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Leading with emotional courage: how to have hard conversations, create accountability, and inspire action on your most important work
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Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
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Contributors
Bregman, Peter Author
ISBN
9781119505693
9781119505679
9781119505679
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Element one: Build your confidence. Know who your are. Be yourself: the high cost of conformity, and how to avoid it
Find your ground: stay steady, balanced, and calm
Stay curious about yourself: how to ask for feedback that will actually help you
Access self-compassion: the problem with high expectations
Embrace your shadow: how to avoid becoming the person you hate
It's not all about achievement: stop worrying about how much you matter
Part two: Become who you want to be. Find clarity: What's your one big theme?
Become more of who you are: you're already pretty amazing
Stay focused: you need to practice being your future self
Be strategic and intentional: five steps to investing your energy more wisely
Don't lose yourself in pursuit of becoming yourself: take your life back
How will you measure success?: why you should treat laughter as a metric
Element two: Connect with others. Be curious and trusting. The impact of trust: the real secret of thoroughly excellent companies
Stay open: how to really listen
Stay curious about others: people can't be summed up by personality tests
Stay creative: Are you trying to solve the wrong problem?
Be useful: hold the baby
Make people feel good: how not to lose a sale
Be clear and trustworthy. Everyone is contagious: how to use your superpower for good
Use fear as a guide: how to talk about what you most dread
Lead with the punchline: how to start a hard conversation
Skillful communication in the heat of the moment: outsmart your next angry outburst
Own your stuff: I want you to apologize
Let others know you see them: 20 seconds to a better bonus
Element three: Commit to purpose. Energize your focus. Play hard: Nadal is strong enough to cry; are you?
Know where you're going: define your big arrow
Focus where it matters: four areas to focus your attention
Use your focus as a filter: use your first day back from vacation to energize your focus
You can't say it enough: the mouthwash principle: for energized focus, rinse and repeat
And sometimes it's better to say less: if you want people to listen, stop talking
Focus their energy. Gifted, game, and generous: three qualities all leaders need to cultivate within their teams
Engage from the beginning: the farm-to-table method of focusing the energy of your team
Helping others be trustworthy: the secret to ensuring follow-through
Creating accountability: five building blocks for a culture of accountability
Bigger than you: why leaders should try to be overwhelmed
Improving performance after a critical error (PACE): how to react when someone disappoints
Element four: Cultivate emotional courage. Feel courageously. Know what you are feeling: develop your awareness
Feeling is physical: dance with your monster
Practice feeling: Embracing temptation
Feel uncertainty: the emotional adventure of leadership
Be willing to feel the hard stuff: why leaders must feel pain
Feel everything: allow for complexity
Act boldly. Risk is the key to leadership: unlocking your success equation
Build your risk muscle: the small personal risks that change behavior
Make a decision: act boldly to get moving
Risk truth: It's your job to tell the bold truths
Try something different: the unexpected power of inauthenticity
The limitless possibility of now: a question that can change your life.
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