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The Outer Game of Leadership

How to Unite and Inspire Teams in Times of Challenge and Crisis

Paul O'Neill

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Lantern & Light Press
16 May 2025
What if your team isn't waiting for direction-but for safety, signal, and story?

The Outer Game of Leadership reveals the hidden choreography beneath high-performing teams. It's not just about plans or pep talks. It's about the signals you send, the tone you set, and the stories you help your people live inside.

Because in times of challenge or crisis, people don't follow instructions.

They follow unspoken cues.

This book equips you to lead the system-not by controlling behaviour, but by shaping the atmosphere that behaviour breathes in.

You'll learn how to:

Stabilise team dynamics using Safety-Embedded Structures Generate real-time trust with Safety Priming and Co-Regulating Humour De-escalate tension with Vocal Prosody, Third-Point Communication, and State Control Read the room using Non-Verbal Acuity-posture, breath, gaze, silence Align fragmented groups through shared stories, metaphor, and narrative identity

This is the leader as steward-not of process, but of meaning.

Drawing on neuroscience, behavioural psychology, NLP, and live fieldwork in volatile settings, Paul O'Neill offers more than 30 practical techniques to unify teams under pressure. Tools like Gold Seam Mining, PACE Surfacing and Unity BRIDGE help uncover what's unspoken, heal where trust has frayed, and align teams through a shared sense of purpose.

Whether you're facing disengagement, complexity, or quiet collapse, this book shows you how to rebuild not just morale-but momentum.

This is Volume II in the Neuro-Resilience Skills series, designed to follow The Inner Game of Leadership. Where Volume I trains your state, this volume trains your signals and systems-so your calm becomes contagious, your presence magnetic, and your message one the group wants to carry.

If you've ever led a team that heard your words but didn't follow your energy, this book helps you lead what truly matters.

Not just behaviour. Atmosphere.

Not just action. Alignment.

Not just leadership. Cohesion.
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Imprint:   Lantern & Light Press
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   499g
ISBN:   9781764063968
ISBN 10:   1764063961
Series:   Neuro-Resilience Skills
Pages:   276
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for The Outer Game of Leadership: How to Unite and Inspire Teams in Times of Challenge and Crisis

""It's rare that I would use such a word but it's extremely well-earned in Paul's case: he is a visionary. His ability to make the complex simple, to get to the heart of an issue and to recommend an effective solution is outstanding. His vitality and energy is infectious"" Emma Jensen, Vice President, Small Business, OPTUS ""Through the lens of research in neuroscience, Paul can forge interventions that promote resilience. His type of coaching allowed me to be better equipped to cope with stress and adversity, at my level, but also recognising the signs in other people and helped me being a better manager"" Jessica Scalzo, Variety Improvement Manager, COSTA ""Paul offers a refreshing take on leadership and workplace change strategies. He provides time efficient tailored insights and solutions to support and equip leaders to develop, reframe perspectives and shift the status quo to deliver positive outcomes suited to today's dynamic work environment"" Elizabeth Brockbank, Environmental Manager, ALCOA ""Paul is one of the energizing and gifted leaders I know. He is also one of the most skilled NLP practitioners I have had the good fortune to meet"" Tim Dalmau, CEO at Dalmau Consulting ""As a leader, Paul has a unique quality rarely seen in today's leaders and that is: the ability to find and bring out 'the best' in people"" Tony Enache, CFO, Farm Pride Foods. ""Paul demonstrated a balanced consultative senior management approach that could quickly interpret and translate detailed plans and how they could consolidate into overall strategies for KPI success"" Peter Sheehan, Director GM, Western Sydney Airport. ""Paul is an excellent trainer who has transformed my life. His amazing skills, dedicated care and consistent emotional intelligence has opened a new world for me to view"" Philip Hoang, Data Engineer, CBHS ""Paul has been an invaluable asset to both myself personally and in my business strategies. Paul and his unique skill set have aided constant changes in the business and personal arena that mean I achieved positive rather than negative outcomes personally and financially"" Ben Kavich, Director, Workhorse Group of Companies


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