John Baldoni

Imagína lo que podrías lograr si tuvieras tu propio entrenador personal en liderazgo.Antes de poder ser líder de otros, necesitas aprender a ser tu propio líder. A pesar de esto, aquellos que tienen por tarea desempeñar papeles de liderazgo deben descubrir a qué responde su personal y su compañía mientras siguen adelante en su desempeño. Este libro proporciona a los lectores la pericia necesaria para inspirarlos y dirigirlos en su carrera profesional.Este libro, organizado en tres secciones para mejor referencia, Tú mismo, Tus colegas y Tu organización, facilita a los lectores sugerencias tácticas en cuanto a:InspirarManifestar personalidadDesarrollar seguridadComunicarse con autoridadAnalizar al pensarFavorecer las innovacionesConectarse con los demásResolver los conflictosPoner entusiasmo en su forma de ser líderesEntrenar para el desarrolloReconocer los logrosInfundir un propósito común a toda la compañíaEnfrentar a las adversidadesAmpliado con las investigaciones más actuales sobre el papel de los líderes y las expectativas que tienen sus seguidores acerca de ellos, esta guía breve, poderosa y portátil contiene sugerencias para la acción y autoevaluaciones llenas de energía, además de secciones llamadas específicas destinadas a mover a los lectores a alcanzar alturas cada vez mayores en la calidad de su liderazgo.

Grace Notes: Leading in an Upside-Down World addresses the fear, isolation, resilience and endurance that faced leaders in an unprecedented time. The arc of the book, marked with ups and downs, begins in a place of darkness but ends in a place of light and hope.

 

Grace Notes reveals how leaders can become more resilient and more capable of leading themselves and their teams. The author’s photography provides an added dimension that augments the tone and provides visual punctuation. This book will provide readers with insights into how to live more purposefully and with greater grace

Internationally recognized speaker, executive coach, writer, and leader John Baldoni believes it’s up to those at the top to bring meaning to employees’ day-to-day work. In this encouraging guide, he’ll show you what it takes to build a company of committed employees from your current workforce–using nothing more than a toolkit of powerful leadership skills. Featuring illuminating stories, interviews, and profiles of leaders from a variety of fields, Lead with Purpose can help all leaders take their organizations to the next level. You’ll learn how to: instill your team with a sense of ownership; spotlight your organization’s mission; encourage resourcefulness and flexibility; harness creativity and the desire to succeed; transform a shared vision into real results; and develop the next generation of leaders.At successful organizations, people know what they do and why they do it. With these practical tips and applicable techniques, you’ll not only improve your leadership skills–you’ll bring a sense of purpose to your workplace that produces incredible outcomes.

The Leader’s Pocket Guide provides readers with on-the-job expertise to inspire and direct them on their professional journeys. Organized into three sections–self, colleagues, and organization–this useful guide spurs leaders to be ever growing in their careers, and includes lessons on major leadership concepts like why integrity should be your employees’ most highly valued trait, how to lead in a way that empowers others to manage, and why you should identify, commit to, and live by six words. With 101 indispensable tips and tools to explore, you’ll learn how to deliver inspiration, demonstrate character, develop confidence, communicate with authority, think critically, foster innovation, connect with others, resolve conflicts, add buzz to your leadership brand, coach for development, recognize achievement, instill company-wide purpose, and overcome adversity. Augmented by up-to-date research on the role of leaders and the expectations followers have for them, this pithy, powerful, and portable guide contains energizing action tips, clever formulas, self-assessments, and thoughtful places for deeper reflection to spur you toward becoming a top leader in your industry.

The Leader’s Pocket Guide provides readers with on-the-job expertise to inspire and direct them on their professional journeys. Organized into three sections–self, colleagues, and organization–this useful guide spurs leaders to be ever growing in their careers, and includes lessons on major leadership concepts like why integrity should be your employees’ most highly valued trait, how to lead in a way that empowers others to manage, and why you should identify, commit to, and live by six words. With 101 indispensable tips and tools to explore, you’ll learn how to deliver inspiration, demonstrate character, develop confidence, communicate with authority, think critically, foster innovation, connect with others, resolve conflicts, add buzz to your leadership brand, coach for development, recognize achievement, instill company-wide purpose, and overcome adversity. Augmented by up-to-date research on the role of leaders and the expectations followers have for them, this pithy, powerful, and portable guide contains energizing action tips, clever formulas, self-assessments, and thoughtful places for deeper reflection to spur you toward becoming a top leader in your industry.

