Lead with Grace: Leaning into the Soft Skills of Leadership

by Jessica Cabeen

Overview

Why do even great leadership books leave out the soft skills?

Probably because soft skills are not flashy. But soft skills are critical to graceful leadership, and you will find the stories and strategies to hone them, inside this book.

National Distinguished Principal and leadership advisor Jessica Cabeen understands the soft skills better than most. In Lead with Grace, book 2 in the Lead Forward Series, Jessica shows you how to seamlessly integrate authenticity, empathy, integrity, and the power of vulnerability into your daily work, turning you into someone who truly leads with grace and empowers students, staff, and everyone around you to excel.

Using frameworks and strategies, these soft skills can help you nurture relationships, enhance communication, manage boundaries, and provide the grace you need to effectively lean into your work, at school, home, or the office.

Leaning into the soft skills of leadership will help you:

• Find ways to confront negative workplace behaviors.
• Leverage opportunities that help people interact in healthier ways.
• Create a workplace culture that supports risk-taking, while amplifying individual voices.
• Enhance social media interactions to empower all stakeholders.
• Implement habits that make grace an intentional practice in your personal and work life.

Great leaders, teachers, parents, and are typically good at the hard skills: organization, guidelines, and management. Very few, though, are great at the soft skills. And even fewer really understand how to lead with grace. Now, you can be a great and graceful leader, who understands and leads with soft skills.

Grab Lead with Grace today, and integrate authenticity, vulnerability, empathy, and integrity into your work immediately. Under your graceful leadership, staff, students, and co-workers will perform like never before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948212168
Publisher:	Times 10 Publications
Publication date:	08/19/2019
Series:	Lead Forward , #2
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Editor’s Foreword 11

Introduction 15

Homing In and Owning the Soft Skills of Leadership

Chapter 1: Authentic Grace 21

Be Unapologetic in Your Leadership Style

Chapter 2: Vulnerable Grace 45

Give It Your Best, Even When You Are at Your Worst

Chapter 3: Grace with Empathy 69

Lead Without Judgment and with Understanding

Chapter 4: Grace with Integrity 89

Be Who You Are No Matter Who Is Watching

Chapter 5: Communication Graces 111

Watch What You Say and How You Say It

Chapter 6: Grace in Relationships 133

Interact with Manners, Mindfulness, and Meaning

Chapter 7: Social Graces 153

Interact and Act Online

Chapter 8: Grace with Yourself 173

Pause in the Pace of All This Grace

Conclusion 189

Instead of Moving On, Move Forward