Pride Leadership

As a member of the LGBTQ+ Community, did you know that you naturally have some amazing leadership skills inside you, based upon your experience, that you may not be capitalizing on? Now, it's not to say that our straight brothers and sisters don't have the potential to be rock star leaders, but--through many of our shared experiences being LGBTQ+ folks--we've had the opportunity to truly develop such skills as leveraging empathy, shaping our culture, being courageous, and being authentic. These skills are some of the most sought-after leadership competencies in the workplace today ... and they're already inside you, dear LGBTQ+ professional! Based upon over twenty-five years' experience in the leadership development, change management, and diversity and inclusion consulting space, Dr. Steve Yacovelli identifies the six leadership traits--being authentic, leading with courage, having empathy, effective communication, building relationships, and influencing organizational culture--that can greatly increase any LGBTQ+ Leader's effectiveness, and ways in which you as an LGBTQ+ Leader can increase your own leadership potential through cultivating these six leadership competencies. Whether you're a seasoned senior executive or a just-starting-out shiny new leader, Pride Leadership is your stop to hone your natural LGBTQ+ leadership awesomeness, gather a few kernels of wisdom to immediately apply in your workplace, and amp up your leadership-self to be just that much better-er. In short: you'll be a more effective, impactful, and inclusive leader after reading this book. Oh, and you'll have a good time learning along the way, too!

As a member of the LGBTQ+ Community, did you know that you naturally have some amazing leadership skills inside you, based upon your experience, that you may not be capitalizing on? Now, it's not to say that our straight brothers and sisters don't have the potential to be rock star leaders, but--through many of our shared experiences being LGBTQ+ folks--we've had the opportunity to truly develop such skills as leveraging empathy, shaping our culture, being courageous, and being authentic. These skills are some of the most sought-after leadership competencies in the workplace today ... and they're already inside you, dear LGBTQ+ professional! Based upon over twenty-five years' experience in the leadership development, change management, and diversity and inclusion consulting space, Dr. Steve Yacovelli identifies the six leadership traits--being authentic, leading with courage, having empathy, effective communication, building relationships, and influencing organizational culture--that can greatly increase any LGBTQ+ Leader's effectiveness, and ways in which you as an LGBTQ+ Leader can increase your own leadership potential through cultivating these six leadership competencies. Whether you're a seasoned senior executive or a just-starting-out shiny new leader, Pride Leadership is your stop to hone your natural LGBTQ+ leadership awesomeness, gather a few kernels of wisdom to immediately apply in your workplace, and amp up your leadership-self to be just that much better-er. In short: you'll be a more effective, impactful, and inclusive leader after reading this book. Oh, and you'll have a good time learning along the way, too!

King is a small cub from the East Savanna lion tribe. Spending his days playing with his brothers and friends, King enjoys himself. Until King begins to experience constant bullying from Abioye, another lion cub and son of their tribe’s Pride Leader. While living under the Sudan sun, King questions what is the true importance of life. He realizes how life is different for everyone and how it can change someone. Is death easy to let go, or does grief never leave? Can friends become family, and can tradition hold them back? Through the years of a cub to adulthood, King learns these different prospects of life while trying to accomplish his own dream. His dream of becoming the Pride Leader.

As a member of the LGBTQ+ Community, did you know that you naturally have some amazing leadership skills inside you, based upon your experience, that you may not be capitalizing on? Now, it's not to say that our straight brothers and sisters don't have the potential to be rock star leaders, but--through many of our shared experiences being LGBTQ+ folks--we've had the opportunity to truly develop such skills as leveraging empathy, shaping our culture, being courageous, and being authentic. These skills are some of the most sought-after leadership competencies in the workplace today ... and they're already inside you, dear LGBTQ+ professional! Based upon over twenty-five years' experience in the leadership development, change management, and diversity and inclusion consulting space, Dr. Steve Yacovelli identifies the six leadership traits--being authentic, leading with courage, having empathy, effective communication, building relationships, and influencing organizational culture--that can greatly increase any LGBTQ+ Leader's effectiveness, and ways in which you as an LGBTQ+ Leader can increase your own leadership potential through cultivating these six leadership competencies. Whether you're a seasoned senior executive or a just-starting-out shiny new leader, Pride Leadership is your stop to hone your natural LGBTQ+ leadership awesomeness, gather a few kernels of wisdom to immediately apply in your workplace, and amp up your leadership-self to be just that much better-er. In short: you'll be a more effective, impactful, and inclusive leader after reading this book. Oh, and you'll have a good time learning along the way, too!

