Leadership for Everyone: How to Apply The Seven Essential Skills to Become a Great Motivator, Influencer, and Leader

by Peter J. Dean

Overview

An innovative framework for enhancing leadership skills in any situation

Businesses today have a vital need to create individuals who can positively and progressively fill leadership roles at every level of their organizations. An award-winning leadership practitioner, Peter J. Dean has developed an exclusive method that shows how every interaction and every encounter holds opportunities for leadership. Leadership for Everyone provides the knowledge, tools, and advice to produce "everyday, everywhere" leaders who influence each situation in which they're involved as they reinforce organizational effectiveness and productivity.

Managers and development professionals will learn how to move beyond simple employee supervision to develop self-directed teams that share positive ideas and goals while working beyond the status quo. The seven learnable skills in the L.E.A.D.E.R.S. Method^TM are:

• Listen to Learn
• Empathize their Emotions
• Attend to their Aspirations
• Diagnose the Details
• Engage with Ethics
• Respond with Respectfulness
• Speak with Specificity

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071788977
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	10/06/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	517 KB

About the Author

Peter J. Dean, Ph.D., holds the O. Alfred Granum Chair in Management at The American College, where he is an award-winning associate professor of management and leadership. The author of numerous papers and the recipient of several awards for teaching excellence from Wharton and Penn State, among others, Dean is an active consultant who has worked with such companies as Rockwell International., DuPont, Motorola, Sprint, and Johnson & Johnson.