new release to elevate your leadership
THE PEOPLE SMART LEADER, 2024 PUBLICATION
The People Smart Leader: Five Keys to Inspire Others to Do Their Best Work
By Lindiwe S. Lester, President, Tap In Consulting
The leader’s most important role is to deploy finely tuned “people” skills to work with and through people to achieve exceptional work results.
Today’s leaders possess high job-related technical skills. Yet, their staffers report high dissatisfaction, disinterest, and disconnection with their jobs and often their supervising leaders.
Do any of these questions resonate with you as you lead your team?
Why don’t my people seem motivated? How do I get my team aligned and working towards the same goals? How can I reduce my stress and accomplish more? Why am I working harder, getting less done, and doing others’ work? Why do I have to manage all these different personalities? How can I give feedback my people will receive? How do I create an environment that inspires people to deliver their best work?
The “People Smart” Leader offers you practical support to answer these and other “people” competency questions. The book encourages you to do the work to enhance your proficiencies and recalibrate your mindset. It targets value-adding skills and approaches and includes development tools, reflections, and processes to put them into practice.
The Five Keys are deliberately simple labels for the complex work of “people smart leadership”—Lead, Connect, Coach, Develop and Perform. Work through them individually or with a leadership development group.
Now available for purchase: $24.95
2022 publication
Take your leadership to the next level
Take your leadership to the next level
Take your leadership to the next level
If there is one book that would be pivotal to you leading your people masterfully, this is it.
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Take your leadership to the next level
Take your leadership to the next level
Two Exciting Books With Six Major Benefits
Whether you’re a tenured or new people-leader, engaged in team professional development, or conducting self-study, the concepts, stories, reflections, best and better practices, and exercises are sure to enhance both your leader competence and confidence.
1. Prepare emerging leaders
Great resource for emerging leaders and succession planning efforts. Discover strengths and blind spots along with real strategies to step up to their next level.
2. Fine-tune “people leadership” competence
Work through exercises to reflect on contemporary leader competencies, your strengths, mindset, beliefs, presence, and emotional management to better deploy talents, release antiquated habits and help you and your team thrive.
3. Accelerate transition to new role
Use the book, especially the “Your Launch into Leadership“ chapter to prepare for success, avoid common missteps and thrive early within a new organizational culture and with your new direct reports.
4. Support talent management initiatives
This is an excellent book for to use as required reading for all manager and leader development initiatives. It prompts many individual ahas, which saves time ”telling” in trainings. Convert the content into learning modules or for learning communities.
5. Build synergies for any work group/team
Chapters are devoted to team members building both awareness and heightened skills individually, to then engage these assets effectively and synergistically with the collective team to maximize performance and satisfaction.
6. Direct reports can use it too
Having direct reports read the book broadens their knowledge of and appreciation for the leader experience. And, importantly, it builds skills and approaches to “manage up.”