Leading from the Middle

By Gill Bennet

In Leading from the Middle, an audio course from Scribd Coach, Gill Bennet provides leadership tools to help leaders thrive in diverse environments and become more effective, inclusive, empathetic leaders.

Through this dynamic course, which covers everything from unconscious bias to mental health, language to learning styles, you’ll learn how to build bridges and strengthen relationships by building a deeper understanding of the unique experience and perspectives of those around you, thanks to proven, practical strategies to help you foster an inclusive and collaborative environment.

Complete with actionable insights and exercises to help you apply what you’ve learned, Bennet’s expert guidance will give you all the information you need to lead from the middle, with confidence as well as kindness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Jul 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9781094461663

Gill Bennet

Gill Bennet has over a decade of experience successfully building high-performing, self-organizing teams, and helping individuals grow and business transform. She puts people at the centre of all her work. To learn more about Gill and her work, https://linktr.ee/leadingfromthemiddle, for her LFM Newsletter, free e-book, on-demand course, coaching enquiries, and more.

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Leading from the Middle

LEADING FROM THE MIDDLE

GILL BENNET

SCRIBD COACH

Contents

About Scribd Coach

Introduction

Unconscious Bias

Language

Learning

Mental Health and Mindfulness

Self-Awareness

Building Bridges

About the Author

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ISBN: 9781094461663

First e-book edition: July 2023

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Introduction

Hello everyone! I’m Gill Bennet, and you’re listening to Leading from the Middle, a course from Scribd Coach. Thank you so much for checking out this course; I’m looking forward to going on this adventure with you. Let’s get started!

What is leading from the middle all about? Let’s start with some expectation setting. First off, I want you to know that this isn’t your typical leadership course. I’m not an executive or a senior leader, and haven’t done any earth-shattering work. I’m just an ordinary human being, who has spent many years working through understanding myself, and where I fit in the corporate world. In this journey, I found that conventional understandings of leadership simply didn’t serve me.

There are certain qualities that we associate with leadership — when I’ve polled managers about this in the past, they associated leadership with terms like good listener, mentor, teacher, empathy, collaborator... you’ve probably heard it all before. These aren’t necessarily wrong answers… but what if I told you that these are just external traits, that there’s something that comes before all of this that makes us leaders? What if we can only have these traits if we have that one thing?

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