Self-Coaching Leadership: Simple Steps from Manager to Leader - Hardcover

McLeod Ph.D., Angus I.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470512806 ISBN 13: 9780470512807

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2007

Synopsis

Generally, leadership is about influencing people to make big things happen. Management is a process of organizing people to get things done. They are different skills, but equally critical to success in today’s workplace. The key is to know which approach works best in which situation.

Written in a clear, simple style, Self-Coaching Leadership redefines and demystifies the journey to leadership. Angus McLeod’s no-nonsense thinking, straightforward approach and practical tools enable readers to more easily identify when a leader is needed - and coach themselves toward improved influence, performance and effectiveness.

About this title

About the Author

ANGUS MCLEOD PhD is a renowned and well respected coach and author of Performance Coaching: The Handbook for Managers, HR Professional and Coaches (2003), Me, Myself, My Team: How to Become an Effective Team Player Using NLP (2000) and numerous journals articles.
Angus continues to influence the coaching profession through his on-line mentoring service 'Ask Max' and leadership of The Coaching Foundation, an organization that offers career development opportunities to professional coaches.
He is a competitive rower, an advanced trainer in motorcycling and a passionate cook.
For more information please contact ourinfo@angusmcleod.com
www@angusmcleod.com

From the Back Cover

"Angus McLeod has produced a Master Companion for every executive. Leadership can be learned and this book is a highly effective and easy way to learn it."
―Richard Denny, CEO, The Richard Denny Group

"This book is a 'must read' for busy people interested in being better leaders, managers or in improving their overall quality of life."
―Edward Fahy, Senior Manager, DuPont, Wilmington, DE

"Dr McLeod's book is brilliant in its simplicity and packed with no-nonsense thinking and common sense."
―Will Thomas, author of Coaching Solutions and Coaching Solutions Workbook

"Angus has written a rich and practical book that brings together a great breadth of knowledge, understanding and experience while making sure that there is much that the reader can take away and do. For anyone at all interested in the sort of Leadership that actually makes a difference this is a 'must read'."
―Myles Downey, founder of The School of Coaching and author of Effective Coaching

"Angus McLeod offers strategies for challenging and or supporting the key governors of growth and development in the organization."
―Judith DeLozier, co-founder of NLP

"…so many new models and processes to use it felt like Christmas."
―Karen Donley, HR Director, MBDA, BAe

"Comprehensive, compelling and readable."
―Michael Byrne, CEO, QBC, Eire

"McLeod has done it again, he has produced a self-improvement guide for leaders which is as simple as it can be but no simpler."
―Professor David Megginson, Professor of HRD, Sheffield Hallam University

From the Inside Flap

Leadership is about influencing people to make big things happen. Management is a process of organizing people to get things done. They are different skills, but equally critical to success in today's workplace. The key is to know which approach works best in which situation.

Written in a clear, simple style, Self-Coaching Leadership redefines and demystifies the journey to leadership. Angus McLeod's no-nonsense thinking, straightforward approach and practical tools enable readers to more easily identify when a leader is needed - and coach themselves toward improved influence, performance and effectiveness.

Highlights of the book:

• This is an evidence-based book that redefines the skills of management and leadership.
• Deals with today's key management and leadership issues, including long hours, stress, task prioritization and life balance, addressing each with actionable tools.
• Takes readers from their own self-leadership to the strategic leadership of an organization.
• Includes methods that have been successfully applied in the real world by managers who have undertaken coaching with the author.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470512806
• ISBN 13: 9780470512807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320