Feedback - how to give/sandwich/receiving
  • : - Stop, start, continue
  • : Chapter 10: Achieving the balance between leadership and life
  • - Balance for performance:
  • : - David's diar Shiny sides and dull sides: the shadows from your excellence
  • : - The move: Freedom from/to freedom to
  • : Chapter 11: Now begin
  • : - Getting you ready
  • -: Managing your fears from the past
  • : - Stopping what stops you: the phobia cure
  • : - Moving on - making choices
  • : - Time to choose - forward timeline, and visiting the garden. See, hear and smell your successful leadership

Additional information

GOR005584797
9781444103267
1444103261
Be A Better Leader: An inspiring, practical guide to becoming a successful leader by Catherine Doherty
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
2010-07-30
336
N/A
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