Building Your Leadership Toolbox

Do you find yourself in a newly appointed leadership role? Are you looking to expand your leadership skills? Leading from the Back is an easy read for those seeking new and effective methods of leadership. Drawing on personal experiences and training, the author provides various tips, graphs, and anecdotes to offer the reader an engaging and informational guide to leadership. You can never have too many tools when building your leadership toolbox!

We’re all searching for ways to live life to its fullest, be the best in our careers, and lead effectively. But what are the concrete steps to get you there? Business professional, Coach John Wandolowski had the same question. In his first supervisory position, Wandolowski became a student of Dr. Michael Durst’s revolutionary Management by Responsibility concept. Through years of studying and putting these concepts into practice, Wandolowski, a successful business leader and teacher in his own right, has devised a strategy for achieving more. Using the premise that “we are responsible for everything in our experience, whether we like it or not,” Wandolowski teaches empowering methods that will inspire others and give new and experienced leaders the confidence to level up their careers. Understanding that work and business are based upon human interaction, Building Your Leadership Toolbox introduces strategies that you can begin applying right now to supercharge your business. Every good craftsperson has a toolbox at the ready for whatever challenges their next project offers. At work, what is in your toolbox? From honing self-awareness to confronting and improving your limitations as a leader, learn to optimize the employee and customer interactions you have daily while removing obstacles and reducing limiting situations. Now is the time to invest in yourself, to give yourself the insights that other successful leaders rely on. Equip yourself with the essentials by following Wandolowski’s concise guidance to get more from your team, achieve loyalty, and become more motivated and in control of your business.

Imagine a business environment where front-line employees are highly engaged and take pride in the success of the company, current leaders have time to mentor their own replacements, and process improvements are implemented quickly before gaps affect the bottom line. The Leadership Toolbox offers readers a proven systematic process for helping employees and business leaders quickly increase leadership skills, while implementing solutions that impact their revenue and bottom line. Vetted by thousands of employees, these fun and engaging practical strategies have consistently resulted in quantifiable outcomes for organizations, and in much shorter periods of time than anyone thought possible. Vicki Brackett designed these tools for easy implementation within virtually any organization-from small start-ups to Fortune 100 multinational companies, encouraging authentic inclusion that drives dramatic results. With engaging narratives and real-life case studies, The Leadership Toolbox illustrates how these small building blocks can be used separately or together to cause a chain reaction of success within any organization. "Turned a site from complete failure into a success delivering some star metrics." - Kevin B., VP Global Accounts "Gave us the direction we needed to be successful and a competitive advantage in the marketplace." - Jackie M., Director, National Company "Helped us adapt our processes, increasing contact rates and ultimately sales revenue." - Laurie L, VP of National company

The powerful sequel to 7 Ways to Lead, Andre Young’s The Leader’s Toolbox equips business professionals with the tools they need to evolve their leadership style and the skills of those they lead!

If you are asking what the connection is between "toolboxes" and "leadership," you are not alone! However, this relationship could be the most powerful element in today's ever-changing business world.The Leadership Toolboxes sets the tone for those critical skills needed to lead an organization through any business environment. These skills have withstood the test of time and are the foundation for anyone seeking to learn new concepts or sharpen their already proven leadership abilities. Yes, times have changed! Business has changed! However-expectations on effective leadership remain steadfast!In this book, Jeff Belsky concentrates on the practical application of select leadership skills-or "tools." He does this through using engaging, personal, and professional anecdotes to take the reader through all phases of their own leadership journey. Readers will immediately gain a better understanding of those leadership skills that result in increased effectiveness in the workplace.Whether you are a new or an experienced leader, The Leadership Toolboxes provides a workable and impactful road map toward personal and professional results.What is in your leadership toolbox?

