Your Leadership Edge: Strategies and Tools for When Everyone Leads

by Ed O'Malley, Amanda Cebula

Overview

Leadership isn’t what you think it is.

First, leadership and authority are two different things. That means that anyone can lead, and leadership starts with you and must engage others. Leadership is mobilizing people to make progress on complex challenges. Helping, motivating and inspiring people to change is what leadership is about. Because when everyone leads, we untap the full potential to solve the toughest challenges.

In Your Leadership Edge, Ed O’Malley and Amanda Cebula provide a practical, comprehensive guide designed to help you hone the behaviors, attitudes and mindset necessary to create lasting impact for yourself, your organization and your community. The book describes four competences—Diagnose Situation, Manage Self, Energize Others, and Intervene Skillfully—and dives deeply into each one with a list of skills and tactics that can help you lead anytime, anywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781885167705
Publisher:	Bard Press
Publication date:	01/05/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	196
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Ed O'Malley is the president and CEO of the Kansas Leadership Center. A former state legislator and gubernatorial aide, Ed founded the Kansas Leadership Center in 2007.

Amanda Cebula is an Adjunct Instructor at Kansas State University. She served as the director of project development and business development at the Kansas Leadership Center from 2012-2017.

Table of Contents

Introduction Ed O'Malley 6

Part 1 Diagnose Situation

Distinguish Technical and Adaptive Work 14

Understand the Process Challenges 22

Explore Tough Interpretations 30

Take the Temperature 36

Identify Who Needs to Do the Work 42

Test Multiple Interpretations and Points of View 50

Part 2 Manage Self

Know Your Strengths, Vulnerabilities and Triggers 58

Get Used to Uncertainty and Conflict 66

Choose Among Competing Values 72

Know the Story Others Tell About You 80

Experiment Beyond Your Comfort Zone 86

Take Care of Yourself 94

Part 3 Energize Others

Engage Unusual Voices 104

Start Where They Are 110

Work Across Factions 116

Create a Trustworthy Process 124

Speak to Loss 132

Inspire a Collective Purpose 140

Part 4 Intervene Skillfully

Make Conscious Choices 148

Raise the Heat 156

Speak from the Heart 162

Give the Work Back 168

Act Experimentally 176

Hold to Purpose 182

Onward 188

What's Next 192

Acknowledgements 194

About the Authors 195