Unleashing Your Inner Leader: An Executive Coach Tells All (Wiley and SAS Business Series)

Leverage your brand of leadership for maximum results Unleashing Your Inner Leader: Executive Coach Tells All presents the premise that there is a powerful leader inside each of us. The focus is on real life exercises and case studies to help you discover, release, and leverage your inner leader: to reach heights in your career that you never thought possible. The book discusses the individual’s impact on the organization and which professional behaviors most frequently demonstrate leadership competencies. Conduct a “forensic intervention” to find out what is going awry in your professional development, or what has gone wrong in the past, and craft a strategy to overcome obstacles, gain unmistakable clarity about yourself, and focus your abilities to match organizational needs. Great leaders start their assessments from the inside out, and their passion is so strong that it permeates their organizations and builds the culture, regardless of rank. They inspire their teams by sharing the spotlight and encouraging coworkers to excel, operating with clean authenticity to maximize results. Unleashing Your Inner Leader helps you recognize where you fall on the leadership spectrum, and provides practical advice for shaping your brand of leadership to capitalize on your authentic capability and potential. You’ll find expert insight as an executive business coach guides you to: Evaluate your strengths, values, and personal impact to craft a vision for the world around you Discover what’s holding you back from maximum effectiveness Tap into your undiscovered potential, and inspire your team to excellence Recognize what it will take to move you and your organization to 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 the spark that ignites your team, and steer your own development toward becoming an impactful leader with Unleashing Your Inner Leader. Cover 1 Title Page 5 Copyright 6 Contents 11 Preface 15 About Me 17 About the Book 19 Acknowledgments 21 Chapter 1 You and Your Inner Leader 23 Part One of the Book 24 Part Two of the Book 25 Part Three of the Book 26 How to Read This Book 27 Change Model: Unleashing Your Inner Leader 28 About You 29 You and Your Inner Leader Chapter Summary 30 Part One Know Yourself...Authentically 33 Chapter 2 Strengths: Who Are You? 35 What Is a Strength? 36 Using and Leveraging Your Strengths 38 Strengths Exercise 1: Discover Your Strengths 40 Strengths Exercise 2: Building Your Strengths Statements 44 Strengths Exercise 3: Communicating Your Strengths Statements 47 When Strength Becomes a Weakness 48 Strengths Chapter Summary 51 Chapter 3 Values: What Do You Stand For? 53 What Is a Value? 54 Values Drive Decisions and Behaviors 56 When Values Are Misaligned 58 Values Exercise 1: Discover Your Values 61 Values Exercise 2: Align Your Values and Behavior 62 Values Chapter Summary 64 Chapter 4 Impact: What Do You Do? 65 Get Your Results Noticed 66 Impact Exercise 1: Build Your CAR Stories-Challenge, Action, Result 67 What Is Your Career Currency? 73 Impact Exercise 2: Use CAR Stories as a Record of Career Currency 74 CAR Stories for Career Leadership and Success 75 CAR Stories in Performance Reviews 75 CAR Stories in Your Personal Introduction 76 Impact Chapter Summary 82 Chapter 5 Personal Brand: How Do Others See You? 83 What Is a Personal Brand? 84 Personal Branding Is about How Others Perceive You 88 Are You on the Career Ledge? 90 Five Steps toward Personal Branding 93 Personal Brand Exercise 1: Who Are You? 95 Personal Brand Exercise 2: What Do You Do? 95 Personal Brand Exercise 3: What Is Your Unique Promise of Value? 96 Personal Brand Exercise 4: What Are Your Results? 97 Personal Brand Exercise 5: What Are the Benefits of Your Results? 98 Examples: Personal Brand Statements 99 Putting Your Personal Brand to Work 103 Personal Brand Exercise 6: Communicate Your Personal Brand Daily 105 Personal Brand Exercise 7: Communicate Your Personal Brand on Social Media 105 Personal Brand Chapter Summary 106 Part Two Evolve Your Inner Leader 109 Chapter 6 Productivity: How Do You Get Work Done? 111 How Disciplined Are You? 112 The Great DANE 114 What Can You Delegate? 115 What Can You Automate? 118 What Can You Negotiate? 119 What Can You Eliminate? 121 Productivity Exercise 1: Eliminate the Bottom 30 Percent of Your Work 122 Productivity Exercise 2: Say No to One Work Task per Day 123 How Good Are You at Saying No? 124 Managing Your Energy for Success 126 Productivity Exercise 3: Build a Recovery Routine to Sustain Results 128 Productivity Exercise 4: Build a Long-Term Recovery Routine to Sustain Results 129 Productivity Chapter Summary 132 Chapter 7 Mentoring: Helping Others and Helping Yourself 135 What Is Mentoring? 136 Steps to Working with a Mentor 136 Mentoring Exercise: Six Steps to Find and Work with a Mentor 137 What Should I Work on with My Mentor? 139 Mentoring Chapter Summary 140 Chapter 8 Personal Language: What Does Your Language Say about You? 141 Do You Talk Too Much (and Say Nothing)? 143 Do You Ask the Right Questions? 