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Seven Questions

How to Make a Team Think for Itself

1. Why Advice Is Overrated and Curiosity Wins
2. The Neuroscience of a Good Question
3. Opening Moves: How to Start Any Conversation That Matters
4. The Trap of Rushing to Solve
5. Getting to the Real Issue Beneath the Surface
6. Pulling the Full Story Out of Someone
7. Naming What People Actually Want
8. Saying No Without Burning Bridges
9. Turning Reflection Into a Daily Ritual
10. When Silence Does the Heavy Lifting
11. Coaching in the Hallway: Micro-Conversations That Shift Culture
12. Working With Remote and Hybrid Teams
13. Handling Pushback, Defensiveness, and Tough Personalities
14. Building the Habit That Sticks After You Close This Book

A SHORT COURSE IN TEAM LEADERSHIP BASICS. 7 Lessons in Leading Teams&nbsp;is a quick course in team leadership, giving you everything you need to know in just seven short chapters. From exploring what a great team looks like, gaining respect and setting common goals, to communication, culture and managing remote or virtual teams, you'll explore the entire process of being a successful team leader including the key dos and don'ts you need to focus on. * Lesson 1: Getting started with your team * Lesson 2: Alignment and goal setting * Lesson 3: Delegating and managing * Lesson 4: Optimal communication * Lesson 5: Motivating poor performers * Lesson 6: Inspiring high performers * Lesson 7: Creating a culture of excellence Explore the main themes and ideas in team leadership, get a basic knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, and test your progress with practical and thought-provoking exercises.&nbsp;7 Lessons in&nbsp;Leading Teams&nbsp;is your fastest route to success. ABOUT THE SERIES 7 Lessons&nbsp;are for people who want to succeed at work. From negotiating and content marketing to finance and social media, the series covers the business topics that matter and that will help you make a difference today. Written in straightforward English, each book features a course of 7 short lessons so that with just a little work, you can quickly master the subject.

Master the Basics of Team Leadership in 7 Steps

7 Lessons in Leading Teams

The Right Altitude Field Guides

The most expensive silence in leadership is the conversation you're not having.

Every leader has one. The direct report you're managing around. The peer conflict you keep hoping resolves itself. The feedback that's a month overdue. Leadership stalls in the gap between knowing you need to say something and saying it. And the longer you wait, the more it costs, usually your best people first. The high performer is watching. She's doing the math. The conversation you keep avoiding with the one who's struggling is writing the resignation letter for the one who isn't.

Here's what most advice misses: leaders don't avoid hard conversations because they lack courage. They avoid them because they lack a framework. They don't know how to start, how to stay in it when it gets uncomfortable, or how to close it in a way that keeps the relationship intact.

This field guide gives you that framework. It's a practical arc you can work through before you walk in, built around 5 phases:

Reading the Situation. The Red / Yellow / Green framework sorts every conversation in your queue by emotional risk. Most of the ones you're avoiding are Yellows you've convinced yourself are Reds. The point is to have Yellow conversations while they're still Yellow. You'll also learn when not to have the conversation yet, and how to tell patience from avoidance.

Preparation. The Three-Point Prep: a compass, not a script. 3 points, an opening line you can say in under 10 seconds, a 1-sentence outcome, and the anchor sentence that handles tears, anger, denial and deflection: "I hear you. And I still need to say this."

Delivery. Open with clarity in the first 2 minutes. Leave no room for interpretation. Hold the silence for 5 seconds. Regulate yourself when they react. Use the redirect when the conversation drifts. Close with commitment, not relief.

Follow-Through. The 48-hour follow-up, documentation as a clarity exercise, pattern monitoring, and the moment coaching becomes a performance issue. The conversation isn't over when you leave the room.

The Specific Conversations. The 4 that leaders dread most: the performance gap, the boundary, the peer conflict, and the one with your boss. Includes the 3 conversations inside every performance conversation (coaching, pattern, consequences) and the Data-First Rule for upward conversations.

Start with the diagnostic to find where you break down, then go straight to the phase that fixes it. Every phase comes with coaching questions, a What Builds It / What Erodes It list, and a 48-hour experiment you can run this week. Section Three names the 5 avoidance patterns (the Soft Landing, the Endless Postponement, the Proxy, the Vent, and the Hint) and shows why the leaders who have the most hard conversations end up needing the fewest.

