The Everyday Leader: Masterfully Lead the People Who Must Report to You

If you want one book that will be pivotal in engaging and growing your talents as you lead others, this is it. Grow yourself to grow your team then watch your performance and joy at work grow as well.The Everyday Leaderis titled to capture the wide range of leadership roles that position an awful lot of people to be “in charge” of the success of others. Whether you’re a committee chair, mid-level manager, community leader, entrepreneur or senior executive, if you are responsible for getting the best out of your direct reports or other workgroups, you wield considerable “power” over those in your charge, every single day. Why not be the best at it?The Everyday Leader is not a novel, it’s a resource to be used by leaders in an ongoing way. It provides just-in-time insights, stories, and strategies to apply to your leadership situations as they emerge.Based on both experience and research data, there’s no question that making the effort to build and sustain a work environment that motivates, challenges and excites people to do their best work, has high payoffs for the business and the individuals impacted. The quality of that work environment the leader creates or inherits can have lasting effects on everything from the health, hopes and home life of direct reports.Masterful leaders with supervisory responsibilities are adept in a number of areas. Among them are “People” capabilities, such as building trusting relationships, inspiring each employee to perform, lifting out and leveraging individual talents, and creating a motivating culture of accountability—all in service to achieving desired and required results. The “People” leader role has the most direct influence on those they supervise, and the quality of work they do and their feelings about doing it.The Everyday Leadersupports leaders at all levels. It synthesizes some of the best, easily digestible, and practical research on leading people. It reveals actual leadership (at all levels)in the trenchesexperiences along with concise descriptions of concepts and