Discover how to unlock the potential contained within your teams with this insightful resource
The Leadership Star: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building Staff Engagement provides readers with a step-by-step guide to developing engagement within their professional teams in for-profit, non-profit, academic, and governmental organizations. Experienced executive, management consultant, and author Brian Hartzer walks readers through the foundational and advanced techniques required to develop high performing professional teams. He shows readers how to:
Care about individuals as human beings, rather than as means to an end Provide context to people to help them understand the company and why what they do matters Give clarity by telling people what outcomes and behaviors are expected of them Help clear the barriers that stand in the way of people doing a great job Recognize individual contributions and success
Perfect for current and aspiring senior managers and executives who need to know exactly what they should personally do to draw out the best from their teams and build the highest levels of engagement, the book also belongs on the shelves of anyone with direct reports and anyone who hopes to enhance their own performance in the professional sphere.
By:
Brian Hartzer Imprint: Wiley Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 226mm,
Width: 150mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 340g ISBN:9780730390831 ISBN 10: 0730390837 Pages: 250 Publication Date:02 April 2021 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements ix Preface xi Introduction xiii Part I: The Leadership Star 1 1 Care 3 2 Context 27 3 Clarity 49 4 Clear the Way 81 5 Celebrate 109 Part II: Growing as a Leader 137 6 You 139 7 Communicate 157 8 Engagement in Times of Crisis 173 Conclusion 199 The Leadership Star: A Summary 205 Afterword 213 Appendix A: A Balanced Approach to Performance Assessment 217 Appendix B: Communication Channel Do’s and Don’ts 227 Bibliography 239 About the Author 243 Index 245
BRIAN HARTZER is an experienced financial services professional and a former CEO of Westpac. He is a veteran of New York-based banking strategy firm, First Manhattan Consulting Group, and has held senior roles at ANZ and the Royal Bank of Scotland.