Leadership For Dummies, Australian and New Zealand Edition

Improve your leadership skills and bring out the best in the people you lead

People may join organisations, but they stay because of good leaders. Find out how inspiring and bringing out the best in the people you lead helps you fulfil your organisation's visions and key priorities. Leadership ForDummies, Australian and New Zealand Edition, quickly gets you up to speed on the latest leadership theories, providing practical strategies and surefire techniques to ensure you and your followers are working in the same direction.

Discover how to:

• Determine the right leadership style for the situation and your team
• Understand the mindsets you need to lead
• Articulate a vision and create a team purpose
• Communicate like a leader
• Manage expectations and achieve your goals

Introduction 1

Part I: What it Takes to Be a Leader 7

Chapter 1: What Leaders Are and What Leaders Aren’t 9

Chapter 2: Leading — with the Right Style and the Right ‘Hat’ 19

Chapter 3: Building Your Leadership Muscles 37

Part II: Leadership Is Personal 63

Chapter 4: Take the Lead? Me? 65

Chapter 5: Leading in the Right Direction 79

Chapter 6: Getting the Job Done 99

Chapter 7: Communicating as a Leader 119

Chapter 8: Who You Know Matters 143

Part III: The Science and Art of Leadership 155

Chapter 9: Managing Expectations 157

Chapter 10: Bringing Out the Best in Your Followers 177

Chapter 11: Removing Obstacles and Making Decisions 189

Chapter 12: Spreading the Workload 209

Chapter 13: Making Meetings Work 225

Part IV: Building and Leading a Winning Team 243

Chapter 14: Leading in an Age of Never-Ending Change 245

Chapter 15: Building a Team with Muscles 257

Chapter 16: Leading Special Teams 279

Chapter 17: Leading Across Cultures and Across the Globe 303

Part V: When the Going Gets Tough 321

Chapter 18: When Followers Don’t Follow 323

Chapter 19: When Followers Don’t Perform 333

Chapter 20: When You Find Yourself in Deep Water 353

Part VI: The Part of Tens 365

Chapter 21: Ten Characteristics of a True Leader 367

Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Be a Successful Leader 375

Index 381