Book description
Conversation techniques and tools that can help strong managers
become great leaders
Often the very same skills and traits that enable rising stars to
achieve success "tenacity, aggressiveness, self-confidence"
become liabilities when promoted into a leadership track. While
managers' conversations are generally transactional and centered on
the task at hand, leaders must focus on people, asking great questions
and aligning them with the vision for the future. Leadership mindsets
and skills can be developed, and Leadership Conversations provides
practical guidance for connecting with others in ways that transform
each interaction into an opportunity for organizational and personal growth.
- Identifies four types of conversation every leader must master:
building relationships, making decisions, taking action, and
developing others
- Provides an action plan for boosting your personal leadership
potential, as well for developing leadership skills in others
- Draws on the authors' rich experience coaching and working with
leaders at a wide range of organizations, including NASA, the U.
S. Navy, intelligence agencies, Boeing, Gillette, Bausch &
Lomb, and Georgetown University
Leadership Conversations is required reading for both
high-potential managers looking to make it to the next level and
leaders looking to develop their people.
Alan S. Berson is an executive coach, leadership consultant,
speaker, and professor. He has held leadership, strategic planning,
and marketing roles at Fortune-500 firms including Gillette, Bausch
& Lomb, and Marriott. He is a Learning Director at Wharton
Executive Education and was an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown's
McDonough School of Business. He lives in Potomac, Maryland.
Richard G. Stieglitz is a business consultant and speaker. He
started, built, and sold a company that helped government and industry
executives lead change. Previously, he was a submarine officer in the
US Navy and an executive in the aerospace and computer industries. He
is the author of three books and publishes a monthly leadership
e-letter. He lives in Potomac, Maryland.
For more information, please visit www. myleadershipconversations.
com
