Lead with Confidence : Essential Skills and Strategies to Succeed and Shine As a Female Leader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarvis, Jenny.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership in women.

Women executives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : SRA Books, 2025.

Summary:

Drawing on prior learning, practical leadership experience and the invaluable wisdom of experienced leaders, leadership practitioner Jenny Jarvis expertly equips you with 40 essential tools and frameworks alongside thought-provoking questions and practical strategies which will help you adopt a growth mindset and develop your skills and competencies. Combined, this support will help you navigate the most significant challenges female leaders face, while building your leadership skills and confidence.

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

Why a book like this is needed

What you’ll find in this book

Being a female leader

Becoming heroes

1 Establishing yourself as a leader

What kind of leader do you want to be?

 Toolkit item 1: Leadership style summary framework

 Toolkit item 2: Leadership style assessment tool

Your physicality

Day one mentality

Meeting your team and setting expectations

Toolkit item 3: Key questions to ask direct reports when you first meet them

Toolkit item 4: Establishing how you will work well with your staff members

Toolkit item 5: Being clear about how you like to engage with staff

Toolkit item 6: Setting out what kind of leader you are

Building your confidence as a leader

Finding the right coach, mentor or champion

Toolkit item 7: Introducing yourself to a champion

Chapter reflections

2 Leadership in practice

Establishing the operating framework for an effective team

Toolkit item 8: Managing a team on a contentious matter

Toolkit item 9: Tools to enable diversity of thought in a team

Leading your first major initiative

Toolkit item 10: Exploratory questions for a new initiative

Toolkit item 11: The RACI model

Toolkit item 12: Producing written findings following project assessments

Leading a working group on a sensitive topic Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781915483591

191548359X

OCLC:

1463076121