ILead Toolkit box set: People, Task and Thought Leadership

by Stuart Duff

This toolkit brings our three new titles (People, Task and Thought leadership) together in one set. We believe these three topics are the most important ingredients in making a successful leader. The people leader inspires others towards achievement of ambitious goals through a combination of communication, influencing and engagement skills. They are openly passionate about what they aim to achieve, yet caring and considerate in the way that they approach others. They know that people are their most valuable resource and will do their utmost to secure and retain the commitment of their teams. The thought leader constantly looks to new opportunities and the future. They quickly evaluate complex and ambiguous situations and are ready to analyse and challenge tough decisions. The thought leader initiates changes and improvements, and is imaginative and open to taking entrepreneurial risk. The task leader drives others towards achievement of ambitious goals through a combination of determination, resilience and clarity of focus. They take ultimate responsibility for the quality and delivery of results, and are highly skilled in the way that they delegate tasks and ensure that others are aware of the priority targets. They optimise performance and realise the full talents of the people around them in achieving results. Leadership draws on a diversity of talent and resources, and the most effective leaders understand how to make the most of the situations and people around them. The keys to successful leadership therefore are self-awareness and the capacity to change. While we may at times understand the attributes of leadership, we can often struggle to demonstrate these at the times when they are most needed. Our aim, therefore, is always to equip leaders with the skills they need, and more importantly to provide them with the motivation and desire to lead. The iLEAD™ tools address both of these challenges. We hope you not only enjoy reading the tools, but also find ways to make immediate and practical use of them in your own approach to leadership. Any manager aspiring to lead others will have a compelling interest in their own personal development. As coaches and experts in leadership skills, we have created iLEAD™, a series of three unique books based on the most important elements of business psychology. Over the past thirty years we have coached leaders from hundreds of different organisations across all sectors. Using a combination of our own models and the best emerging research, we have helped those leaders to engage in change and further their development. Now, for the first time, we have captured these models in three distinct books, one focused on people leadership, one on task leadership and one on thought leadership. Each book offers a chance for any manager to use some basic but essential psychology to help to improve and develop your approach.

408 pages, Paperback

Published March 16, 2015