Leading for Engagement : 7 SINS and 7 SECRETS.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swanepoel, Tracey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Randburg : Knowledge Resources, 2022.

Summary:

The link between performance and employee engagement is proven, logical and compelling. And yet despite engagement ballooning into a billion dollar industry, levels over the past eight years have remained consistently disappointing - the needle is not moving in any significant way. Leading for Engagement: 7 Sins and 7 Secrets challenges leaders to address this. Firstly it highlights the 7 sins that kill engagement. More importantly, it clearly outlines 7 secrets that are scientifically proven to foster engagement. This book describes actionable steps which will enable every leader to:* Integrate strategy, culture and leadership, making them real and accessible to employees at all levels * Simplify the key elements of their company's strategy, and inject employees' work with purpose and meaning * Encourage discussion - the oxygen of change* Inspire alignment towards a clear destination* Harness the power of business stories to make messages stick* Be brave enough to show up authentically * Focus on being a great listener.By offering practical solutions to a fundamental problem, this book empowers leaders with tools and skills to create engaging and high performance environments."This book is compulsory reading for leaders who want to turbocharge their effectiveness and the significance of their legacy, for the good of all." Brand Pretorius, Retired Chief Executive of McCarthy Limited"Thank you to an outstanding author for nailing the essence of leadership."Dr Shirley Zinn, Chair and Independent Non-Executive Director of BoardsABOUT THE AUTHORSTracey Swanepoel completed her BA Communication (Hons) at RAU (cum laude) and her MBA at Henley Business School. She has a deep understanding of strategy, leadership, culture and change management and has pioneered a unique methodology which equips leaders with practical tools to engage employees and enhance businesses performance. She started her career in advertising, working as a strategic planner for FCB, Ogilvy and Grey Worldwide. After completing her MBA dissertation she spent five years at Harmony gold mining company as internal strategy executive before starting her own consulting business, THINKspiration in 2008. Tracey speaks and writes extensively on strategy, culture and leadership issues facing business and is passionate about developing practical solutions. Tracey's first book, "The Leadership Riptide - And How to Escape" was published in 2016, and was selected by the SABPP (South African Board of People Practices) in 2017 as one of their top 5 leadership books.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Full Title Page

ENDORSEMENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: Engagement: Seven Sins and Seven Secrets

Who is going to destroy me today?

The "Sunday scaries" are a thing

The engagement crisis: It's more than a feeling

What does this mean for companies?

What is engagement?

Why should leaders and companies want it?

Engaged people are the secret to exceptional performance

Leading for engagement: Seven sins and seven secrets

The Seven Sins and Seven Secrets

Strategy

How's that working out?

Culture

Culture is found in what leaders do, not what brochures say

Leadership

Where is your leading leading to?

Integrating strategy, culture and leadership - the leader's SIM card

Another day… (Yet) another initiative!

Seeing the big picture

We have lost the plot

Holding out for a hero

Fear: our Operating System (OS)

The power disease

Who we are is how we lead: Authenticity and connection

Don't be a know-it-all

Great leaders are great listeners

The seven Secrets

PART TWO: Leading Yourself

Chapter 1: Be brave enough to knowyourself and brave enough to show up as yourself

Looking for leaders in all the wrong places

If you are going to be anything, be spiky

Knowing yourself - what are you creating in your followers?

Honing your spikiness: purpose, passion and red threads

Doing what you love vs. finding what you love in what you do: the red threads

Brave enough to show up as yourself: authenticity, vulnerability and emotion

EQ: the secret sauce

Everywhere you go, you always take the "weather" with you!

How can we use our emotions to lead?

Leading from the heart

Chapter 2: Shut up and listen!

A world that won't stop talking!

Listening helps you connect.

Listening blows up stereotypes, and catalyses insights

Okay, so what is listening, really?

Why is listening so hard?

How do you become a good listener?

Some skills

Finally: A not-so-fringe benefit

To think about:

Work focused:

Person focused:

Chapter 3: Connect using the power of stories

What kind of stories?

Five reasons why stories make your message stick!

#1. Stories are memorable and impactful

#2. Stories convey emotions and emotions inspire action

#3. Stories create our identity, our culture, and colour our destiny

#4. Stories instantly convey authenticity, vulnerability and create connection

#5. Stories are influence tools that change people's minds

Story-powered leadership

We all speak story

Recognise that we are doing it anyway

What is a story?

The time and/or place marker

The series of events

Dialogue

The unexpected outcome

The business point

Putting stories to work - some health warnings

Stories at work: some examples

The "no story" approach

The "power of story" approach

Story listening

To do:

PART THREE: Leading Others

Chapter 4: Paint a picture of the future you want to create

Why a picture of the future works

Lego blocks vs the Art of the Brick

How?

Structured conversations

The visual analogy

Thinking out loud together

Chapter 5: Listen to where your people are

Listening forms the bedrock of an effectivecorporate strategy

Story powered culture transformation - change the stories, change the culture

The value of speaking into anti-stories

The value of future culture aspirational stories

Chapter 6: Distil your strategy into a compelling story and visualise it

The power of why: tell the story of your choices and decisions

The stickiness of stories.

Compelling moments

A picture speaks a thousand words

Can you "pink elephant" your strategy?

The pyramid of visualisation

Visual analogies are a shortcut to understanding

Visual Maps - the secret to leading for engagement

Visual Maps simplify, integrate and make sense of complexity

Visual Maps tell a story - which is memorable, emotional and compelling

Visual Maps create a shared and inclusive language

Visual Maps catalyse curiosity and encourage storytelling

Visual Maps spark stimulating and constructivediscussions

Visual Maps align everyone to the big picture

THINKspiration "Strategy to Story" Visual Maps

The Visual Map content architecture

The Visual Map prequel: the Feedback Visual

Chapter 7: Empower employees, from boardroom to shopfloor, to share the story

High quality conversations = high quality organisations

What prevents quality conversations?

Dialogue is the oxygen of change. Why?

Dialogue drives internalisation

Asking questions vs. asking the RIGHT questions

What is a good question?

Putting it into practice: The Map Discussion Manual (that also develops leaders!)

Where is my leading leading to?

The Visual Map "Strategy to Story" Discussion Manual

Getting the whole company talking about the right stuff

Line-driven roll-out

Practising before performing - Visual Map training workshops

The Visual Map launch

Ongoing conversations

IN A NUTSHELL

SEE IT IN ACTION: 1

Results

SEE IT IN ACTION: 2

Paint the Future Strategy Workshop

Listen to where the people are

The Chev's Visual Map

The Chev Visual Map Discussion Manual

Appreciation

References

Endnotes.

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Print version: Swanepoel, Tracey Leading for Engagement

ISBN:

9781869229412

OCLC:

1323251479