6 Leadership Skills (PREMIUM EDITION): A Compact Guide to Creating Transformational Leaders, Teams and Workplaces

By Eleonora Bonacossa

Initiate Game-Changing in your organization through the 6 Leadership Skills, today!

Being a true leader is a matter of training. Your team, your organization and the world need you to be a courageous and authentic leader. And it needs to be now!

With these 6 leadership skills you will become the Game-Changer in your organization, as

• Language: English
• Publisher: 24by7 Publishing
• Release date: Jul 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9783982361277

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Eleonora Bonacossa

6 Leadership Skills to Unleash the Game Changer in You and Your Team

Eleonora Bonacossa

6 Leadership Skills

TO UNLEASH THE GAME CHANGER

IN YOU AND YOUR TEAM

A Compact Guide to Creating

Transformational Leaders, Teams, and Workplaces

FOREWORD by Dr. Sujata Dutta

EPILOGUE by Dr. Thomas Hesse

Neue Business-Kultur Verlag

6 Leadership Skills

©Neue Business-Kultur Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2022

Areta new perspectives for leaders

Im Mittleren Sand 55

65936 Frankfurt, Germany

1st Edition May 2023

ISBN 978-3-9823612-7-7

The original German edition was published in October 2021 by

Neue Business-Kultur Verlag under the title

6 Leadership Skills, die Dich zum Gamechanger machen.

Author: Eleonora Bonacossa

Translation: Paul Hearn

Editor: Jackie Hieronymus

Cover, Typesetting, Layout: 22puntoZero

Publishing Consultant: Daniela Cisi

All rights reserved.

The work may only be reproduced - even in part –

with the prior permission of Eleonora Bonacossa.

Printed in India. Distributed by

24by7Publishing.com

This book is dedicated to you, dear reader,

and to the courageous people

who view leadership as an opportunity for transformation.

May your humanity and curiosity be the foundation

for collaboration, reciprocity, and Co-Elevation.

That’s what leadership is!

CONTENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD by Dr. Sujata Dutta

PROLOGUE

ONE

Recognize you don’t have all the Answers

TWO

Listen Proactively

THREE

Provide Safety

FOUR

Appreciate

FIVE

Care

SIX

Encourage

FUTURELOGUE

At the End of the Journey, recognize you don’t have all the Answers

EPILOGUE by Dr. Thomas Hesse

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SOCIAL MEDIA & SPECIAL CONTENT

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eleonora Bonacossa (M.Sc. SDA Bocconi School of Management) is an internationally certified business coach and founder of ARETA new perspectives for leaders (based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany), a leading European provider of key competencies and development solutions for leadership in a new work and business environment.

Through deep awareness and proven practices, she provides her clients with tools, frameworks, and tailored exercises to strengthen their leadership confidence, courage, and their human touch. She is a champion of proactive listening and asking meaningful questions to help her clients get to the heart of the problem in a highly focused manner.

In addition to offering leadership coaching, dynamic workshops, and inspiring keynotes, she is also an effective, versatile, and passionate advocate for the encouragement of women as Change Instigators across Europe, Russia, and India.

Her best-selling coaching program, which she also provides to German educational institutions, has the encouraging title I CAN DO IT. Recently, Dr. Eleonora Bonacossa was named one of Passion Vista magazine's Women Leaders to Look up to in 2022, and Entrepreneurs Herald Magazine listed her as one of the Top 20 Business Coaches to look out for in 2021.

With this new book, she aims to place the human side of business in the foreground and encourage leaders and employees to become real Game Changers.

INTRODUCTION

Among all of the species on Earth,

only human beings can consciously connect with and reshape

their future. We have a choice whether to perpetuate the old rules

of our collective behavior - or to change them.

Otto Scharmer

The many forms of misery and emotional distress people endure in their professional activities – be they in leadership positions or not – including apathy, burnout, stress, indifference, frustration, closed-mindedness, distrust, and defensiveness, have always been of great concern to me. At times I have been shocked, sometimes even appalled, and I have never been left unaffected by their pain and distress. Why does professional activity, created by people for people, often create so much suffering? What is the root cause of this?

As a business coach, management consultant, and interpreter for an Italian Catholic religious leader, who for many years carried out pastoral work in Germany, I was given ample opportunity to observe these phenomena from various points of view.

The Emotional Distress at Work seen from Different Perspectives

When working as a business coach, I am frequently confronted with the suffering of both employees and executives in connection to their professional activities. The former often site feelings of alienation and loneliness, as well as feeling ignored or of not being heard. In addition, they feel threatened, trapped, unappreciated, or even useless. Working in fear, not being able to give honest feedback, feeling uninformed, working with limited potential, and feeling like they cannot develop, are further facets of this distress.

I have often met managers who have no idea what really drives their employees, how they can be motivated, or even how to reach out to them. Loneliness, existential fears, loss of control, and feeling unable to connect heart and head when making decisions, are often their concerns when they seek out coaching.

I witness how my clients suffer in their inability to increase productivity, develop a solid