Leadership and Personal Development: A Toolbox for the 21st Century Professional

383 Pages·2011·2.88 MB·English

by  Mike Green, Katja Kruckeberg, Wolfgang Amann

LEADERSHIP &
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
A toolbox for the 21st century professional
Katja Kruckeberg
Wolfgang Amann
Mike Green ~lAP
Leadership and Personal
Development
A Toolbox for the
21st Century Professional
Editors:
Katja Kruckeberg
International Leadership Consultant
Wolfgang Amann
Goethe Business School
and
Mike Green
Henley Business School
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Leadership and Personal
Development
A Toolbox for the
21st Century Professional
edited by
Katja Kruckeberg
International Leadership Consultant
Wolfgang Amann
Goethe Business School
and
Mike Green
Henley Business School
Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Charlotte, North Carolina • www.infoagepub.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Leadership and personal development : a toolbox for the 21st century professional /
editors: Katja Kruckeberg, Wolfgang Amann, and Mike Green.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-61735-553-0 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-61735-554-7 (hardcover) --
ISBN 978-1-61735-555-4 (e-book)
1. Leadership. 2. Success. 3. Maturation (Psychology) I. Kruckeberg, Katja.
II. Amann, Wolfgang. III. Green, Mike, 1959-
BF637.L4L384 2011
658.4’092--dc23 2011028161
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CONTENTS
Foreword ................................................................................................... vii
Introduction to Leadership and Personal Development
Katja Kruckeberg, Wolfgang Amann, and Mike Green ...................................... 1
PART I: EXPLORING YOU IN YOUR WORLD
1. E xploring Your Strengths
Katja Kruckeberg ................................................................................. 15
2. U nderstanding Your Personality
Katja Kruckeberg ................................................................................ 27
3. P ersonal and Organizational Values
Helen Stride ........................................................................................ 55
4. D iscovering Your Emotional Capabilities
Mike Green ......................................................................................... 69
PART II: SELF-LEADERSHIP
5. S elf-leadership: Circles of Life
Katja Kruckeberg ................................................................................. 89
6. S elf-coaching and Learning
Chris Dalton ...................................................................................... 111
7. C reating Your Personal Vision
Mike Green and Katja Kruckeberg ....................................................... 125
PART III: COMMUNICATING MORE CREATIVELY
8. C ommunicating More Effectively
Franklin De Vrede and Katja Kruckeberg ............................................. 145
9. A dvanced Facilitation Skills
Claire Collins .................................................................................... 171
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10. P olish Your Coaching Skills
Patricia Bossons and Denis Sartain ..................................................... 185
PART IV: REFINING YOUR RELATIONSHIP SKILLS
11. H ow to Build a Network That Works
Didier Gonin ..................................................................................... 205
12. B uilding Relationships and Working in Teams Across Cultures
Erich Barthel ..................................................................................... 223
13. R elational Aspects of Coaching and Communication
Claire Collins ................................................................................... 243
PART V: ELEVATING YOUR
LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES
14. S ystemic Leadership
Daniel Pinnow ................................................................................ 259
15. S tepping into Your Leadership Roles
Mike Green ..................................................................................... 273
16. L eading in a Virtual Environment
Inger Buus ...................................................................................... 287
17. L eading More Effectively Through Feedback
Phil Cullen ...................................................................................... 301
PART VI: LEADING YOURSELF AND
OTHERS THROUGH COMPLEXITY
18. C omplexity Skills
Wolfgang Amann, Christoph Nedopil, and Shiban Khan ...................... 317
19. C risis Management Skills
Wolfgang Amann, Shiban Khan, and Christoph Nedopil ...................... 331
20. C reativity Skills for the 21st Century Professional
Mike Green, Katja Kruckeberg, and Wolfgang Amann ......................... 343
21. K ey Lessons on Leadership and Personal Development
Katja Kruckeberg, Wolfgang Amann, and Mike Green ......................... 357
About the Editors and Authors ...............................................................365
FOREWORD
Currently, the business world calls for strong personal leadership. This may
be where leadership is concerned with keeping talents on board and
recruiting new ones at an amazing pace, or where leadership is about dra-
matic turn-around of large organizations that allow them to survive
extremely turbulent conditions.
Whether it is about leaders in the East or in the West, this book addresses
an important area by focusing on the link between leadership and personal
development. It will help executives mobilize people and provide them with
the appropriate skills to meet the fast changing business conditions. Besides
having these skills, successful people need to have a much clearer sense of
purpose, direction and of how they personally fi t into the greater picture.
Professionals seek inspiration on how they should engage with others
and make them thrive amidst chaos. This book offers executives and their
teams highly relevant practical tools and methods that are indeed inspira-
tional. Real life cases and the latest thinking in this prominent fi eld provide
inspiration and applications that can be easily accessed and used on the job.
Specifi cally, this book offers proven and cutting-edge insights into the
leadership domain, such as leading in a virtual environment, systemic lead-
ership, networking skills, and self-leadership. The chapter on complexity
skills provides an excellent introduction to preparing for and dealing with
crises, including the challenging issues of how to stimulate creativity while
maintaining direction.
All in all, this book serves as guide to all those who care about effective lead-
ership in practice, who are guided by a sense of value and a clear vision, and
who thrive on leading themselves and others towards well-balanced goals,
ambitions, and businesses. This books value lies in not only reading and
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reviewing leadership and personal development theories, but applying these
leadership and personal development skills in practice. It is worth the effort.
August 2011
Jørgen Thorsell, CEO Mannaz Ltd.
Hong Kong, China
Inger Buus, Executive Vice President, EMEA
London, Great Britain
INTRODUCTION TO
LEADERSHIP AND PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Katja Kruckeberg, Wolfgang Amann, and Mike Green
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THE BOOK?
This is the fi rst book on leadership and personal development for practis-
ing managers and professionals that fully takes into account that the world
has changed drastically in the past decades, and continues to do so in ways
and at a pace, that few could have anticipated! In some respects, we don’t
know what the future holds for us, either on the macro-level, or on the
micro-economic, political, sociological, and environmental level. However,
by concentrating on ourselves, by knowing exactly who we are and what is
important for us, by creatively envisioning a future based on our greatest
strengths, and by equipping ourselves with key tools and skills, we will cope
up well with this level of uncertainty.
WHAT WILL THIS BOOK DO FOR YOU?
First and foremost, it will provide you with new ways of thinking about and
behaving toward the changes around us. Since the three authors and editors
Leadership and Personal Development: A Toolbox for the
21st Century Professional, pp. 1–11
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