Awaken Your Authentic Leadership - Authentic Leadership Conversations for Meaningful Connection - by Tana Lee Heminsley (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 222
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Leadership
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Authentic Leadership Global, Inc. - Publishing Division
Age Range: Adult
Author: Tana Lee Heminsley
Language: English

Book Synopsis

In her third book in the Awaken Your Authentic Leadership series, Authentic Leadership Conversations for Meaningful Connection, Tana Heminsley, CEO and Founder of Authentic Leadership Global(TM), continues to share groundbreaking insights, and practical tools for leading and living as an authentic and emotionally and socially intelligent leader. With the global pandemic changing the world forever, the need for leaders who are moral and ethical role models is greater than ever. These are authentic leaders.

In this book, Tana provides a number of different elements including:

18 Action Worksheets to stimulate new ways of thinking, to work through in detail, and to engage in learning conversations in order to:

build important well-known business skills such as facilitating a performance conversation or the process of delegation;

build newly recognized and emerging skills such as managing the inner critic or navigating transition and change;

build skills that support being authentic, including saying no and setting boundaries, living from the three centers of intelligence, and having authentic conversations;

transform your leadership by taking it to the next level by discovering new ways to lead when the old rules no longer resonate with you including skills such as how to cultivate joy at work.

• Contextual introductions for each topic - why it was written and who it was meant for.
• Instructions for how to use this book as an individual leader and as part of a team, in order to unleash the potential of every employee.

Review Quotes

"I first met Tana in the spring of 2017. Through her coaching she helped clarify my journey to become a Certified Organizational Coach. Her book Awaken Your Authentic Leadership resonated with me and validated my own approach to leading people. She encouraged me to challenge and reflect upon some of my beliefs and patterns, leading to new a fresh new approach to work and life for me.

In late 2017 I joined an organization that had become stuck. I wanted to approach this new role with my most authentic self and be fully present and never hesitate to do what was right and what I genuinely believed would make a difference. Focusing on values and purpose I set forth to make a significant impact as quickly as possible.

Leveraging my new knowledge and understanding, I immersed myself and evaluated what we needed to shift the existing culture to one of learning and growth. Once I had the buy in from the CEO to move forward, I engaged Tana and Laura to bring their Authentic Leadership Conversation training to our executive team, followed by team leaders and then the entire organization this year.

In early 2020 when the pandemic hit, we had to postpone our in person leadership training sessions and quickly pivoted to and created a new weekly company wide video meeting to create a safe space to share how we were feeling and make our company stronger in challenging and unprecedented times we find ourselves in.

I have no doubt that Tana's insight and dedicated practice of Authentic Leadership has positively impacted both our employee engagement and our double-digit revenue growth in the last two years."

Kerry Brock, MBA, Certified Organizational Coach, ACC

"Authentic Leadership Conversations(TM) are exactly that, authentic and conversations. They differ greatly from any "leadership workshop" I have either attended or facilitated; they are so much more. The theories and teachings surrounding topics such as "how to have difficult performance conversations" or "delegation" come to life in real time. There is an exchange of ideas, experiences, and opinions between all participants about the topic at hand which allows for practicing vulnerability, stepping out of one's comfort zone and leveling of the playing field by removing any leadership hierarchy for the duration of the conversation.

In addition to improving leadership skills, these conversations allow us to learn about each other. Assumptions are replaced with facts; journeys, mistakes and all, are shared; and the learning becomes lateral, between me as a facilitator, senior leaders, those just beginning their leadership journeys, and those somewhere in between."

Sarah Clarke, Coach, Authentic Leadership Program Facilitator

"I have been using the ALG topics for close to a decade now, both for my own development and with clients, in many sectors. What I know is that without a doubt, these materials inspire a deeper connection to self, leading to increased empathy and understanding of others. Overall, connection to self, connection to others."

Laura Mack, Executive and Leadership Coach, Authentic Leadership Program Facilitator and Trainer