From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership
- 4h 21m
- Guy Harris, Kevin Eikenberry
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2011
Practical advice for making the shift to your first leadership position
The number of people who will become first-time supervisors will likely grow in the next 10 years, as Baby Boomers retire. Perhaps the most challenging leadership experience anyone will face isn't one at the top, but their first promotion to leadership. They must deal with the change and uncertainty that comes with a new job, requiring new skills, and they've been promoted from peer to leader. While the book addresses the needs of any manager, supervisor, or leader, it pulls from the best leadership and management thinking, and puts the focus on the difficulties that new leaders experience.
- Includes practical information for new managers who must supervise friends and former peers
- Authors are expert consultants who work with leaders at all levels
- Shows how to adopt the mindset of a leader, including: communicating change, giving feedback, coaching employees, leading productive teams, and achieving goals
This much-needed book can help new leaders get beyond the stress and fear to focus on becoming the most effective leader they can be-starting right now.
About the Authors
Kevin Eikenberry is a two-time best-selling author, speaker, consultant, trainer, coach, leader, learner, husband, and father (not necessarily in that order).
Kevin is the chief potential officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group (KevinEikenberry.com), a learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams, and individuals reach their potential since 1993. Emphasizing the power of learning, Kevin’s specialties include leadership, teams and teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, training trainers, and more.
He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small firms, universities, government agencies, hospitals, and more. His client list includes the American Red Cross, A&W Canada, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, John Deere, Nexen, OPTI Canada, Purdue University, Sears Canada, Shell, Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Mint.
Kevin also is the creator and content developer of The Remarkable Leadership Learning System (remarkable-leadership.com), a continual leadership development process focused on developing the thirteen competencies of remarkable leaders with content virtually delivered to leaders worldwide.
He is the bestselling author of Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time, a leadership primer designed to help you learn and master the thirteen competencies of remarkable leaders; and Vantagepoints on Learning and Life, a collection of his e-mail essays on learning from everyday experiences. He wrote #LEADERSHIPTweet, based on leadership thoughts from his Twitter stream (@KevinEikenberry).
He also is a contributing author in The Handbook of ExperientialLearning, Masters of Sales, 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, and the best-selling Walking with the Wise. Kevin also has been a contributor to thirteen Training and Development Sourcebooks since 1997.
Kevin also produces two e-mail–based publications: UnleashingYour Remarkable Potential, a weekly publication read by more than 16,000 worldwide, to assist organizations and individuals in turning their potential into desired results; and Powerquotes Plus, a weekly publication read by more than 24,000 people worldwide, each one featuring a quote along with personal coaching.
As a speaker, Kevin gives keynotes for organizations and nonprofits on remarkable leadership, lifelong learning, developing human potential, teams and teamwork, creativity, and more. He has presented to the National Institute of Health, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Speaker’s Association (NSA), the International Society for Performance Improvement, the National Association for Experiential Learning, the American Society for Training and Development, the International Society for Performance Improvement, and many more.
Guy Harris draws on more than twenty-five years of combined professional and military experience when he consults, coaches, and trains in the areas of team and interaction dynamics, communication strategies and tactics, and emotional intelligence.
Guy owns Principle Driven Consulting (principledriven.com), a training and development company focused on helping organizations and individuals improve results by reducing conflict and improving communication skills. He is also a master trainer and coach with the Kevin Eikenberry Group.
As a consultant, trainer, and coach, Guy has worked with large and small clients, businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and individuals from Boston to Brisbane and from Ottawa to Orlando.
Typical client concerns prior to working with Guy are forging a team from a group of individuals, moving a team past the conflict stage of team development, developing other leaders, expanding personal influence within the organization, communicating more effectively, and developing buy-in for new programs and processes.With experience and training in technical disciplines and his further training in, and practical application of, human behavior and motivation principles, his unique skills include quickly connecting the technical and task accomplishment necessities of business operations with the human factors that often limit rapid implementation
Guy wrote a business parable titled The Coach: Conversations on Leadership, and he codeveloped a parenting system called The Behavior Bucks System to help parents reduce stress and frustration in their homes. He writes the Recovering Engineer Blog (recoveringengineer.com). He has also contributed to several books, including Sell Naked on the Phone and Presenting with Style.
He has both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering. He was a qualified Engineering Department head in the U.S. Navy. He is a master trainer and coach in the DISC model of human behavior and a workplace conflict resolution expert.
Guy and Kevin codeveloped the content for the Bud to Boss Workshops (BudToBossWorkshop.com), marketed by the Briefings Media Group (BriefingsMediaGroup.com) and held in cities across North America.
In this Book
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From Bud to Boss—Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership
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A Note from the Authors
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A Roadmap for This Book
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Now What?
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How to Get the Most from This Book
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Common Concerns about the Transition to Leadership
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Improving Your Results by Understanding Some Critical Components of Your Leadership Role
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Confronting Important Changes You Face As a New Leader
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Your Unseen Impact as a Leader and Why You Should Understand It
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Why You Must Give Up Control to Gain Influence
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How to Use the Power of Expectations for Greater Results
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Before We Go Too Far, Or the Nature of Change
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If Change Is A Choice, How Do We Decide?
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How to Diagnose Why People Won’t Change
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Why All Change Isn’t Created Equal, but the Principles Still Apply
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How to Communicate Change Most Effectively
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But What about Resistance?
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Why You Need a Communication Model
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Using the Disc Model of Human Behavior to Understand People
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How You Can Connect and Communicate Better With People
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Beyond Behavior—Using the Disc Model to Understand What Motivates People
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The Nuts And Bolts of Communicating With Each Style
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How to Make Your Communication More Powerful, Persuasive, and Memorable
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The Other Side of Communication—Becoming a Better Listener
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Your Kick Start to Winning Presentations
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Coaching—The ABCs of Coaching Success
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Feedback—The Heart Of All Coaching
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How to Use the Four Types of Feedback
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How to Give Feedback
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Performance Evaluations in the Real World
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How Do You Show Your Support?
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A Practical Coaching Model to Help You Succeed As a Coach
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How You Can Apply the Seven Keys to Better Meetings
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Understanding What Happens When Groups Become Teams
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How Teams Develop and How You Can Help Them
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How You Can Achieve Greater Team Success
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Speaking Of Conflict—(Because We Know You’re Wondering About It)
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Common Conflict Questions and Their Answers
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Using A Process—The Five Ds of Workplace Conflict Resolution
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Conflict Resolution and How to Avoid Them
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Applying Assertive Communication Techniques
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Are Goals Really That Important?
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Goal Success Starts With You
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Beyond Smart—The Keys To Goal Setting
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How to Set Goals with Others
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What Is The Right Attitude To Support Goal Achievement?
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Moving From Goal Setting To Goal Getting
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