From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership
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From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership

From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership

by Kevin Eikenberry, Guy Harris

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From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership by Kevin Eikenberry, Guy Harris

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470891551
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 02/15/2011
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 199,553
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company that provides a wide range of services including training delivery and design, facilitation, performance coaching, organizational consulting, and speaking services. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, smaller firms, universities, and government agencies including the American Red Cross, Aramark, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Invesco, John Deere, Nexen, OPTI Canada, Purdue University, Sears Canada, Shell, Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Marine Corp, the U.S. Mint, and Verizon. He also speaks frequently to organizations such as The National Institute of Health (NIH), The American Farm Bureau Federation, ISPI and ASTD. He is author of several books, creator of a suite of training products, publisher of three e-newsletters, former host of an internet radio show, and a frequent blogger. He lives in Indianapolis and has a degree from Purdue University.

Guy Harris is the owner of Principal Driven Consulting and a master trainer and coach with The Kevin Eikenberry Group. Previously, he was a nuclear engineering officer in the US Navy, a manager in the chemical industry, an entrepreneur. He is a Certified Human Behavior Specialist, a Master trainer in the DISC Model of Human Behavior, and a Conflict Resolution Subject Matter Expert. He is co-author of several books, publisher of an e-newsletter, and blogger. He lives in Crawfordsville, IN and has degrees fromNorth Carolina State University and Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

1 A Note from the Authors.

2 A Roadmap for This Book.

3 Now What?

4 How to Get the Most from This Book.

Part I Succeeding in Your Transition to Leadership.

5 Common Concerns About the Transition to Leadership.

6 Improving Your Results by Understanding the CriticalComponents of Your Leadership Role.

7 Confronting Important Changes You Face as a New Leader.

8 Your Unseen Impact as a Leader and Why You Should UnderstandIt.

9 Why You Must Give Up Control to Gain Influence.

10 How to Use the Power of Expectations for Greater Results.

Part II Change.

11 Before We Go Too Far, or the Nature of Change.

12 If Change Is a Choice, How Do We Decide?

13 How to Diagnose Why People Won't Change.

14 Why All Change Isn't Created Equal, but the Principles StillApply.

15 How Do I Communicate Change Most Effectively?

16 But What About Resistance?

Part III Communication.

17 Why You Need a Communication Model.

18 Using the DISC Model of Human Behavior to UnderstandPeople.

19 How You Can Connect and Communicate Better with People.

20 Beyond Behavior: Using the DISC Model to Understand WhatMotivates People.

21 The Nuts and Bolts of Communicating with Each Style.

22 How to Make Your Communication More Powerful, Persuasive, andMemorable.

23 The Other Side of Communication: Becoming a BetterListener.

24Your Kick Start to Winning Presentations.

Part IV Coaching.

25 Coaching The ABCs of Coaching Success.

26 Feedback The Heart of All Coaching.

27 How to Use the Four Types of Feedback.

28 How to Give Feedback.

29 Performance Evaluations in the Real World.

30 How Do We Show Our Support?

31 A Practical Coaching Model to Help You Succeed as aCoach.

Part V Collaboration.

32 How You Can Apply the Seven Keys to Better Meetings.

33 Understanding What Happens When Groups Become Teams.

34 How Teams Develop and How You Can Help Them.

35 How Can I Achieve Greater Team Success?

36 Speaking of Conflict (Because We Know You're Wondering AboutIt).

37 Common Conflict Questions and Their Answers.

38 Using a Process: The Five Ds of Workplace ConflictResolution.

39 The Seven Deadly Sins of Conflict Resolution and How to AvoidThem.

40 Applying Assertive Communication Techniques.

Part VI Commitment to Success.

41 Are Goals Really That Important?

42 Goal Success Starts with You.

43 Beyond SMART: The Keys to Goal Setting.

44 How to Set Goals with Others.

45 What Is the Right Attitude to Support Goal Achievement?

46 Moving From Goal Setting to Goal Getting.

References.

Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.

Additional Resources.

Index.

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StrategicLearner More than 1 year ago
I read a lot and most of what I read has to do with how to develop effective managers and leaders in an organizational context. Eikenberry and Harris both have impressive credentials to be writing in this area and they have produced a well-organized and thorough treatment of the basics of how to be a leader. Those who know this field will find many familar names and concepts, along with some that are maybe not that well-known, all of which are essential for the emerging leader's tool kit. Those who are just becoming familar with leadership will get a "crash course" in some of the most important foundational ideas about how people behave and how to influence them. Short on theoretical discussions, with just enough to help you understand the basic ideas behind concepts, this book concentrates on using the information - I like this a lot. This book is research-based, clearly written, and organized in bite-size "chunks" that facilitate adult learning. When you buy the book, you also get access to a whole "slew" of additional information, making this one very nice value for the price. I mentioned I read a lot of books, but I only recommend a few. This is one of those few and, if I had to choose one title for someone new to leadership or someone who helps others become leaders, I would choose "From Bud to Boss".
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