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The Group Dynamic Field Guide: 51 Ideas Leaders Can Use Today
With a bias toward action, this Field Guide will provide hope, inspiration, and a way to put leadership into practice. While you can read from beginning to end, the format makes it easy to pick and choose the most urgently needed tools.
The world and workplace do not wait for leaders to be properly assessed, trained, and
"developed." Instead, people end up getting promoted because someone else left. People take the chair of a committee because it's "their turn." And we’ve all seen people promoted to leadership because they were good at their job, even though that job may require a totally different skill set.
As we continue to explore and develop leaders, we can all turn to this definition when we're overwhelmed:
Meet Needs.
This requires curiosity - a leader has to ask "What's needed?" then act on it.
It could be...
"What does she need from me?"
"What does this team need right now?"
"What does he need to hear to do his best work?"
Consider a bias toward action. The world moves when we do. Lack of initiative doesn't result in lack of change, it results in decay. It all comes down to “what’s needed now.”
Leadership is the act of meeting needs. This book will help you do just that.
The world and workplace do not wait for leaders to be properly assessed, trained, and
"developed." Instead, people end up getting promoted because someone else left. People take the chair of a committee because it's "their turn." And we’ve all seen people promoted to leadership because they were good at their job, even though that job may require a totally different skill set.
As we continue to explore and develop leaders, we can all turn to this definition when we're overwhelmed:
Meet Needs.
This requires curiosity - a leader has to ask "What's needed?" then act on it.
It could be...
"What does she need from me?"
"What does this team need right now?"
"What does he need to hear to do his best work?"
Consider a bias toward action. The world moves when we do. Lack of initiative doesn't result in lack of change, it results in decay. It all comes down to “what’s needed now.”
Leadership is the act of meeting needs. This book will help you do just that.
225 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 9, 2016
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About the author
Alan Feirer
2 books1 followerAlan Feirer is a leadership trainer, Authorized Wiley DiSC Partner, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Authorized Partner, and organizational development consultant. For the last 18 years, he has done business as Group Dynamic, helping people solve problems and get more done by working with managers, directors, leadership teams, staffs, and team members to maximize the potential of their organization through leadership training, coaching, team-building and communications training.
Mr. Feirer lives in Winterset, Iowa, with his wife, Julie, and daughter, Mara. Feirer's other interests include competitive Scrabble, exercise, travel, dining, and anything Disney related.
Mr. Feirer lives in Winterset, Iowa, with his wife, Julie, and daughter, Mara. Feirer's other interests include competitive Scrabble, exercise, travel, dining, and anything Disney related.
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June 9, 2016
Excellent. Filled with a distillation of great leadership strategy, nuanced and well used with multiple audiences, this book is both easy reading and practically useful. I read through in one sitting. Then went back and marked all the chapters I need to really thing about and get in place better in my work place. After years of reading academic leadership literature, I was ready for this book. It complements the solid leadership advice given over the past twenty years by some of those gurus the author quotes or mentions as mentors. It challenges some of the more recent thinking, with logical and carefully thought out reasoning. It also gave me some new ideas to think about and put into action in my own setting.
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