Cracking the Leadership Code - by Alain Hunkins (Hardcover)

Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Leadership
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Age Range: Adult
Author: Alain Hunkins
Language: English

About the Book

"The data consistently tells us that today's leaders are not prepared to lead their employees. Too many leaders don't understand what it takes for them to succeed. Author Alain Hunkins has extensive experience with training leaders, and he has discovered one common thread in all of these different leaders. They're keenly focused on what they do. But they're not so focused on how they do it, especially when it concerns doing it with other people. This narrow vision means that they don't see how their actions produce or destroy trust within their organization, improve or stifle communication between their employees, and build bridges or walls across hierarchies. Cracking the Leadership Code is a distillation of the principles and practices Hunkins used and refined over his twenty-plus years working with leaders. This book includes his experiences working with some of the world's top organizations and provides practical tools that will help others accelerate their learning curve and become the leaders they aspire to be. To thrive in the 21st century economy, organizational leadership needs an upgrade. Cracking the Leadership Code offers a new operating model, introducing a new perspective, a new framework, and new tools. The book argues that effective leadership focuses on a proactive relationship between leader and follower that through three distinct, but interconnected: Connection, Communication, Collaboration. Weaving together brain science, real-life stories, and a practical toolkit, the book shows readers how to communicate, influence, and persuade others more effectively than ever before"--

Book Synopsis

Become the effective, proactive leader you aspire to be with this practical tool kit for leading people and organizations

Yes, you can learn the skills to effectively lead people, organizations, and employees. With the right motivation and knowledge, you can be a leader who knows what it takes to succeed. Throughout his extensive experience in training leaders, author Alain Hunkins discovered that many leaders shared a common trait. They were mainly focused on what they were doing but not so focused on how they were doing it, especially when it came to working with other people. By strengthening their leadership capabilities, they could become trusted leaders within their organization, improve employee communications, and build bridges across hierarchies. Cracking the Leadership Code shares the valuable principles and practices that Hunkins developed and refined during the 20+ years he's worked with leaders.

When you crack the code, you'll have a new operating model for organizational leadership that will help your teams thrive in a 21st century economy.

• Discover the brain science behind leading people
• Get inspired by real life leadership stories
• Use a practical leadership tool kit to become a better leader
• Learn how to communicate, influence, and persuade others, more effectively than ever before

With this book as a resource, you'll have a new perspective, a new framework, and new tools at your disposal, readily available to guide your leadership. You'll learn to establish proactive, leader-follower relationships. To do this, you'll use the interconnected elements of Connection, Communication, and Collaboration.

When you learn from the author's insightful experiences working with organizations around the world, you can accelerate your leadership development and become the leader you've always aspired to be.

From the Back Cover

Leading well is difficult. It's disturbingly common for people to work in organizations with bad leaders. Feedback from employees shows they seek a new type of leader, better equipped to navigate the complexity and pace of our digital 21^st century. Leaders who know how to lead from purpose, connect with empathy, communicate with authenticity, and collaborate with transparency. This new type of leader is not born, but made. If you're committed, you can learn and apply specific tools, improve how you lead, and develop the skills and knowledge to make yourself into such a leader. Cracking the Leadership Code is designed to shorten your leadership learning curve and accelerate your leadership growth. Drawing from decades of fieldwork, author Alain Hunkins provides real world tools and insights for achieving exceptional leadership. This practical, straightforward guide enables you to improve employee engagement, increase productivity, reduce employee turnover, expand your influence, minimize stress, maximize your work and life satisfaction, and much more.

Divided into four parts, Cracking the Leadership Code guides you through each of the essential principles of strong leadership as you learn concepts and gain tools that you can apply immediately in your work for tangible results. You are first introduced to the framework of the Master Keys, Connection, Communication, and Collaboration, and presented with a brief history of organizational leadership. You will understand the cultural and societal forces that caused Old-School leadership to stop working, and why leaders are struggling to keep pace with changing times. The second part of the text decrypts the soft skill of Connection, including how to best develop empathy and build leadership credibility. Next, you will uncover the six keys to immediately improve perhaps the most difficult part of leadership: Communication. In Part Four, you take a deep dive into Collaboration, learning about motivation and how to avoid the common traps that leaders fall into when trying to motivate others. You'll find out how to become a motivational choice architect, an innovative model for motivational leadership designed to enable high performance. The final chapters explain the employee experience and how you can influence it to improve teamwork and collaboration. Each chapter features a resources section that distills the big ideas, while numerous tools, tips, and techniques for designing and implementing your own personal leadership development plan are found throughout.

Breaking any type of code, particularly one that deals with human behavior and communication, can be frustrating work filled with missteps, mistakes, and a lot of trial and error. But with patience, hard work, and a genuine desire to lead people well, Cracking the Leadership Code will help you decipher the secrets of effective leadership and become the leader you've always aspired to be.

About the Author

ALAIN HUNKINS is a sought-after speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach. Over his twenty-year career, he has led over 2,000 groups in 25 countries. Alain's clients include Wal-Mart, Pfizer, Citigroup, General Electric, State Farm Insurance, IBM, General Motors, and Microsoft. He has designed and facilitated seminars on numerous leadership topics, including teambuilding, conflict management, communication, peak performance, innovation, engagement, and change. Alain serves on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education and has published over 400 articles on leadership.