Becoming a Strategic Leader: Capitalize on the Power of Your Personality by Geor

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This book shows C-suite and senior leaders how to leverage their unique personalities as an essential resource to help guide their organizations. 

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This book shows senior leaders how to leverage their unique personalities as an essential resource to help guide their organizations. Conventional leadership coaching approaches focus primarily on personal change, exploring the qualities that define successful leaders. But to truly play transformative and visionary roles within their organizations, C-suite and other senior leaders must accurately gauge their own strengths and weaknesses, and learn to identify and address the "shadow side" of their personality traits.This book offers a unique model for strategic leadership by encouraging leaders to think carefully about their personal leadership styles. The authors show readers how to use their Big Five personality profiles to identify their unique personality strengths, how to understand the personality styles of others they encounter in professional scenarios, and how to use this knowledge to steer their organizations to greater success.Becoming a Strategic Leader also provides guidelines for coaching staff, managing performance, creating an optimal work culture, and establishing best practices for planning and leadership in the workplace.

Author Biography

George W. Watts, MS, EdD, chairman of Top Line Talent, is a nationally recognized author, behavioral scientist, and senior executive. George delivers acclaimed leadership training programs throughout the world. He coaches CEOs on how to build and lead formidable "C" suite teams. Thousands of people have experienced his approach and commitment to teaching his powerful principles of professional development.Laurie Blazek, BS, MBA, president and CEO of Top Line Talent, is the cocreator of the associated online TLT leadership development program. Laurie has over 25 years of business development, marketing, and leadership experience at large multinational banks including JP Morgan, Citigroup, and Bank of America. She has held senior positions in a wide variety of financial services sectors including asset-backed finance, corporate and investment banking, leveraged finance, private banking, and financial advising.Visit their LinkedIn page at and their website at

Table of Contents

Part I. Your PersonalityIntroduction. The "Aha" MomentChapter 1. Leadership Development FlawsChapter 2. Self-Reflection and AssessmentChapter 3. Personality TraitsChapter 4. Your Top Two TraitsChapter 5. More on the Big FiveChapter 6. Head Versus HeartChapter 7. Career BrandingChapter 8. Beware of the ShadowChapter 9. Accurate Self-KnowledgeChapter 10. The Big Five – RecapPart II. Strategic LeadershipChapter 11. The Strategic Transacting ModelChapter 12. Your PlatformPart III. Building Blocks of Strategic LeadershipChapter 13. Linguistics and Emotional ResonanceChapter 14. Emotional IntelligenceChapter 15. Interdependent ResonanceChapter 16. ListeningChapter 17. Improv and Body Language ExercisesChapter 18. How to Influence BehaviorChapter 19. Presentation PointersChapter 20. Call to Action EmailsPart IV. Strategic CoachingChapter 21. Your Leadership StyleChapter 22. Performance ManagementChapter 23. Creating a Winning CultureChapter 24. Coaching Habits and PracticesChapter 25. Team BuildingConclusionSupportive References

Review

The authors combine deep expertise in psychology and business to provide a practical, easy-to-digest framework for understanding and celebrating your unique personality strengths and applying them to add strategic value to people and organizations. -- Eric Feuerlicht, MBA, Professional Certified Coach, Leadership Development and Coaching Director, AccentureCombining Big 5 personality research with Carl Jung's insights and the organizational transaction cycle, George Watts and Laurie Blazek have crafted a sturdy foundation for leadership growth. While targeted at business leaders, this book will resonate with nonprofit and public sector leaders dealing with diverse personalities daily. It's a budget friendly, accessible alternative to executive coaching, offering a quick path to both personal growth and enhanced people development skills. -- Karen S. Coltrane, MS, President & CEO, Children's Museum of the LowcountryBecoming a Strategic Leader is one of those rare books that is both fascinating and practical. Watts and Blazek brilliantly blend personality theory with real-world strategy, giving leaders the tools they need to understand themselves, supercharge their teams, and win over key stakeholders. A must-read for every aspiring leader! -- James Millar, Founder and Managing Partner, Skybridge Associates; author of Building Bridges: The Case for Executive Peer NetworksBecoming a Strategic Leader is a brilliant intersection of proven science and astute observation. The authors' program has the potential to radically transform leadership training and development. This will be must-have reading for my team. -- Karl C. Johnson Jr., President and Chief Financial Officer, Diversified Chemical Technologies, Inc.Becoming a Strategic Leader provides a clear invitation for leaders to do something powerful with the insights from their personality as it drives value. This book will empower leaders to make the best choices for their lives and careers as they grow as leaders. -- Bradley Brummel, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TXBecoming a Strategic Leader goes beyond offering a leadership model that others should imitate. It also offers insights and tools to help leaders recognize when they are at their best, and leverage those strengths to add strategic value to their teams and organizations. This strengths-based approach is the key to developing authentic leadership skills that last! -- Tamara S. Lyn, PhD, ABPP, Warden (Retired), Federal Bureau of PrisonsThis book is filled with tools, including simple yet thorough self-assessments, an understandable and usable model for strategic leadership, and practical, implementable actions readers can take to be better individuals and leaders. -- Jill B. Smart, MBA, Former Chief Human Resources Officer, Accenture; President Emeritus, National Academy of Human Resources

Details ISBN1433843064 Author Laurie W. Blazek Publisher American Psychological Association Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781433843068 Format Paperback Imprint American Psychological Association Subtitle Capitalize on the Power of Your Personality Place of Publication Washington DC Country of Publication United States Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2024-01-15 DEWEY 158.4 Language English ISBN-10 1433843064 UK Release Date 2024-01-16 Pages 212 Publication Date 2024-01-16 US Release Date 2024-01-16 We've got this

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