Description
An insightful and inspirational team leadership guide packed with hands-on tools, resources, and visual aids you can use immediately
In The Voice-Driven Leader - How to Hear, Value, and Maximize Every Voice on Your Team, bestselling author, international speaker, and leadership consultant, Jeremie Kubicek, and Steve Cockram deliver a transformative guide to help you cultivate leadership at every level of your organization. It's a tactical, hands-on roadmap to turning teams into high-performing powerhouses, one team member at a time.
Kubicek and Cockram draw on decades of in-depth experience working with some of the world's most accomplished executives, leaders, and teams as they present their incisive 5 Voices framework. In The Voice-Driven Leader, you'll learn to understand your own strengths, adapt to your team's unique needs, and guide your people through a clear, four-stage development journey.
You'll find:
- Practical, step-by-step strategies you can apply immediately to increase your team's productivity and cohesion
- Intuitive walkthroughs of common, difficult leadership development problems—and solutions to frequently made leadership mistakes—that reliably solve challenges and overcome obstacles
- Actionable resources, including real-world examples and visual tools, that complement the book's voice-based approach
Perfect for managers, executives, HR leaders, and other business leaders, The Voice-Driven Leader is an invaluable and insightful framework for entrepreneurs, founders, team leaders, supervisors, and anyone else with an interest in helping the people they lead realize their potentials.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Missing Playbook for Developing People ix
Part I The Development Crisis 1
Chapter 1 Why People Development Typically Fails: And What Happens When It Works 3
Chapter 2 How Effective Are You in Developing Others?: Assessing Your Strengths 13
Chapter 3 Voice- Driven Leadership: Learning the Leadership Languages 19
Chapter 4 Committing to Lead: Choosing to Make Development a Lifestyle 37
Chapter 5 Understanding the Development Square: Mastering the Art of Leadership Development 55
Part II The Development Journey 53
Chapter 6 The Foundation Stage: “I Do, You Watch” 77
Chapter 7 The Immersion Stage: “I Do, You Help” 93
Chapter 8 Avoiding the Pit of Despair: Helping Your People Win 107
Chapter 9 The Empowerment Stage: “You Do, I Help” 149
Chapter 10 The Multiplication Stage: “You Do, I Watch” 175
Part III Building a Development System 191
Chapter 11 How to Build a People Performance System 193
Conclusion: Are You Becoming a Voice- Driven Leader? 205
Acknowledgments 209
About the Authors 211
Index 213
