Read more
Humans communicate with more than just words, but making real connections in today’s virtual workplace is a more difficult endeavor. As a leader in a global workplace, where so many people work remotely, how do you inspire everyone to accomplish your mission? It comes down to putting humanization back in the workplace. That means being your authentic self as a leader and empowering your informal leaders, those individuals whose authority is based on the trust that people place in them, relationships with colleagues, and the good reputation they’ve earned.
In The Leadership Attitude: Inspiring Success through Authenticity and Passion, author Deborah E. McGee, shows how a faith-driven leader has derived success by leading as Christ would lead and truly living the value of “people first.”
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: When God Put Me in Time-Out
Chapter 2: That Was Then—the Pre-PZI Days
Chapter 3: When Faith Found Its Way In
Chapter 4: From Nothing to Something
Chapter 5: The Value of Humanization in Globalization
Chapter 6: Informal Leadership
Chapter 7: A Glimpse into the Process
Chapter 8 The Military Component
Chapter 9: Lead with Your Heart and Help Others
Chapter 10: The Goal—to Emulate "Business Jesus" in the Workplace
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the author
DEBORAH E. MCGEE is a veteran finance and international human resources executive with experience in the consulting, financial, manufacturing, and governmental industries. A recognized authority on achieving organizational effectiveness for multinational corporations through the optimization of human capital assets worldwide, she is currently President of PZI International Consulting, Inc., a full-service International HR provider that she formed after specializing in international tax, payroll, and accounting with Big 4 accounting firms, and then designing and leading International HR functions for expatriates and local nationals in more than sixty countries. Deborah is a CPA, Global Professional in Human Resources®, SHRM Senior Certified Professional, Accredited Leadership Practitioner, and the sole recipient of the National Foreign Trade Council’s Global HR Award for her initiatives of combining international HR with talent management.
Summary
Whether in the office or working from home, the work environment is hectic and chaotic―it’s perhaps even more so now that we're decentralized. Without being face-to-face, without sharing the same space, we’re desensitizing ourselves to the meaning of humanity. That’s even more crucial for organizations operating across global borders, and it takes a real understanding of how informal leadership and influencing actually work.
In The Leadership Attitude: Inspiring Success through Authenticity and Passion, Deborah E. McGee shares her experiences before and after starting her company, PZI, and gives insights into how others can grow their own informal leaders, enhance their influence style, acknowledge their faith in the workplace, and find success.
By building an organization that helps companies better understand informal leadership and influence, and putting the “human” back into their global operations, she has found more success than she ever experienced in the corporate world. And it’s come from slowing down, opening up, understanding how influence can work. By taking a time-out and then letting her faith drive, she has been able to make amazing connections with other people of faith, discovered the power of growing informal leaders, and changed her own influence and leadership style to one that lets others take the lead.
