The Four Vs of Leadership: Vision, Values, Value-added and Vitality - Softcover

Peter Shaw

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841126985 ISBN 13: 9781841126982

Publisher: Capstone, 2006

Synopsis

The Four Vs - Vision, Values, Value-added and Vitality – are the essential ingredients of effective leadership. They provide a framework for life and work that interrelates professional and personal priorities.

In The Four V’s of Leadership, experienced executive coach Peter Shaw leads you through difficult career and life situations using the four Vs, helping you to vision where you want to be, harness the values that drive you, release the value-added you bring to a role and grow your sources of vitality.

By working with this framework, your vision will become clearer. It might be a specific vision in terms of your work or your community. You will enable change to happen. Your values will be consistent across each aspect of your life. You will be looking at all your decisions in relation to your values. Your value-added will become clearer in each aspect of your life. You will not be daunted for long by setbacks but will develop the resilience to maintain your value-added whatever the pressures. You will move on from rigid definitions of work-life balance. You will find new sources of vitality and energy and use your time to influence others constructively. You will experiment with different ways of ensuring freshness and joy in your life.

Be ready to be challenged and inspired.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Shaw CB is a partner with Praesta Partners and a highly experienced executive coach working with senior members of the public, private and voluntary sectors. His clients range from blue chip companies such as Accenture and Shell to No 10 Downing Street, The Home Office and HM Treasury as well as organisations such as Tradecraft.

Prior to becoming a coach Peter held three Director General Posts and worked in five Government Departments (Treasury, Education, Employment, Environment and Transport). He has delivered major national changes such as radically different pay arrangements for teachers and employment initiatives and led the mergers of several major government departments. As Finance Director he managed a £40 billion budget and introduced radical changes in funding and accountability arrangements. He was educated at Durham University.

From the Back Cover

The Four Vs are the cornerstones of both our work and personal lives.

Vision: Who do we want to be? What are our essential characteristics and how do we want to develop this vision of ourselves in our work, in our family and in our community?

Values: What are the values that shape and drive us? How can we harness our values to help our own fulfilment and the wellbeing of those around us? How do we ensure our values are our biggest assets and not our worst liability?

Value-Added: What are our unique strengths? How can we develop them and use them to the best effect? How can we add value in a wider range of different situations?

Vitality: What is at the heart of what gives us energy? How can we grow this energy and extend it into different areas of our lives?

Peter Shaw provides a framework to help you grow and make a step change through reflection on what success is and the nature of courage and calmness. Be ready to be challenged and surprised.

From the Inside Flap

The Four Vs - Vision, values, value-added and vitality - are the corners of a diamond, which taken together are the essential ingredients of effective leadership. Using coaching approaches that he has tried and tested, experienced coach Peter Shaw leads you through difficult career, work and life situations. He shows you how to link all of the Vs so that they light up both your work and your life.

By working with this framework:

Your vision will become clearer. It might be a specific vision in terms of your work or your community. You will enable change to happen.

Your values will be consistent across each aspect of your life. You will be looking at all your decisions in relation to your values.

Your value added will become clearer in each aspect of your life. You will not be daunted for long by setbacks but will develop the resilience to maintain your value-added whatever the pressures.

You will move on from rigid definitions of work-life balance. You will find new sources of vitality and energy and use your time to influence others constructively. You will experiment with different ways of ensuring freshness and joy in your life.

Questions at the end of each chapter help you reflect upon what you have learned.

Edition details

• Publisher: Capstone
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841126985
• ISBN 13: 9781841126982
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236