
Becoming a Strategic Leader
Capitalize on the Power of Your Personality
American Psychological Association (Publisher)
Published on 16. January 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-1-4338-4306-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book shows senior leaders how to leverage their unique personalities as an essential resource to help guide their organizations.
Conventional leadership coaching approaches focus primarily on personal change, exploring the qualities that define successful leaders. But to truly play transformative and visionary roles within their organizations, C-suite and other senior leaders must accurately gauge their own strengths and weaknesses, and learn to identify and address the amp quot shadow side amp quot of their personality traits.
This book offers a unique model for strategic leadership by encouraging leaders to think carefully about their personal leadership styles. The authors show readers how to use their Big Five personality profiles to identify their unique personality strengths, how to understand the personality styles of others they encounter in professional scenarios, and how to use this knowledge to steer their organizations to greater success.
Becoming a Strategic Leader also provides guidelines for coaching staff, managing performance, creating an optimal work culture, and establishing best practices for planning and leadership in the workplace.
Conventional leadership coaching approaches focus primarily on personal change, exploring the qualities that define successful leaders. But to truly play transformative and visionary roles within their organizations, C-suite and other senior leaders must accurately gauge their own strengths and weaknesses, and learn to identify and address the amp quot shadow side amp quot of their personality traits.
This book offers a unique model for strategic leadership by encouraging leaders to think carefully about their personal leadership styles. The authors show readers how to use their Big Five personality profiles to identify their unique personality strengths, how to understand the personality styles of others they encounter in professional scenarios, and how to use this knowledge to steer their organizations to greater success.
Becoming a Strategic Leader also provides guidelines for coaching staff, managing performance, creating an optimal work culture, and establishing best practices for planning and leadership in the workplace.
Reviews / Votes
The authors combine deep expertise in psychology and business to provide a practical, easy-to-digest framework for understanding and celebrating your unique personality strengths and applying them to add strategic value to people and organizations. - Eric Feuerlicht, MBA, Professional Certified Coach, Leadership Development and Coaching Director, Accenture Combining Big 5 personality research with Carl Jung amp rsquo s insights and the organizational transaction cycle, George Watts and Laurie Blazek have crafted a sturdy foundation for leadership growth. While targeted at business leaders, this book will resonate with nonprofit and public sector leaders dealing with diverse personalities daily. It amp rsquo s a budget friendly, accessible alternative to executive coaching, offering a quick path to both personal growth and enhanced people development skills. - Karen S. Coltrane, MS, President & CEO, Children's Museum of the Lowcountry Becoming a Strategic Leader is one of those rare books that is both fascinating and practical. Watts and Blazek brilliantly blend personality theory with real-world strategy, giving leaders the tools they need to understand themselves, supercharge their teams, and win over key stakeholders. A must-read for every aspiring leader! - James Millar, Founder and Managing Partner, Skybridge Associates; author of Building Bridges: The Case for Executive Peer Networks Becoming a Strategic Leader is a brilliant intersection of proven science and astute observation. The authors amp rsquo program has the potential to radically transform leadership training and development. This will be must-have reading for my team. - Karl C. Johnson Jr., President and Chief Financial Officer, Diversified Chemical Technologies, Inc. Becoming a Strategic Leader provides a clear invitation for leaders to do something powerful with the insights from their personality as it drives value. This book will empower leaders to make the best choices for their lives and careers as they grow as leaders. - Bradley Brummel, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX Becoming a Strategic Leader goes beyond offering a leadership model that others should imitate. It also offers insights and tools to help leaders recognize when they are at their best, and leverage those strengths to add strategic value to their teams and organizations. This strengths-based approach is the key to developing authentic leadership skills that last! - Tamara S. Lyn, PhD, ABPP, Warden (Retired), Federal Bureau of Prisons This book is filled with tools, including simple yet thorough self-assessments, an understandable and usable model for strategic leadership, and practical, implementable actions readers can take to be better individuals and leaders. - Jill B. Smart, MBA, Former Chief Human Resources Officer, Accenture; President Emeritus, National Academy of Human ResourcesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 153 mm
Width: 228 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4338-4306-8 (9781433843068)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
George W. Watts, MS, EdD, chairman of Top Line Talent, is a nationally recognized author, behavioral scientist, and senior executive. George delivers acclaimed leadership training programs throughout the world. He coaches CEOs on how to build and lead formidable amp ldquo C amp rdquo suite teams. Thousands of people have experienced his approach and commitment to teaching his powerful principles of professional development.