The stories are drawn from coaching conversations with leaders stuck in exactly this spot.

The conversation is almost never as bad as the avoidance. The worry always takes longer than the talk. The point was never to understand hard conversations. It's to have the one you're avoiding.

Part of The Right Altitude Field Guide series: short, practical guides by executive coach Don Eash, MCC, ACTC.

Having the Talk You've Been Avoiding

The Right Altitude Field Guide to Hard Conversations

The Innovation Code The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict Harmony is sublime in music but deadly to innovation. The only way to create new, hybrid solutions is to clash. Innovation happens when we bring people with contrasting perspectives and complementary areas of expertise together in one room. We innovate best with people who challenge us, not people who agree with us. It sounds like a recipe for chaos and confusion. But in The Innovation Code, Jeff DeGraff, dubbed the “Dean of Innovation,” and Staney DeGraff introduce a simple framework to explain the ways different kinds of thinkers and leaders can create constructive conflict in any organization. This positive tension produces ingenious solutions that go far beyond “the best of both worlds.” Drawing on their work with nearly half of the Fortune 500 companies, the DeGraffs help you harness the creative energy that arises from opposing viewpoints. They identify four contrasting styles of innovator—the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage—and include exercises and assessments for building, managing, and embracing the dynamic discord of a team that contains all four. You can also figure out where you fit on the continuum of innovator archetypes. Using vivid examples, The Innovation Code offers four steps to normalize conflict and channel it to develop something completely new. By following these simple steps, you will get breakthrough innovations that are both good for you and your customers. This is a rigorous but highly accessible guide for achieving breakthrough solutions by utilizing the full—and seemingly contradictory—spectrum of innovative thinking.

The Innovation Code The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict Harmony is sublime in music but deadly to innovation. The only way to create new, hybrid solutions is to clash. Innovation happens when we bring people with contrasting perspectives and complementary areas of expertise together in one room. We innovate best with people who challenge us, not people who agree with us. It sounds like a recipe for chaos and confusion. But in The Innovation Code, Jeff DeGraff, dubbed the “Dean of Innovation,” and Staney DeGraff introduce a simple framework to explain the ways different kinds of thinkers and leaders can create constructive conflict in any organization. This positive tension produces ingenious solutions that go far beyond “the best of both worlds.” Drawing on their work with nearly half of the Fortune 500 companies, the DeGraffs help you harness the creative energy that arises from opposing viewpoints. They identify four contrasting styles of innovator—the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage—and include exercises and assessments for building, managing, and embracing the dynamic discord of a team that contains all four. You can also figure out where you fit on the continuum of innovator archetypes. Using vivid examples, The Innovation Code offers four steps to normalize conflict and channel it to develop something completely new. By following these simple steps, you will get breakthrough innovations that are both good for you and your customers. This is a rigorous but highly accessible guide for achieving breakthrough solutions by utilizing the full—and seemingly contradictory—spectrum of innovative thinking.

The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict

The Innovation Code

&lt;b&gt;Leverage your authentic self into a valuable leadership strategy&lt;/b&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Art of Authenticity&lt;/i&gt; is a guide to becoming a better leader by achieving your best self. All people bring different sides of themselves to various situations. This book will show you how to broaden and deepen your effectiveness by presenting the most appropriate side of yourself. Dr. Karissa Thacker is the management psychologist called on by over two hundred Fortune 500 companies to work with high potential leaders. This book provides you with her expert guidance, based on validated psychological research and artful application of psychological principles to actual business situations, to help you become an authentic leader. You'll learn how to lead through reflection, action, and conscious choice, and how to maintain your guiding principles while effectively leading your team. By replacing habitual reactions with authentic ones, you'll find that you're modeling good behavior and effective decision-making—and that authenticity is contagious. This guide equips you with the tools and skills you need to be the catalyst of positive change your organization needs. &lt;p&gt;How do you remain authentic while being an effective leader? This book argues that the question isn't a duality. Authenticity is the best way to lead, and the only way to maintain sustainable success as an organization. This insightful guide shows you how to find your authentic self, and leverage that into an effective, executable leadership strategy. &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Become authentic in a way that befits your values&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Show loyalty, honesty, ethics, and consideration&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Maintain authenticity in leadership roles&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Make conscious choices instead of blind reactions&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Some are born to lead, other must be taught, but &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; leaders must work to retain their own values and basic sense of self. A simple pause can mean the difference between a knee-jerk reaction and an authentic decision, and the effects ripple throughout your organization. &lt;i&gt;The Art of Authenticity&lt;/i&gt; is your guidebook to finding the true authentic leader within, and leading from the inside out for the long haul. &lt;p&gt; 

