The Leaders Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation

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The Leaders Pocket Guide provides you with on-the-job expertise to inspire and direct you on your professional journeys.

Organized into three sections--self, colleagues, and organization--this useful guide spurs leaders to be ever growing in their careers, and includes lessons on major leadership concepts like why integrity should be your employees most highly valued trait, how to lead in a way that empowers others to manage, and why you should identify, commit to, and live by six words.

With 101 indispensable tips and tools to explore, youll learn how to:

• deliver inspiration,
• demonstrate character,
• develop confidence,
• communicate with authority,
• think critically,
• foster innovation,
• connect with others,
• resolve conflicts, and more.

You will also discover how to buzz to your leadership brand, coach for development, recognize achievement, instill company-wide purpose, and overcome adversity.

Augmented by up-to-date research on the role of leaders and the expectations followers have for them, The Leaders Pocket Guide contains energizing action tips, clever formulas, self-assessments, and thoughtful places for deeper reflection to spur you toward becoming a top leader in your industry.

Reviews

..". full of tools you can add to your leadership toolbox and immediately put to good use." --Sources of Insight
..".a must-have for every leader and budding-leader who would value a go-to resource to help them in any leadership predicament." --C-Level Strategies
..".fabulous compact guide to all the situations leaders face today, as well as the ones that are forming on the horizon." --Blue Heron Journal
..".immediately implementable advice relevant to leaders at all levels within an organization." --StrategyDriven
..".next best thing to having John as your own personal coach. He shares the lessons he's learned coaching others." --LeadershipNow
..".this book enables readers to become greater influencers in every arena of their lives." --T+D Magazine
"Author John Baldoni is a great leadership thinker and this book encapsulates some of his best thinking." --Leadership & Learning
"Baldoni has amassed a wealth of meaningful insight and suggestions in a compact resource for leaders who want to improve themselves..." --The School Administrator
"Dynamically written and very well organized, both conceptually and visually, readers can pick up good advice just leafing through it." --Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight magazine
"Since leadership is awfully hard, and a 24/7 sort of job, the fact that it's actually pocket-sized, and that its advice is short and pithy, makes it even more useful." --AccountingToday
"This book is indispensable and should be on every manager's bookshelf to be easily accessible and widely used!" --Portland Book Review
"What I like most about John's work is that it is practical. I can put his advice to use immediately." --Leadership Insights
"You'll find the answer, whatever the leadership question, in these pages-and you'll get the message quickly." --Life Insurance Selling magazine

Author Bio

John Baldoni, president of Baldoni Consulting LLC, is an internationally recognised executive coach, speaker, and author. In 2011, Leadership Gurus International ranked John No. 11 on its list of the world's top 30 leadership experts. He is a regular online contributor to CBS MoneyWatch, Inc, and Harvard Business Review.