Handbook for Leaders (MGMT & LEADERSHIP) - Softcover

Zenger, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1259584828 ISBN 13: 9781259584824

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education, 2015

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Discover your strengths, produce exponential results, and increase the bottom line

Based on solid empirical research, The Handbook for Leaders reveals the keys to becoming an extraordinary leader, showing you how-and why-to focus on your core strengths rather than correcting your weaknesses. This precise, no-nonsense rulebook outlines the essential competencies and guidelines for effective leadership, including:

Focus on results

Cultivate interpersonal skills

Lead organizational change

Learn from your mistakes

Develop your people

Build positive relationships

Be open to new ideas

Take initiative

Fix fatal flaws

Take a nonlinear approach

Be accountable

The Handbook for Leaders shows you how to develop and implement the proficiencies you need to gain the respect and support of your people, enhance productivity and individual performance, and make an enormous contribution to the long-term success of your organization.

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Discover your strengths, produce exponential results, and increase the bottom line

Based on solid empirical research, The Handbook for Leaders reveals the keys to becoming an extraordinary leader, showing you how-and why-to focus on your core strengths rather than correcting your weaknesses. This precise, no-nonsense rulebook outlines the essential competencies and guidelines for effective leadership, including:

Focus on results

Cultivate interpersonal skills

Lead organizational change

Learn from your mistakes

Develop your people

Build positive relationships

Be open to new ideas

Take initiative

Fix fatal flaws

Take a nonlinear approach

Be accountable

The Handbook for Leaders shows you how to develop and implement the proficiencies you need to gain the respect and support of your people, enhance productivity and individual performance, and make an enormous contribution to the long-term success of your organization.

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The Handbook for Leaders gives you two dozen proven lessons for becoming an extraordinary leader. Based on the findings from more than 200,000 assessments of 20,000 leaders across North America and Europe, this practical guidebook identifies the key competencies to effective leadership and provides you with a systematic program for attaining, developing, and implementing those vital skills. You'll find invaluable tips and pointers for leading others on every page, including:

The 16 behaviors that differentiate the best leaders from the least effective

Methods for focusing on your core strengths rather than correcting your weaknesses

Advice on building strong personal character and cultivating interpersonal skills

The keys to focusing on and producing sustained, impressive results

Guidelines for finding your leadership “sweet spot” and using it to add value and improve performance ratings

Strategies for envisioning and creating successful organizational change

Ways to learn from and utilize feedback

The Handbook for Leaders is your one-stop guide for developing the competencies you need to take initiative and lead your company to a productive, profitable future.

John H. Zenger D.B.A., is the CEO and co-founder of Zenger/Folkman, a firm that employs evidence-based, positive methods to strengthen organizations and those who lead them. In 1994 he was inducted into the Human Resource Development Hall of Fame. He is the author or co-author of seven books on leadership and teams and is considered one of the most authoritative voices on improving organizational performance and developing leadership.

Joseph Folkman, Ph.D.,PhD., is the President and co-founder of Zenger/Folkman. He is a renowned expert in the field of survey design and data analysis. His passion to provide feedback and facilitate change is the source of his professional success. He is the author of four other books: Turning Feedback Into Change, Making Feedback Work, Employee Surveys That Make a Difference, and The Power of Feedback.

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• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1259584828
• ISBN 13: 9781259584824
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128