Karissa Thacker

Tools to Become an Authentic Leader and Your Best Self

The Art of Authenticity

Leverage your authentic self into a valuable leadership strategy

The Art of Authenticity is a guide to becoming a better leader by achieving your best self. All people bring different sides of themselves to various situations. This book will show you how to broaden and deepen your effectiveness by presenting the most appropriate side of yourself. Dr. Karissa Thacker is the management psychologist called on by over two hundred Fortune 500 companies to work with high potential leaders. This book provides you with her expert guidance, based on validated psychological research and artful application of psychological principles to actual business situations, to help you become an authentic leader. You'll learn how to lead through reflection, action, and conscious choice, and how to maintain your guiding principles while effectively leading your team. By replacing habitual reactions with authentic ones, you'll find that you're modeling good behavior and effective decision-making--and that authenticity is contagious. This guide equips you with the tools and skills you need to be the catalyst of positive change your organization needs.

How do you remain authentic while being an effective leader? This book argues that the question isn't a duality. Authenticity is the best way to lead, and the only way to maintain sustainable success as an organization. This insightful guide shows you how to find your authentic self, and leverage that into an effective, executable leadership strategy.
* Become authentic in a way that befits your values
* Show loyalty, honesty, ethics, and consideration
* Maintain authenticity in leadership roles
* Make conscious choices instead of blind reactions

Some are born to lead, other must be taught, but all leaders must work to retain their own values and basic sense of self. A simple pause can mean the difference between a knee-jerk reaction and an authentic decision, and the effects ripple throughout your organization. The Art of Authenticity is your guidebook to finding the true authentic leader within, and leading from the inside out for the long haul.

Leverage your authentic self into a valuable leadership strategy    The Art of Authenticity is a guide to becoming a better leader by achieving your best self. All people bring different sides of themselves to various situations.

Veteran project manager and University of California professor Zachary Wong identifies the eight most common people problems in managing projects and offers a flexible, customizable approach to solving them, based on a lifetime of research. Zachary Wong offers practical strategies, skills, and tools to help project managers diagnose and solve their toughest people problems. Based on decades in the trenches, the book shows how to confront and correct bad behavior, increase team performance and inclusion, turn around difficult people and poor performers, get people to do what you want them to do, boost employee motivation and attitude, reduce change resistance and risk aversion, and manage difficult bosses. Wong believes that the best team leaders are problem-solvers and facilitators, so this book provides problem-solving models and tools to diagnose people problems, and facilitative methods, processes, and techniques to correct them. It's an approach that can be personalized to fit any person or situation. Each skill is explained with a well-balanced mix of case stories, examples, strategies, processes, tools, and techniques along with illustrations, graphics, tables, and other visuals to clarify key concepts and their workplace application. To reinforce the most important learnings, Wong includes a "Memory Card" and "Skill Summary" at the end of each chapter. Nothing is harder than leading people and managing project teams. Being successful takes a combination of knowing human psychology, organizational behaviors, and human factors; having supervisory, process, and communication skills; ensuring good teamwork, high integrity, and strong leadership; and having the ability to integrate and apply these skills to a diverse work team. The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management is designed for individuals, team leaders, and managers who oversee and coordinate the daily performance of others and who are seeking solutions that they can apply immediately.

Veteran project manager and University of California professor Zachary Wong identifies the eight most common people problems in managing projects and offers a flexible, customizable approach to solving them, based on a lifetime of research. Zachary Wong offers practical strategies, skills, and tools to help project managers diagnose and solve their toughest people problems. Based on decades in the trenches, the book shows how to confront and correct bad behavior, increase team performance and inclusion, turn around difficult people and poor performers, get people to do what you want them to do, boost employee motivation and attitude, reduce change resistance and risk aversion, and manage difficult bosses. Wong believes that the best team leaders are problem-solvers and facilitators, so this book provides problem-solving models and tools to diagnose people problems, and facilitative methods, processes, and techniques to correct them. It's an approach that can be personalized to fit any person or situation. Each skill is explained with a well-balanced mix of case stories, examples, strategies, processes, tools, and techniques along with illustrations, graphics, tables, and other visuals to clarify key concepts and their workplace application. To reinforce the most important learnings, Wong includes a "Memory Card" and "Skill Summary" at the end of each chapter. Nothing is harder than leading people and managing project teams. Being successful takes a combination of knowing human psychology, organizational behaviors, and human factors; having supervisory, process, and communication skills; ensuring good teamwork, high integrity, and strong leadership; and having the ability to integrate and apply these skills to a diverse work team. The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management is designed for individuals, team leaders, and managers who oversee and coordinate the daily performance of others and who are seeking solutions that they can apply immediately.

