The Leadership Contract Field Guide : The Personal Roadmap to Becoming a Truly Accountable Leader

Commit to great leadership and implement it today The Leadership Contract Field Guide provides a practical blueprint for implementing the Leadership Contract. Reading is one thing, but new ideas cannot be useful until they are put into practice--so now it is time to commit. Review the major tenets of great leadership, internalize them, and look around at your organization; what does your organization currently need the most? Where is the clear deficit? What do your people most need right now to work to their full potential? That’s where you start. Decisions? Make them. Obligations? Fulfill them. Hard work? Toughen up. Leadership is a privilege and a responsibility, and this book shows you how to move from conceptualizing “great leadership” into practicing great leadership--starting today. This guide summarizes what you learned in The Leadership Contract , and integrates that knowledge into real-world actions that make you more effective, while new discussion on accountability draws from research and case studies from major organizations to give you fresh perspective and valuable insight. The result is a clear roadmap to high performance, and you’re standing on the starting line--are you ready to go? Review the key points of what it means to lead Focus on accountability and fulfilling obligations Identify and accommodate organizational needs Implement the Contract to become a more effective leader Your employees are your biggest, most valuable asset, and you should be theirs. You need to equip them to succeed, motivate them to achieve, and inspire them to new heights with each and every interaction. In word and in deed, you must walk the walk every single day. This is what great leadership looks like, and it is already inside of you. The Leadership Contract Field Guide gives you a systematic blueprint for unleashing your very best and achieving so much more. "The Leadership Contract Field Guide is an essential tool for leaders and managers to implement each step of the Leadership Contract implementation process. Using the author's deep leadership accountability research and case studies from major organizations, the field guide not only summarizes and integrates everything you've learned in the previous Leadership Contracts, but also introduces new content that resonates with organizational needs around leadership accountability. This Field Guide provides a blueprint for readers and guides them towards becoming an exceptional leader that their employees deserve."-- Provided by publisher Providing a practical blueprint for implementing the Leadership Contract, this book offers activities, exercises and ideas for sustaining your impact as an accountable leader, and insights on how to leverage the leadership contract with your team and across your organization. -- Edited summary from book