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The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs
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The five skills, in the author's words, are cross-cutting, collaborating, coaching, culture shaping, and connecting.
Cross-cutting: developing networks that extend to a diversity of people,
Collaborating: fostering psychological safety to increase team performance,
Coaching: having critical conversations that develop others’ potential,
Culture shaping:
Dr. Michelle Buck to help us out. Buck is a clinical professor of leadership at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she served as the school’s first director of leadership initiatives.
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Be a People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships
John C. Maxwell • 4 highlights
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Ireland. She is moved by his conviction that a central piece of the practice of leadership is “helping people to see the contradictions in such a way that they can discover what is in everybody’s best interest”—what Heifetz describes as “recognizing the gap that signals adaptive work.”
Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
As a workshop leader, how you teach is more valuable than what you teach. It’s not about charisma. It’s about being clear, consistent, appreciative, encouraging, caring, and optimistic. Real power comes from warmth, presence, and the ability to self-regulate and respond more naturally to whatever comes up in your group.