Solving the Most Common People Problems for Team Leaders

The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management

From the bestselling author of The Speed of Trust, a revolutionary leadership book for managers, teams, and organizations deemed “the defining leadership book in the 21st century” (Admiral William McRaven, author of Make Your Bed) that “every parent, teacher, and leader needs” (Esther Wojcicki, author of How to Raise Successful People). We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Most organizations, teams, schools, and families today still operate from a model of “command and control,” focusing on hierarchies and compliance from people. But because of the changing nature of the world, the workforce, work itself, and the choices we have for where and how to work and live, this way of leading is drastically outdated. Stephen M.R. Covey has made it his life’s work to understand trust in leadership and organizations. In his newest and most transformative book, Trust and Inspire, he offers a simple yet bold solution: to shift from this “command and control” model to a leadership style of “trust and inspire.” People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. Trust and Inspire is a new way of leading that starts with the belief that people are creative, collaborative, and full of potential. People with this kind of leader are inspired to become the best version of themselves and to produce their best work. In this “beautifully written page-turner” (Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor), Covey offers the solution to the future of work: where a dispersed workforce will be the norm, necessitating trust and collaboration across time zones, cultures, personalities, generations, and technology. Trust and Inspire calls for a radical shift in the way we lead in the 21st century, and Covey shows us how.

Trust & Inspire

Reclaim your confidence at work so you can hire smarter, read the room and lead difficult moments without second-guessing yourself. What To Do If...? helps you handle real workplace situations with clarity and confidence. 

Written by workplace behavior specialist Anne-Maartje Oud, this field-tested guide distils the 35 questions she's heard most over two decades training managers, HR professionals and teams. Organized into five focused parts on personal development, communication, collaboration, leadership and difficult conversations, it blends research, real examples and simple tools you can use right away. 

Learn how to spot toxic hiring red flags before they damage your culture, decode body language and nonverbal cues, and respond constructively when emotions run high or someone cries at work. Use practical scripts, checklists and decision points to prepare for interviews, lead confident one-to-ones and navigate conflict with calm authority. Build emotional intelligence, set boundaries that stick and create safer, more productive conversations where performance and trust grow. 

Walk away with a repeatable approach for high-stakes situations so you become the steady, trusted person who knows what to do, no matter what happens next. 

Themes include: hiring and interviewing, nonverbal communication; emotions at work, difficult conversations and conflict, everyday communication and collaboration, practical leadership habits.

How to Handle Any Situation at Work and Come Out Winning

What To Do If...?

A SHORT COURSE IN LEADERSHIP BASICS. 7 Lessons in Leadership&nbsp;is a quick course in leading people, giving you everything you need to know in just seven short chapters. From inspiring others and building support, to setting priorities, giving direction and making decisions, you'll explore your inner resources and discover your untapped leadership qualities. * Lesson 1: Self-awareness * Lesson 2: Understanding people * Lesson 3: Communication * Lesson 4: Authority and power * Lesson 5: Making decisions * Lesson 6: Connecting and linking * Lesson 7: Vision and inspiration Explore the main themes and ideas in leadership, get a basic knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, and test your progress with practical and thought-provoking exercises.&nbsp;7 Lessons in&nbsp;Leadership&nbsp;is your fastest route to success. ABOUT THE SERIES 7 Lessons&nbsp;are for people who want to succeed at work. From negotiating and content marketing to finance and social media, the series covers the business topics that matter and that will help you make a difference today. Written in straightforward English, each book features a course of 7 short lessons so that with just a little work, you can quickly master the subject.

Master the Basics of Leading in 7 Steps

7 Lessons in Leadership

Listening Louder

Seven Questions

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