This book serves as a guide for the seasoned veteran, the new firefighter and everyone in between, bringing them together for what it all takes to have that love for the job. Each chapter addresses the next step in the leadership chain that is necessary for a fire service professional to succeed. The chapters are as follows: Our Mission; The Firefighter; The Company Officer; The Chief; Our Two Families; Sweating the Small Stuff; Changing Shirts-The Promotion; What September 11th Did For Us-The Good and the Bad; Ceremonies; Marketing Your Fire Department; Making It All Happen-Embracing Success; Have You Forgotten.

The book that turns our understanding of motivation on its head . . . and shows why most companies get it wrong. There are few people with more experience and accumulated wisdom about the inner workings of business and how people can work together more effectively than Jon Katzenbach. His groundbreaking research has resulted in several important books, including The Wisdom of Teams and Real Change Leaders. Over the past several years he has turned his attention to one of the perennial questions of leaders everywhere: How do I motivate my employees? Most everyone frets about how to devise schemes that will keep the troops revved up. Conventional wisdom—or at least the practice at most companies—often centers on money as the primary motivating force. Many also rely on intimidation, which like money generally has a short-term impact. But what Katzenbach has found in his research at many organizations is that both of these practices do little to build the long-term sustainability of an organization. For that you need a powerful force that has been—until this point—understood by few managers and implemented by fewer still: pride. From the front lines to the executive suite, most people are motivated by feelings of accomplishment, approval, and camaraderie. It’s why the best employees strive well beyond performance levels that will yield them higher pay and why most true professionals relentlessly avoid retirement. Why does Southwest Airlines consistently turn in the highest levels of performance and profitability of any company in the airline business? What can the U.S. Marines teach us about individual commitment that can be used in the for-profit world? How is General Motors overcoming its history of labor-management enmity through the efforts of “pride-builders” from both the union and the management side? By drawing on what he has learned from these and many other organizations, Jon Katzenbach provides a practical program for understanding the role of pride: • Money is not the motivator most people think it is: Katzenbach shows why pay-for-performance programs by themselves result in employees who focus on self-serving behavior and skin-deep organizational commitment. • Money tends to be a short-term motivational device and works best during times of growth, but pride works in bad times as well as good. • Cultivating pride is an investment that yields high returns on workforce performance over time and is not nearly as costly as relying solely on monetary compensation and the turnover risks that accompany a “show me the money” culture. Katzenbach shares unique insights and specifics about how the best mid-level pride-builders take advantage of the world’s greatest motivational force even in environments as challenging as General Motors and Aetna. He shows how managers at every level are missing a powerful lever if they are not instilling pride as a primary force for building their organization. Also available as an eBook.

When Brady was given a free pass to sow his wild oats, as long as he's back with the pride before fall, he never dreamed he'd meet his mate...or that his mate would be a man. As the pride's alpha heir, Brady knows the weight of responsibility. He's expected to settle down, find a mate and have an heir of his own. But first he's given the opportunity to travel and visit other prides, an unspoken opportunity to get his attraction to men out of his system before he comes home and does his duty. Mason has his hands full fostering Jonah, an abandoned teen soon to have his first shift. He doesn't have time to babysit a visiting alpha heir, but duty calls. As the second son of the alpha, he knows his place, and when he's given a task, he does it. Brady and Mason realize almost instantly that they are mates...and both also know that it can never come to pass. With the expectations they need to fulfill, this short time together will be the only chance they have to taste what could be. But they are tied together by more than just instinct—old crimes and hidden connections come to light and they are forced to make hard choices between duty and love.