Laurie Blazek, BS, MBA, president and CEO of Top Line Talent, is the cocreator of the associated online TLT leadership development program. Laurie has over 25 years of business development, marketing, and leadership experience at large multinational banks including JP Morgan, Citigroup, and Bank of America. She has held senior positions in a wide variety of financial services sectors including asset-backed finance, corporate and investment banking, leveraged finance, private banking, and financial advising.
Visit their LinkedIn page at www.linkedin.com/company/top-line-talent and their website at www.tltcoaching.com.
Laurie Blazek, BS, MBA, president and CEO of Top Line Talent, is the cocreator of the associated online TLT leadership development program. Laurie has over 25 years of business development, marketing, and leadership experience at large multinational banks including JP Morgan, Citigroup, and Bank of America. She has held senior positions in a wide variety of financial services sectors including asset-backed finance, corporate and investment banking, leveraged finance, private banking, and financial advising.
Visit their LinkedIn page at www.linkedin.com/company/top-line-talent and their website at www.tltcoaching.com.
Content
Part I. Your Personality
Introduction. The Moment
Chapter . Leadership Development Flaws
Chapter 2. Self-Reflection and Assessment
Chapter 3. Personality Traits
Chapter 4. Your Top Two Traits
Chapter 5. More on the Big Five
Chapter . Head Versus Heart
Chapter 7. Career Branding
Chapter 8. Beware of the Shadow
Chapter 9. Accurate Self-Knowledge
Chapter . The Big Five amp ndash Recap
Part II. Strategic Leadership
Chapter . The Strategic Transacting Model
Chapter 2. Your Platform
Part III. Building Blocks of Strategic Leadership
Chapter 3. Linguistics and Emotional Resonance
Chapter 4. Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 5. Interdependent Resonance
Chapter . Listening
Chapter 7. Improv and Body Language Exercises
Chapter 8. How to Influence Behavior
Chapter 9. Presentation Pointers
Chapter 2 . Call to Action Emails
Part IV. Strategic Coaching
Chapter 2 . Your Leadership Style
Chapter 22. Performance Management
Chapter 23. Creating a Winning Culture
Chapter 24. Coaching Habits and Practices
Chapter 25. Team Building
Conclusion
Supportive References
Introduction. The Moment
Chapter . Leadership Development Flaws
Chapter 2. Self-Reflection and Assessment
Chapter 3. Personality Traits
Chapter 4. Your Top Two Traits
Chapter 5. More on the Big Five
Chapter . Head Versus Heart
Chapter 7. Career Branding
Chapter 8. Beware of the Shadow
Chapter 9. Accurate Self-Knowledge
Chapter . The Big Five amp ndash Recap
Part II. Strategic Leadership
Chapter . The Strategic Transacting Model
Chapter 2. Your Platform
Part III. Building Blocks of Strategic Leadership
Chapter 3. Linguistics and Emotional Resonance
Chapter 4. Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 5. Interdependent Resonance
Chapter . Listening
Chapter 7. Improv and Body Language Exercises
Chapter 8. How to Influence Behavior
Chapter 9. Presentation Pointers
Chapter 2 . Call to Action Emails
Part IV. Strategic Coaching
Chapter 2 . Your Leadership Style
Chapter 22. Performance Management
Chapter 23. Creating a Winning Culture
Chapter 24. Coaching Habits and Practices
Chapter 25. Team Building
Conclusion
Supportive References