Leaders today need to be mindful of their circumstances as well as mindful of their own strengths and shortcomings. They need to have the disposition to succeed as well as the inner resourcefulness to persevere. Leaders must be willing to do things differently but also draw on tried and true traits, such as courage and gumption.

Moxie is a concept that the modern leader is wise to adopt—one part courage, one part can-do spirit, and one part recognition. In Moxie: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership, author John Baldoni uses concrete, tried-and-true steps to bring out the inner leader in everyone. For management and employees alike, Moxie provides a roadmap to inspire innovation and effective leadership. Whether you’re already at the helm of your organization or still looking for a way up the ladder, Moxie is the leadership tool you can’t do without. Built on the MOXIE framework, leaders learn how Motivation, Opportunity, an “X” factor, Innovation, and Engagement work together for success.

John Baldoni’s new book on the power of GRACE is a must read for all of us and particularly for anyone seeking to serve in a leadership role. In a world where good manners and courtesy sometimes seem to have gone out of style, this book is a practical guide for bettering relationships in all types of human connections.

John Baldoni’s new book on the power of GRACE is a must read for all of us and particularly for anyone seeking to serve in a leadership role. In a world where good manners and courtesy sometimes seem to have gone out of style, this book is a practical guide for bettering relationships in all types of human connections. In a spiritual sense grace is unearned and as such, it is yours to use for the betterment of self and others. Grace as a gift is a catalyst for positive change to enable the greater good.

Baldoni’s GRACE mixes stories of everyday heroes with interviews of notable thought leaders. The results give practical insights into generosity, respect, and compassion coupled with the energy and actions it takes to deliver on these virtues. Creating an acronym, Baldoni helps us distinguish the attributes of grace in Generosity, Respect, Action, Compassion and Energy.

We can apply these universal truths in ordinary as well as extraordinary situations.  The many examples of grace in everyday life allow us to witness human dignity and humility and remind us what wonders we can accomplish when working together. This is an inspiring collection of personal stories that combines wisdom with positive outcomes.

Your idea may be groundbreaking. The potential profits might be exhilarating. The time to act may be right now. But if you’re not able to craft and deliver a clear message that doesn’t lead the audience to gain your perspective as well, that can be the difference between your pitch being transformational and becoming forgettable. Whether in a meeting or a presentation, a watercooler conversation or a formal speech, a leader’s most important job is to clearly and effectively communicate. The Leader’s Guide to Speaking with Presence is a concise tool kit containing more than 100 practical tips for creating and communicating meaningful messages with presence and authority. Readers will discover how to:• Present their ideas clearly and provide context • Radiate confidence and put the audience at ease • Refine their delivery • Use stories to inform, involve, and inspire • Leverage the energy of any room • Convey optimism tempered with reality to gain buy-in • Turn PowerPoint presentations into performances • And moreWhen a leader learns to own the room with an authentic and persuasive speech, the audience will become putty in his or her hands. This handy little guide helps leaders achieve the kind of genuine presence that evolves into lasting trust and quantifiable influence.

Do your people know the difference between being a “boss” and being a “leader”? They better! Fact is: Your bottom line is ON the line! It’s no secret that leadership (or the lack of it) is the most critical factor affecting your current and future business success. Yet far too many key people are expected to assume leadership roles without being given the guidance and support necessary to do the job … and they’re struggling. They need help. They need tools. More than anything else, THEY NEED A MAP to show them the way. And here it is!

180 Ways To Walk The Leadership Talk is a quick-reference handbook packed with ideas, techniques, and strategies to help current and future leaders shape an environment that attracts and retains the people you need and produces the results you want.

It’s a true leader who makes his or her vision a reality–achieving great results that bring the highest levels of success.

 

In How Great Leaders Get Great Results, top leadership and management consultant John Baldoni explains how anyone from a first-time manager to a CEO can become a great leader by creating a strong, results-driven organization. He blends key management principles with leadership stories to demonstrate how you can bring your people together, gain their trust, increase their enthusiasm, and motivate them to adopt your company’s goals as their own.

