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Perfect Phrases for Leadership Development: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Guiding Employees to Reach the Next Level

Perfect Phrases for Leadership Development: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Guiding Employees to Reach the Next Level

Authors: Meryl Runion and Wendy Mack

Published: December 2010

eISBN: 9780071759571 0071759573 | ISBN: 9780071750943

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 What Is a Dynamic Leader?

Leaders Need to Develop Leaders and Manage Succession

Defining and Integrating Leadership and Management

The Role of the Coach/Mentor in Developing Emerging Leaders

The Four Stages of Emerging Leader Empowerment

Energy and Alignment: Two Dynamic Leadership Essentials

The New Dynamics of Communication

Tips to Customize Communication to Each Emerging Leader

Chapter 2 Perfect Phrases to Set the Stage

Perfect Phrases to Discover the Emerging Leader’s Style, Objectives, and Potential

Perfect Phrases to Develop Measurements of Success as Dynamic Leaders

Perfect Phrases to Communicate What It Means to Be an Emerging Dynamic Leader

Perfect Phrases to Dispel Preconceptions and Address Misperceptions About Dynamic Leadership

Perfect Phrases to Distinguish Between and to Balance Leadership and Management

Perfect Phrases to Share Your Personal Leadership Philosophy

Perfect Phrases to Guide Emerging Leaders to Develop Their Personal Leadership Philosophies

Perfect Phrases to Invite Reverse Mentoring and Mutual Development

Perfect Phrases to Establish Guidelines and Expectations of Your Mentoring and Coaching Relationships

Perfect Phrases to Establish Communication Standards

Perfect Phrases to Affirm Agreements

Chapter 3 Perfect Phases to Navigate the Empowerment Process

Perfect Phrases to Communicate, Stage One: Exploratory

Perfect Phrases to Communicate, Stage Two: Foundational

Perfect Phrases to Communicate, Stage Three: Guided Autonomy

Perfect Phrases to Communicate, Stage Four: Autonomy

Perfect Phrases to Communicate the Emerging Leader’s Stage

Perfect Phrases to Elevate and Adjust the Level of Empowerment

Chapter 4 Perfect Phrases to Ignite Energy and Enthusiasm

Perfect Phrases to Energize Emerging Leaders by Communicating the Benefits of Leadership Development

Perfect Phrases to Guide Developing Leaders to Energize Others Through Communicating Benefits

Perfect Phrases to Create Beginner’s Mind

Perfect Phrases to Get Employees to Let Go of the Past

Perfect Phrases to Build Confidence

Perfect Phrases to Infuse Tasks with Meaning

Chapter 5 Perfect Phrases to Create Alignment

Perfect Phrases to Redirect Efforts Without Stifling Creativity

Perfect Phrases to Keep Mission, Vision, and Values Vital and Relevant

Perfect Phrases to Connect Emerging Leader Ideas to Mission and Values

Perfect Phrases to Create Quick Idea Discernment Filters

Perfect Phrases to Encourage Emerging Leaders to Present Ideas and Express Concerns

Perfect Phrases to Foster Collaborative Thinking

Perfect Phrases to Coordinate Innovation with Existing Obligations

Chapter 6 Perfect Phrases for Developing Visionaries

Perfect Phrases to Get Emerging Leaders to Think Imaginatively

Perfect Phrases to Develop a Clear, Comprehensive Vision

Perfect Phrases to Encourage Emerging Leaders to Think Strategically

Perfect Phrases to Inspire Emerging Leaders to Think Globally

Perfect Phrases to Inspire Emerging Leaders to Embrace Input from Diverse Demographics

Perfect Phrases to Share Your Personal Successes and Lessons

Chapter 7 Perfect Phrases to Develop Leadership Language

Perfect Phrases to Eradicate Victim Language

Perfect Phrases to Get Emerging Leaders to Translate Complaints into Requests

Perfect Phrases to Change Follower Language into Leadership Language

Perfect Phrases to Change Commanding Language into Collaborative Leadership Language

Perfect Phrases to Encourage Showing Rather than Telling

Perfect Phrases to Encourage Inspiring Leader Language

Chapter 8 Perfect Phrases to Handle Challenges

Perfect Phrases to Overcome Reverse Delegation

Perfect Phrases to Learn from Mistakes and Unsuccessful Efforts

Perfect Phrases to Hold Emerging Leaders Accountable

Perfect Phrases to Rein in an Unaligned Emerging Leader

Perfect Phrases to Inspire an Unenergized Emerging Leader

Perfect Phrases to Shift and Expand Limited Mind-Sets

Perfect Phrases to Address Follow-Through Issues

Chapter 9 Perfect Phrases for Developing Change Champions

Perfect Phrases to Inspire Emerging Leaders to Increase Autonomy to Make Change

Perfect Phrases to Encourage Innovation

Perfect Phrases to Encourage Challenging the Status Quo

Perfect Phrases to Motivate Taking Charge

Perfect Phrases to Encourage Emerging Leaders to Move Out of Their Comfort Zones

Perfect Phrases to Help Emerging Leaders Transcend Oppositional Thinking and False Choices

Perfect Phrases to Inspire Confluent Debate

Perfect Phrases to Get Emerging Leaders to Make Their Ideas Practical

Chapter 10 Perfect Phrases to Develop Problem Solvers

Perfect Phrases to Get Emerging Leaders to Take Ownership of Problems

Perfect Phrases to Understand a Problem

Perfect Phrases to Inspire Emerging Leaders to Translate Problems into Possibilities

Perfect Phrases for Problem-Solving Brainstorming

Perfect Phrases to Evaluate Solutions

Perfect Phrases to Develop Resourcefulness

Chapter 11 Perfect Phrases to Develop Decisiveness

Perfect Phrases to Define Decisiveness and Identify Barriers to Decisiveness

Perfect Phrases to Overcome Barriers to Decisiveness

Perfect Phrases to Challenge Indecisiveness When We Observe It

Perfect Phrases to Motivate Emerging Leaders to Be More Decisive

Perfect Phrases to Guide Decisive Action

Chapter 12 Perfect Phrases to Recognize Success

Perfect Phrases to Acknowledge Leadership Initiative

Perfect Phrases to Recognize Effort

Perfect Phrases to Recognize Progress and to Celebrate Milestones

Perfect Phrases to Acknowledge Developing Leaders’ Achieving Autonomy

Chapter 13 Perfect Phrases to Enlist Organizational Support for Leader Development and Succession Planning

Perfect Phrases to Tie Leadership Development into Succession Planning

Perfect Phrases to Encourage Others to Develop New Leaders at All Levels

Perfect Phrases to Generate Support for Dynamic Leader Development by Sharing Your Own Experience with Other Leaders

Perfect Phrases to Get Your Organization Focused on Clearing Barriers to Leader Development

Perfect Phrases to Get Your Organization Focused on Succession Planning and Development

Appendix A: Dynamic Leadership Index

Appendix B: Leader Development Checklist

Appendix C: The Leadership-Management Distinction