144 Personal Language Exercise 1: Make a List of What Questions 146 Advanced What Question Technique 1: Ask Several What Questions Together 148 Advanced What Question Technique 2: Waterfalling 149 Advanced What Question Technique 3: Expand or Clarify with Numbers 150 Advanced What Question Technique 4: End with a Question 151 Is Your Personal Language Sabotaging Your Effectiveness? 152 Personal Language Exercise 2: Change Your Favorite Phrases 153 Three Tips to Effective Personal Communication 154 Tip 1: Banish the Word Just from Your Vocabulary 154 Tip 2: Never Use but; Always Use and 155 Tip 3: Banish the Word They from Your Vocabulary 156 Personal Language Chapter Summary 157 Chapter 9 Career Evolution: Where Are You Going? 159 What Is Your Next Step? 164 Successful Career Evolution Process Phase 1: Discover Your Story 165 What Is Your Story? 166 Successful Career Evolution Process Phase 2: Network 169 Do You Network? 170 How to Network 171 Networking Obstacles 173 Networking Appreciation 175 Career Evolution Exercise 1: Appreciate Those Who've Helped You 176 Successful Career Evolution Process Phase 3: Interviewing 179 Career Evolution Exercise 2: Tell Your CAR Stories 180 Successful Career Evolution Chapter Summary 183 Chapter 10 Career Evolution: Building Your Leadership Legacy 185 Building Your Leadership Legacy 187 What Is Your Definition of Success? 187 Success Exercise 1: What Will Success Look Like? 188 Success Exercise 2: Uncover Your Subconscious 191 Find Future Success in Your Past 192 Success Exercise 3: Turn off the Self-Doubt and Turn up the Facts 194 Living Your Leadership Legacy 196 Finding Your Own Voice 196 Following the Platinum Rule 197 Sharing Impacts 197 Using Your Personal Brand 198 Maximizing Productivity 199 Mentoring Others 199 Using Effective Personal Language 201 Evolving Your Career 201 Career Evolution: Building Your Leadership Legacy Chapter Summary 202 Part Three Inspire Your Inner Leader 205 Chapter 11 Guiding Principles 207 Guiding Principles 208 Guiding Principles Chapter Summary 217 Chapter 12 Letting Go of Me to Get to Us 219 Letting Go of Me to Get to Us 220 Letting Go of Me to Get to Us Chapter Summary 225 Chapter 13 Reflecting on the Past to Get to the Future 227 Reflecting on the Past to Get to the Future 227 Reflecting on the Past to Get to the Future Chapter Summary 233 Chapter 14 When You Become the Inspiration 235 When You Become the Inspiration 235 When You Become the Inspiration Chapter Summary 240 About the Author 243 Index 245 EULA 259 **Leverage your brand of leadership for maximum results** __Unleashing Your Inner Leader: Executive Coach Tells All__ presents the premise that there is a powerful leader inside each of us. The focus is on real life exercises and case studies to help you discover, release, and leverage your inner leader: to reach heights in your career that you never thought possible. The book discusses the individual’s impact on the organization and which professional behaviors most frequently demonstrate leadership competencies. Conduct a “forensic intervention” to find out what is going awry in your professional development, or what has gone wrong in the past, and craft a strategy to overcome obstacles, gain unmistakable clarity about yourself, and focus your abilities to match organizational needs. Great leaders start their assessments from the inside out, and their passion is so strong that it permeates their organizations and builds the culture, regardless of rank. They inspire their teams by sharing the spotlight and encouraging coworkers to excel, operating with clean authenticity to maximize results. __Unleashing Your Inner Leader__ helps you recognize where you fall on the leadership spectrum, and provides practical advice for shaping your brand of leadership to capitalize on your authentic capability and potential. You’ll find expert insight as an executive business coach guides you to: * Evaluate your strengths, values, and personal impact to craft a vision for the world around you * Discover what’s holding you back from maximum effectiveness * Tap into your undiscovered potential, and inspire your team to excellence * Recognize what it will take to move you and your organization to the next level __Unleashing Your Inner Leader.__ This book presents the premise that there is a powerful leader inside each of us. The focus is on real life exercises and case studies to help you discover, release, and leverage your inner leader to reach heights in your career that you never thought possible. It discusses the individual's impact on the organization and which professional behaviors most frequently demonstrate leadership competencies. Conduct a forensic intervention to find out what is going awry in your professional development, or what has gone wrong in the past, and craft a strategy to overcome obstacles, gain unmistakable clarity about yourself, and focus your abilities to match organizational needs. It will help you recognize where you fall on the leadership spectrum, and provides practical advice for shaping your brand of leadership to capitalize on your authentic capability and potential. -- Edited summary from book