 

Baldoni profiles several renowned, results-oriented business leaders, revealing the proven execution strategies they use to consistently get their people to perform to their fullest. He identifies seven key steps–Vision, Alignment, Execution, Risk, Discipline, Courage, and Results–that top leaders such as Anne Mulcahy, John McCain, Steve Jobs, Meg Whitman, and Steven Spielberg take to get the results they want. Their stories are paired with a concrete plan of action that helps you cultivate a results-driven culture–no matter your type of business. Baldoni shows you how to:

 

• • Communicate with your people in ways that make things happen

 

• • Enlist support for your ideas and overcome resistance

 

• • Instill a sense of accountability in all teams and departments

 

• • Encourage risk-taking and push innovation

 

• • Achieve desirable, sustainable results–and deal with unintended, unwelcome results

 

• • Teach your own results-driven story

 

Whether your goals are increased sales, improved customer service, enhanced quality, faster productivity, or any other criteria for your people, products, or services, How Great Leaders Get Great Results gives you the tools to become a true visionary, create more “heroes” in your workplace, and drive your business to the top.

Acclaimed leader John Baldoni teaches ambitious managers how to get their ideas heard–and acted upon. In Lead Your Boss, he provides readers with both a powerful new approach and timeless methods for influencing their bosses and their peers and earning rapport with senior leadership teams. You’ll how to leverage positive traits–like initiative, resilience, empathy, and courage–to manage up, and will explore proven strategies for: developing spheres of influence, handling tough issues, asserting yourself diplomatically, putting the team first, persuading up, establishing trust, using organizational politics to everyone’s advantage, and inspiring others throughout your organization. Every manager on the move wants to have influence at the top. Featuring instructive stories based on real-life experiences from leaders at all levels, this secret weapon for middle managers reveals effective, tactical advice for becoming a key player in any organization even before you reach the C-Suite.

To be effective, the people in charge must give their team a reason to follow them and work together. Lead by Example reveals the simple things that you can do every day to give your team a reason to believe in and follow your guidance. It would seem easy, but as leadership guru John Baldoni explains, establishing this level of trust in your abilities as a leader takes a lifetime of trying to put it into practice. In his award-winning book, readers will learn how to do this by: listening for ideas; managing around obstacles; defusing tension; checking their egos; standing up for what they believe in; managing crises; developing team confidence; recruiting good people; effectively delivering bad news; handling defeat; and even engaging their enemies. Great leadership requires decisiveness, authority, conviction, compassion, and, most important, the ability to set the right example. Filled with examples of visionary leaders who have overcome their own shortcomings and achieved greatness, Lead by Example will show readers how to build trust, drive results, and win the respect of the people they lead.

100 Coaches are highly accomplished and compassionate people, each one committed to using their talents to make good people and organizations better. Together, we create a unique spectrum of talent including the world’s leading executive coaches, consultants, speakers, authors, iconic leaders, entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders.

A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Marcus Buckingham to Amy Edmondson and company examples from Lyft to Disney, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips. This book will inspire you to: Rethink whether constant, candid feedback really helps employees thrive; Move beyond diversity and inclusion to creating a racially just workplace; Adopt connected strategies that anticipate your customers' needs; Navigate the challenges of dual-career relationships; Understand when data creates competitive advantage--and when it doesn't; Break through the organizational barriers that impede AI initiatives; Lead in a new era of climate action. This collection of articles includes "The Feedback Fallacy," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "Cross-Silo Leadership," by Tiziana Casciaro, Amy C. Edmondson, and Sujin Jang; "Toward a Racially Just Workplace," by Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo; "The Age of Continuous Connection," by Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch; "The Hard Truth about Innovative Cultures," by Gary P. Pisano; "Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace," by Christian N. Thoroughgood, Katina B. Sawyer, and Jennica R. Webster; "When Data Creates Competitive Advantage," by Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright; "Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong," by Peter Cappelli; "How Dual-Career Couples Make It Work," by Jennifer Petriglieri; "Building the AI-Powered Organization," by Tim Fountaine, Brian McCarthy, and Tamim Saleh; "Leading a New Era of Climate Action," by Andrew Winston; and "That Discomfort You're Feeling Is Grief," by Scott Berinato.

GRACE under pressure features concise 30 min. interviews that address explore how leaders “keep it real” when the heat is on and people need their leadership most.