Lead Smart : How to Build and Lead Highly Productive Teams / Dermot Crowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowley, Dermot, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Teams in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Melbourne, Victoria : Wiley, [2024]

Summary:

Are you too busy to lead your team effectively? The simple truth is that leaders have never felt so distracted, so overwhelmed and so unable to find the time they need to make a real impact. In Lead Smart, productivity expert Dermot Crowley delivers proven strategies for cutting through the busyness and working and leading more effectively, maximising productivity for you and your team. You'll discover specific actions and solutions for shifting your focus from activity to impact -- so you can direct your energy to the opportunities and challenges that matter the most. With Lead Smart, you'll learn how to make productivity your central priority, so you can maximise your own time as well as that of your people. To be an effective leader, you need to protect your time to think, to plan, to make good decisions and to provide clear direction. You need to be responsive and available, so you can empower your team to act in line with your organisation's goals. And you need time to coach and mentor your people, leveraging their skills, capacity and productivity. Lead Smart shows you how to: Level up your time management and personal productivity, so you can minimise distractions and noise Streamline how you interact with your team and delegate more effectively Lead the team culture from the top down when it comes to aligning priorities, managing urgency and fostering accountability Boost your team's productivity by building conviction, effectively negotiating workloads and deadlines and protecting the team from outside distraction Inspire a wider cultural change around workload productivity in your organisation through your commitment to an elite productivity philosophy This moment in time, when we are defining a new way of working, is an opportunity for managers, leaders and executives to reflect on old mindsets, habits and behaviours. Lead Smart is the book you need to upgrade how you use your time, energy and focus to better thrive and inspire as a leader. This book is part of the Smart Productivity series, helping readers find practical solutions for better managing their time, energy and focus.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Productivity: A core strand in the leadership rope

What specific problems are we solving?

The four big productivity disrupters

I'm all in, but how do we do this?

Part I Yourself

Chapter 1 Know your productivity style

Your productivity bias

Which style do you identify with?

Choose the right resource for the job at hand

Chapter 2 Find your balance

Work/work balance

Chapter 3 Develop deep and wide focus

Wide focus strategies

Deep focus strategies

Chapter 4 Have more impact

Get above the line

Stay in your lane

Five strategies to get above the line

Prioritisation strategies

Part II Teaminterface

Chapter 5 Leverage your support

Productive EA strategies

Your direct reports

Chapter 6 Delegate early and well

When should you delegate?

How should you delegate?

Effective delegation matrix

Cc and delegation

Track your delegations

Chapter 7 Be responsive, not reactive

Responsiveness to email

Email overwhelm kills your responsiveness

Make yourself more available

Downsize meetings to discussions

Make sure interruptions are productive ones

Consider how your productivity style works with your teams'

Part III Your team

Chapter 8 Lead productive cultures

Self-centred or others-centred?

Team agreements are the link between intentions and behaviours

Your role as a leader in shifting the culture

Chapter 9 Create a contract of trust

Accountable culture

Fix the problem or fix the process

Part IV External Interface

Chapter 10 Practice respectful negotiation

Negotiating with other teams

Chapter 11 Inspire your peers

Conclusion

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781394188628

1394188625

9781394188611

1394188617

OCLC:

1399562523