Building a professional learning community (PLC) is not a journey taken alone. That's where the guiding coalition comes in. With clear, practical guidance, this resource examines every aspect of how to create, develop, and sustain this essential leadership team. Each chapter includes next steps, FAQs, and reflections carefully designed to help you overcome common roadblocks as you move from current practice to best practice. Define a guiding coalition and understand its importance. Learn basic PLC concepts and principles to inform guiding coalition processes. Understand the three basic school structures to ensure a proper PLC foundation. Form and maintain strong relationships that strengthen leadership. Implement levers to improve school culture and create effective, efficient leadership. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Creating a Powerful Guiding Coalition Chapter 2: Leading the PLC Basics Chapter 3: Building a Solid PLC Foundation Chapter 4: Building Powerful Relationships Chapter 5: Promoting Collaborative Leadership Chapter 6: Leveraging Your Leadership Epilogue References and Resources

2024 Prose Award Winner for Nursing and Allied Health Services Category! "This book is a comprehensive, well-researched, and well-presented guide for nascent and existing leaders of public health care who navigate the complex, fragmented, often underfunded, and rapidly changing system. It is a most valuable resource." ---Doody's Review Service, 5 stars Leadership in Practice prepares leaders for the unpredictability, complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty they will face while leading public health and healthcare organizations and teams. It equips leaders with practical, sustainable, and universal skills, abilities, and intangibles needed to thrive in a constantly-evolving environment. Building on a solid theoretical foundation, Leadership in Practice addresses the challenges leaders face in many contexts by exploring the skills and behaviors necessary for the effective practice of leadership. Integrating the most relevant leadership theories, their history, evidence, and application in public health and healthcare, chapters focus on the essential competencies that leaders in public health and healthcare must master, including effective dialogue, ethical leadership and moral courage, systems thinking, strategic thinking and analysis, and emotional intelligence. The textbook discusses the many challenges leaders face, including change leadership, developing an equity mindset, effective leadership during organizational crises, and meaningful engagement with the communities served. Case studies relevant to public health and healthcare examine topics such as leadership during COVID-19, Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, community engagement and team building, hiring diverse personnel, preventing burnout, and more to provide lessons learned from real-world examples. Leadership in Practice brings together a diverse array of leaders and a wide range of voices to impart wisdom and share unique perspectives and experiences from public health and healthcare settings. This authoritative resource is essential for anyone training in public health, healthcare management, and related health professions, and illustrates why it is critical to learn from leaders who possess different worldviews, experiences, and training backgrounds. Leadership in Practice provides you with expert insight on building the right leadership framework and developing a meaningful leadership style for your own leadership practice. Key Features: Describes the core principles, skills, traits, and behaviors for effective leadership in practice Includes engaging case studies demonstrating leadership intangibles, applications, and real-world context in public health and healthcare settings Builds self-awareness through self-assessments and reflection exercises Provides wisdom and insight from notable and diverse leaders in the field Leads students and professionals to the development of their own framework upon which to build and continuously evolve their leadership practice

Practical, Proven Tools for Leading and Empowering High-Performing Agile Teams A leader is like a farmer, who doesn’t grow crops by pulling them but instead creates the perfect environment for the crops to grow and thrive. If you lead in organizations that have adopted agile methods, you know it’s crucial to create the right environment for your agile teams. Traditional tools such as Gantt charts, detailed plans, and internal KPIs aren’t adequate for complex and fast-changing markets, but merely trusting employees and teams to self-manage is insufficient as well. In Agile Leadership Toolkit, longtime agile leader Peter Koning provides a practical and invaluable steering wheel for agile leaders and their teams. Drawing on his extensive experience helping leaders drive more value from agile, Koning offers a comprehensive toolkit for continuously improving your environment, including structures, metrics, meeting techniques, and governance for creating thriving teams that build disruptive products and services. Koning thoughtfully explains how to lead agile teams at large scale and how team members fit into both the team and the wider organization. Architect environments that help teams learn, grow, and flourish for the long term Get timely feedback everyone can use to improve Co-create goals focused on the customer, not the internal organization Help teams brainstorm and visualize the value of their work to the customer Facilitate team ownership and accelerate team learning Support culture change, and design healthier team habits Make bigger changes faster This actionable guide is for leaders at all levels—whether you’re supervising your first agile team, responsible for multiple teams, or lead the entire company. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.