Leveraging Your Leadership Style: Maximize Your Influence by Discovering the Leader Within - Hardcover

Jackson, John; Bosse-Smith, Lorraine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0687653975 ISBN 13: 9780687653973

Publisher: Abingdon Pr, 2008

Synopsis

Many current writers on leadership suggest that because leaders are born, that position and power are the key factors. Leveraging Your Leadership Style challenges EVERY person to recognize that since leadership is influence, EVERYONE is a leader. Each person who has influence in the lives of others has a leadership opportunity. Self-leadership, family leadership, work-team leadership, and community leadership are all about people learning to tap into and trust their leadership potential and their leadership style! Seizing the leadership opportunities in your life by understanding your own style and the style of others, coupled with commitment to integrity and a clear vision of a preferable future, will facilitate maximum impact in your leadership life. Leadership is a matter of motivating, encouraging and guiding people to a destination together. Leaders take people where they might not dare to go if left to their own devices. In order to accomplish this, leaders utilize a leadership style. Many styles of leadership exist, but what Leveraging Your Leadership Style will do is go a step further into understanding how each person leads based upon their unique, God-given personality or specific temperament. Each person has a leader within, but they must tap into their unique strengths and improve on their weaknesses in order to be the leader God intended them to be.

About this title

About the Author

John is the President of William Jessup University. John has co-founded a national ministry, led one of the 40 largest churches in America, and has been a successful church planter, senior pastor, and staff member of local churches. Dr. Jackson earned both his Ph.D. and M.A. in Educational Administration and Organizational Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A. in Theology (Christian Formation and Discipleship) at Fuller Theological Seminary; and a B.A. in Religion (Christian History and Thought) from Chapman University. His strong background in executive and organizational leadership allows him to mentor leaders to strengthen their organizational development and communication skills. Dr. Jackson is also the author of Finding Your Place in God's Plan, God Size Your Church, Leveraging Your Communication Style, Pastorpreneur, and High Impact Church Planting. Dr. Jackson is married to Pamela Harrison Jackson, and they make their home in Rocklin, CA.

Synopsis

"Leveraging Your Leadership Style" is not your typical leadership book! It takes the guesswork out of the equation and sets readers up for greater success with its exclusive BIT (Behavior Individuality Trait) assessment. Readers will discover their unique leadership style and learn how to maximize their strengths in order to get the results they seek. The book identifies four distinct leadership styles: the Commander; the Coach; the Counselor; and the Conductor. Authors John Jackson and Lorraine Bosse'-Smith bring forty-plus years of collective business and people experience to this dynamic, fast, yet informative book that will help any people in any position be the leaders God intended them to be.

Edition details

• Publisher: Abingdon Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0687653975
• ISBN 13: 9780687653973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 121