Leadership Through Trust & Collaboration: Practical Tools for Today's Results-Driven Leader

By Jill Ratliff

An executive coach shares the secrets to getting the most out of your team through inspirational tools that lead to real results.

Jill Ratliff worked as a Fortune 100 human resources executive for twenty-five years. In that time, she saw what amazing things leaders can do under the right circumstances. Now she shares the essential lessons she learned in Leadership Through Trust & Collaboration.

This practical leadership guide will teach you:

• How to communicate effectively in crisis situations

• How to inspire a sense of mission in your daily work

• How leading by example inspires trust

• How to build collaboration while on the job, not at expensive, time-consuming off-sites

• How these skills can lead to better personal lives for a company’s leaders—which can save millions!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: May 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781642798609

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INTRODUCTION

If you are reading this book you are someone who cares about developing leaders and teams that can achieve their full potential. You have committed yourself to doing just that. You’re responsible for being the keeper of people and culture initiatives for your organization, or you are a leader who wants to be the kind of leader that people trust and want to follow. You care about growing people as well as the business because you know that one is the fuel that produces the bottom line for the other.

You are passionate about your work and have invested a great amount of time figuring out the best way to help your CEO and your leaders grow. Sometimes you may feel that you care about it more than they do. You probably do. That’s OK. It’s your job and that’s why they need you.

Most CEOs and leaders want to be great. But they don’t have time to read and digest all the books, attend all of the workshops, and study all of the things that great leaders do. They’re busy running the business, and for the most part, they’re doing a pretty dang good job at it.

The truth is, for so many leaders, it would be enough if we could only figure out how to help them be their best self every day, in any situation, and not get tripped up by that one weakness, trait, or quality that gets in their way, the blind spot that they can’t see or figure out how to change, the one piece of behavioral feedback that follows them around on all of their 360 assessments. It usually gets attributed to the derailers in their personality assessments. You know, it’s the downside to their upsides.

What if it really doesn’t have anything to do with problems in someone’s personality? What if it has to do with simply being human and never having learned exactly how to navigate the harder parts of that, both for ourselves as leaders and for the people we lead? What if, instead of thinking that we all have personality flaws, it’s really just simple leadership skills and practices which, if they knew how, could close the gap and free leaders from overanalyzing themselves and everyone else so they could just do what they do best and enjoy being a