People Leadership: 30 Proven Strategies to Ensure Your Team's Success

by Gina Folk

Overview

Do you find yourself and your employees less engaged and less productive in the workplace than you would like? According to a Gallup poll, more than 70 percent of the American workforce today is “unengaged”—which means that most of the people in your organization are only showing up to work to go through the motions and collect their paycheck. But there’s something you can do to change that. In People Leadership, Gina Folk covers thirty proven techniques that she learned and utilized during a twenty-five-year career managing people at a Fortune 500 company. Unlike many of the leadership theories you’ll find out there, Folk’s teachings have been implemented and shown to work with real people in real situations. Using Folk’s practices, any individual charged with managing or supervising others at any level can learn to re-engage their employees and improve their company’s productivity—and become the boss they’ve always wanted to be.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631529160
Publisher:	She Writes Press
Publication date:	04/22/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Gina Folk is a dynamic and inspirational leader of people, process, and change. She has more than twenty years of experience helping organizations and individuals to achieve outstanding performance results, and has led global organizations in change efforts that have delivered improvements valued in the tens of millions of dollars. Folk holds an MBA from Belmont University and a BS in psychology and business from Vanderbilt University, and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Visit her website at www.peopleleadership.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

What to Expect from This Book 5

1 Be Authentically Transparent 7

2 Be Adaptable 13

3 Respect and Appreciate Diversity 19

4 Build a Strengths-based Team 25

5 Provide Clarity and Purpose 31

6 Delegate 37

7 Communicate, Communicate, Communicate 43

8 Be Innovative 51

9 Listen 59

10 Collaborate 65

11 Exude Confidence 73

12 Motivate 81

13 Guidance, Not Control 89

14 Manage the Personnel "Stuff" 95

15 Use Power Wisely 103

16 Practice Risk Acceptance 111

17 Give Credit, Accept Blame 119

18 Address Difficult Team Members Immediately 125

19 Measure with Purpose 133

20 Celebrate Successes 143

21 Influence Chicken Little 151

22 Continuously Improve Leadership 157

23 Empower People 163

24 Be Accessible 169

25 Value-check Policies and Processes 177

26 Be the "Reinforcer" 187

27 Master Your Mindset 195

28 Have Fun 203

29 Recharge Your Battery 211

30 Be the Model 219

Leadership Lessons from My 10-year-oid Niece 227

Acknowledgments 229

About the Author 231

Editorial Reviews

People Leadership is a thought-provoking tutorial that encourages its reader to reflect on their own leadership style and lessons learned through prior experiences. The insightful pearls of wisdom shared in Gina Folk's personal stories will guide you on a journey of self-awareness and arm you with useful tools to hone your own leadership skill set.”

—Tracy Foutch, Talent Acquisition Manager

“I recommend People Leadership for anyone in a leadership position. Gina Folk has done a great job of capturing key leadership lessons that could benefit people managers at any level, either as a reminder of how things could be done more effectively, or as a guide for first time managers new to a leadership role.”

—David McCrea, Supply Chain Manager, MicroWatt

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