First-Time Leader - Foundational Tools for Inspiring and Enabling Your New Team

Accompanied by examples and stories from experienced leaders and experts, this excellent resource for first-time leaders shows them how to inspire and enable others to do their absolute best to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose.

List of contents

Acknowledgments xi
 
Part I Getting Started 1
 
Chapter 1 Overview: Congratulations! It's Great to Be a Leader. You've Earned It. And Your New Job Is Going to Be a Wild Ride 3
 
Part I: Getting Started 3
 
Part II: Build Your BRAVE Leadership from the Outside In 5
 
Part III: Leading Small, Medium, and Large Teams 7
 
Chapter 2 Take Charge of Your New Team 11
 
Moving into Your First Leadership Role from Outside 11
 
Tool 2.1: Onboarding Risk Assessment 13
 
Tool 2.2: BRAVE Onboarding 16
 
Getting Promoted to Your First Leadership Role from Within 26
 
Summary: Take Charge of Your New Team 34
 
Chapter 3 The BRAVE Leadership Success Framework: Behaviors, Relationships, Attitude, Values, Environment 35
 
Behaviors: How You Get Things Done through Other People 35
 
Relationships: The Heart of Leadership 36
 
Attitude: Make Crucial Choices around Your Team's Strategy, Posture, and Culture 36
 
Values: Align Yourself and Your Team with the Organization's Mission, Vision, and Values--More or Less 36
 
Environment: Get Clear on Your Mission and Fields of Action 36
 
Building up the BRAVE Leadership Framework from the Outside In 37
 
Part II Build Your BRAVE Leadership from the Outside In 39
 
Chapter 4 Environment: Get Clear on Your Mission and Fields of Action 41
 
Understand Context 42
 
Tool 4.1: 5Cs Situation Analysis Guidelines 44
 
Align around an Interpretation of the Situation Assessment 47
 
Tool 4.2: SWOT 49
 
Tool 4.3: Profi t Pools 50
 
Make Clear Choices around Where to Play and Where Not to Play 50
 
Tool 4.4: Where to Play Choices 56
 
Summary: Where to Play 56
 
Chapter 5 Values: Align Yourself and Your Team with the Organization's Mission, Vision, and Values--More or Less 59
 
The Secret of Happiness 60
 
Link between Happiness and Purpose 61
 
Mission 61
 
Tool 5.1: Mission 62
 
Vision 63
 
Tool 5.2: Vision 64
 
Values 64
 
Tool 5.3: Values 66
 
Coherence 66
 
Summary: What Matters 67
 
Chapter 6 Attitude: Make Crucial Choices around Your Team's Strategy, Posture, and Culture 69
 
Strategy 69
 
Tool 6.1: Strategic Planning 73
 
Tool 6.2: Business Plan Elements 74
 
Posture 75
 
Tool 6.3: Posture Mapping 77
 
Culture 77
 
Tool 6.4: Culture Assessment 81
 
Summary: How to Win 83
 
Chapter 7 Relationships: The Heart of Leadership 85
 
Communication Frameworks 85
 
Tool 7.1: Communication Planning 93
 
Tool 7.2: Writing Guidelines 98
 
Tool 7.3: BRAVE Meeting Management 100
 
Tool 7.4: Press Interview Management 104
 
How to Hire Great People 105
 
Tool 7.5: Recruitment Methods Analysis 111
 
Tool 7.6: Recruiting Brief 112
 
Tool 7.7: Job Requirement Checklist 113
 
Tool 7.8: Candidate Sourcing 116
 
Tool 7.9: Interview Guide 122
 
Tool 7.10: Interview Debrief Form 123
 
Tool 7.11: Reference Inquiry Authorization Form 124
 
Tool 7.12: Reference Inquiry 125
 
Bringing New Hires into the Team 127
 
Tool 7.13: Offer Closing Process 128
 

Tool 7.14: Announcement Cascade 129
 
Tool 7.15: Accommodation Checklist 131
 
Tool 7.16: Assimilation Checklist 132
 
Tool 7.17: Acceleration Checklist 133
 
Managing People Who Are Doing Well--and Not So Well 136
 
Tool 7.18: Career Planning 138
 

Tool 7.19: Development Plan 139
 
Tool 7.20:

About the author

GEORGE BRADT has a unique perspective on transformational leadership based on his experience as an executive, consultant, and writer. After two decades in sales, marketing and general management around the world, now he is a Principal of CEO Connection, Managing Director of the executive onboarding group PrimeGenesis, author of a weekly column on Forbes.com and of five books on onboarding including The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan. George can be reached at [e-mail].
GILLIAN DAVIS has a new generation's view on leadership through her work in marketing, recruiting and coaching. After witnessing and experiencing dissatisfied employees leaving their jobs, not because of the role, but because of poor managers, she is now on a mission to help first-time leaders inspire and enable their teams. Gillian can be reached at @gilliandavis07 or [e-mail]

Summary

First-time leaders get motivational and planning tools from top executive coaching firms The First-Time Leader provides basic frameworks, processes, and tools to help first-time leaders and their teams deliver better results faster.

Product details

• Authors: Gb Bradt, George Bradt, George B Bradt, George B. Bradt, George B. Davis Bradt, Bradt George B., Gillian Davis
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2014
• EAN: 9781118828120
• ISBN: 978-1-118-82812-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management, Business & management, Wirtschaft u. Management, Allg. Wirtschaft u. Management