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LEADERSHIP & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT A toolbox for the 21st century professional Katja Kruckeberg Wolfgang Amann Mike Green ~lAP Leadership and Personal Development A Toolbox for the 21st Century Professional Editors: Katja Kruckeberg International Leadership Consultant Wolfgang Amann Goethe Business School and Mike Green Henley Business School “This page left intentionally blank.” Leadership and Personal Development A Toolbox for the 21st Century Professional edited by Katja Kruckeberg International Leadership Consultant Wolfgang Amann Goethe Business School and Mike Green Henley Business School Information Age Publishing, Inc. Charlotte, North Carolina • www.infoagepub.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Leadership and personal development : a toolbox for the 21st century professional / editors: Katja Kruckeberg, Wolfgang Amann, and Mike Green. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-61735-553-0 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-61735-554-7 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-61735-555-4 (e-book) 1. Leadership. 2. Success. 3. Maturation (Psychology) I. Kruckeberg, Katja. II. Amann, Wolfgang. III. Green, Mike, 1959- BF637.L4L384 2011 658.4’092--dc23 2011028161 Copyright © 2011 IAP–Information Age Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, or by photocopying, microfi lming, recording or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS Foreword ................................................................................................... vii Introduction to Leadership and Personal Development Katja Kruckeberg, Wolfgang Amann, and Mike Green ...................................... 1 PART I: EXPLORING YOU IN YOUR WORLD 1. E xploring Your Strengths Katja Kruckeberg ................................................................................. 15 2. U nderstanding Your Personality Katja Kruckeberg ................................................................................ 27 3. P ersonal and Organizational Values Helen Stride ........................................................................................ 55 4. D iscovering Your Emotional Capabilities Mike Green ......................................................................................... 69 PART II: SELF-LEADERSHIP 5. S elf-leadership: Circles of Life Katja Kruckeberg ................................................................................. 89 6. S elf-coaching and Learning Chris Dalton ...................................................................................... 111 7. C reating Your Personal Vision Mike Green and Katja Kruckeberg ....................................................... 125 PART III: COMMUNICATING MORE CREATIVELY 8. C ommunicating More Effectively Franklin De Vrede and Katja Kruckeberg ............................................. 145 9. A dvanced Facilitation Skills Claire Collins .................................................................................... 171 v vi CONTENTS 10. P olish Your Coaching Skills Patricia Bossons and Denis Sartain ..................................................... 185 PART IV: REFINING YOUR RELATIONSHIP SKILLS 11. H ow to Build a Network That Works Didier Gonin ..................................................................................... 205 12. B uilding Relationships and Working in Teams Across Cultures Erich Barthel ..................................................................................... 223 13. R elational Aspects of Coaching and Communication Claire Collins ................................................................................... 243 PART V: ELEVATING YOUR LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES 14. S ystemic Leadership Daniel Pinnow ................................................................................ 259 15. S tepping into Your Leadership Roles Mike Green ..................................................................................... 273 16. L eading in a Virtual Environment Inger Buus ...................................................................................... 287 17. L eading More Effectively Through Feedback Phil Cullen ...................................................................................... 301 PART VI: LEADING YOURSELF AND OTHERS THROUGH COMPLEXITY 18. C omplexity Skills Wolfgang Amann, Christoph Nedopil, and Shiban Khan ...................... 317 19. C risis Management Skills Wolfgang Amann, Shiban Khan, and Christoph Nedopil ...................... 331 20. C reativity Skills for the 21st Century Professional Mike Green, Katja Kruckeberg, and Wolfgang Amann ......................... 343 21. K ey Lessons on Leadership and Personal Development Katja Kruckeberg, Wolfgang Amann, and Mike Green ......................... 357 About the Editors and Authors ...............................................................365 FOREWORD Currently, the business world calls for strong personal leadership. This may be where leadership is concerned with keeping talents on board and recruiting new ones at an amazing pace, or where leadership is about dra- matic turn-around of large organizations that allow them to survive extremely turbulent conditions. Whether it is about leaders in the East or in the West, this book addresses an important area by focusing on the link between leadership and personal development. It will help executives mobilize people and provide them with the appropriate skills to meet the fast changing business conditions. Besides having these skills, successful people need to have a much clearer sense of purpose, direction and of how they personally fi t into the greater picture. Professionals seek inspiration on how they should engage with others and make them thrive amidst chaos. This book offers executives and their teams highly relevant practical tools and methods that are indeed inspira- tional. Real life cases and the latest thinking in this prominent fi eld provide inspiration and applications that can be easily accessed and used on the job. Specifi cally, this book offers proven and cutting-edge insights into the leadership domain, such as leading in a virtual environment, systemic lead- ership, networking skills, and self-leadership. The chapter on complexity skills provides an excellent introduction to preparing for and dealing with crises, including the challenging issues of how to stimulate creativity while maintaining direction. All in all, this book serves as guide to all those who care about effective lead- ership in practice, who are guided by a sense of value and a clear vision, and who thrive on leading themselves and others towards well-balanced goals, ambitions, and businesses. This books value lies in not only reading and vii viii FOREWORD reviewing leadership and personal development theories, but applying these leadership and personal development skills in practice. It is worth the effort. August 2011 Jørgen Thorsell, CEO Mannaz Ltd. Hong Kong, China Inger Buus, Executive Vice President, EMEA London, Great Britain INTRODUCTION TO LEADERSHIP AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Katja Kruckeberg, Wolfgang Amann, and Mike Green WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THE BOOK? This is the fi rst book on leadership and personal development for practis- ing managers and professionals that fully takes into account that the world has changed drastically in the past decades, and continues to do so in ways and at a pace, that few could have anticipated! In some respects, we don’t know what the future holds for us, either on the macro-level, or on the micro-economic, political, sociological, and environmental level. However, by concentrating on ourselves, by knowing exactly who we are and what is important for us, by creatively envisioning a future based on our greatest strengths, and by equipping ourselves with key tools and skills, we will cope up well with this level of uncertainty. WHAT WILL THIS BOOK DO FOR YOU? First and foremost, it will provide you with new ways of thinking about and behaving toward the changes around us. Since the three authors and editors Leadership and Personal Development: A Toolbox for the 21st Century Professional, pp. 1–11 Copyright © 2010 by Information Age Publishing All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. 1
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