Book description
First-time leaders get motivational and planning tools from top executive coaching firms
The First-Time Leader provides basic frameworks, processes, and tools to help first-time leaders and their teams deliver better results faster. Leading is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together, to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. Authors George Bradt, Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, and Gillian Davis, Managing Director of AlanKey, show how to achieve these results through the BRAVE acronym: Behaviors, Relationships, Attitudes, Values, Environment. Learn the three stages of team development, and get advice for specific leadership situations including onboarding yourself, onboarding others, and crisis management.
Offers a way of thinking about leadership and a structure for action to help first-time leaders lead at both overall conceptual and tactical levels
Includes downloadable tools that are easily adaptable for each leader's specific context
Contains illustrative examples and stories from a range of experienced leaders and experts to help guide first-time leaders through things they may not have experienced themselves
The First-Time Leader shows new leaders what to do next, later, never, why, and how. It's an indispensible guide for stepping up and inspiring others to come together for success.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
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Part I: Getting Started
- Chapter 1: Overview: Congratulations! It’s Great to Be a Leader. You’ve Earned It. And Your New Job Is Going to Be a Wild Ride
- Chapter 2: Take Charge of Your New Team
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Chapter 3: The BRAVE Leadership Success Framework: Behaviors, Relationships, Attitude, Values, Environment
- Behaviors: How You Get Things Done through Other People
- Relationships: The Heart of Leadership
- Attitude: Make Crucial Choices around Your Team’s Strategy, Posture, and Culture
- Values: Align Yourself and Your Team with the Organization’s Mission, Vision, and Values—More or Less
- Environment: Get Clear on Your Mission and Fields of Action
- Building up the BRAVE Leadership Framework from the Outside In
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Part II: Build Your BRAVE Leadership from the Outside In
- Chapter 4: Environment: Get Clear on Your Mission and Fields of Action
- Chapter 5: Values: Align Yourself and Your Team with the Organization’s Mission, Vision, and Values—More or Less
- Chapter 6: Attitude: Make Crucial Choices around Your Team’s Strategy, Posture, and Culture
- Chapter 7: Relationships: The Heart of Leadership
- Chapter 8: Behaviors: How You Get Things Done through Other People
- Part III: Leading Small, Medium, and Large Teams
- References
- About the Authors
- Index
Product information
- Title: First-Time Leader: Foundational Tools for Inspiring and Enabling Your New Team
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118828120
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