Level-Up Leadership

Michael J. Provitera

Description

Level Up Leadership is the first book with applied leadership development in one comprehensive read.

Sharing knowledge gained by the author for over twenty years, this book will change your way of thinking about leadership in a profound and advantageous way. is the first book with applied leadership development in one comprehensive read, gained by the author over twenty-years. This book will change your way of thinking about leadership in a profound and advantageous way. How? The book is designed to train your mind to think and act as an authentic leader. Your professional demeanor will enhance as you master the six factors covered in this book.

There are a plethora of leadership competencies that can be mastered. However, this book focuses on six that every leader must master to be successful. In addition to the seven chapters, four complimentary case studies apply your knowledge and leadership competency. Engaging leaders for success begins with your own personal skill development. Aspiring leaders will learn to develop skills that followers are eager to learn. Do not waste another moment, buy this book and watch your skills increase exponentially.

The additional resource materials are expansive. Make this day be the day that you begin to earn the credential of executive leader. After reading this book, you will become a certified leader. Read it then contact me. I guarantee it!

Sujets

• Gestion et management
• Economics
• Business
• Leadership

Informations

• Publié par: Business Expert Press
• Date de parution: 27 avril 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781951527150
• Langue: English

Extrait

Level-Up Leadership
Engaging Leaders for Success
Level-Up Leadership
Engaging Leaders for Success
Leadership Lessons from over 20 Years of Training Executives
Dr. Michael J. Provitera,
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Level-Up Leadership: Engaging Leaders for Success
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This book is dedicated to two amazing teenagers, Janet and Lauren Provitera, my children who I am so proud of today. To my best friend, Victor Sino, operational risk executive, whom I could always count on for support while writing this book. I attribute this book to the executives that I trained who inspired me to write it. Also, this book is another compliment to the great work of Business Expert Press and the great publishing team that they have designed to create over 900 excellent books for executives and graduate students worldwide.
Abstract
Level Up Leadership is the first book with applied leadership development in one comprehensive read. Sharing knowledge gained by the author over twenty-years, this book will change your way of thinking about leadership in a profound and advantageous way. How? The book is designed to train your mind to think and act as an authentic leader. Your professional demeanor will enhance as you master the six factors covered in this book.
There are a plethora of leadership competencies that can be mastered. However, this book focuses on six that every leader must master to be successful. In addition to the seven chapters, four complimentary case studies apply your knowledge and leadership competency. Engaging leaders for success begins with your own personal skill development. Aspiring leaders will learn to develop skills that followers are eager to learn. Do not waste another moment, buy this book and watch your skills increase exponentially. The additional resource materials are expansive.
Make this day be the day that you begin to earn the credential of executive leader. After reading this book, you will become a certified leader. Read it then contact me. I guarantee it!
Keywords
leadership; leadership development; level-up leadership; authentic leadership; professional communication; decision making; motivating people; managing people; leading people; leading change; change agent; transformational leadership; transactional leadership; motivation; inspiration
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Professional Communication and Authentic Leadership
Chapter 2 Decision Making
Chapter 3 Motivating People
Chapter 4 Managing People
Chapter 5 Core Leadership Principles
Chapter 6 Leadership and Change
Final Thoughts…
Complimentary Case Studies
Selected Bibliography for Future Reading
About the Author
Index
Foreword
Have you ever wondered what it would take to become a better leader, perhaps even an outstanding one? In that regard, is it necessary to overcome one’s own imperfections in order to become a great leader?
The answer is a compelling yes, according to The Arbinger Institute’s remarkable book Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box . A leader that is not an authentic one fails to overcome imperfections and may need a wake-up call. Only through authentic leadership can a leader truly succeed. We all tend to engage in “self-deception,” as the Arbinger Institute terms it. We need to admit that, as leaders, we may sometimes be the problem. Only by taking responsibility, addressing our limitations, and correcting our own problems can we help others solve theirs.
However, that conclusion is one that many leaders are reluctant to accept. There are no perfect leaders, just as there are no perfect people. One thing that I have observed from my own experience in the corporate world is that without good leadership, organizational teams are bound to be less successful and more dissatisfied and profitability suffers.
This insightful book, Level-Up Leadership , compiles all of Mike’s experience to date. He has managed to drill down to six factors of leadership that all leaders should manifest, apply, and advocate to both colleagues and followers. Once learned, leaders can engage followers and accomplish more than they had ever imagined. Mike has encompassed a way to communicate ideas that people want to read about, want to apply immediately, and, most importantly, want to share. He has a knack for blending both commonsense leadership ideas and practical application.
This book could change your life: When you finish reading it, you will feel as if you too can be a more effective leader like the many that have passed through his leadership executive training sessions conducted both nationally and internationally.
Preface
Some people are oppressed as children, others are from the wrong zip code, and then there is me.
I was a college student in a medium-size college in a borough of New York City. I met my first professor, and at the end of class one day, my cousin Vic asked him if he was a doctor. Professor D. said, “Yes!” He was a doctor of business administration, which was something that I did not know existed at the time. Right at that very moment, I wanted to become a doctor. Until then, I had not known that a person could be anything but a medical doctor. Naïve, I know, but what can you expect from an inner-city kid growing up with schoolyards and some small form of ponds, which were destined to be destroyed by the ongoing encroachment of condominium development in the neighborhood?
Another thing happened in that class while I was not aware that I was eventually on my way to Wall Street. While in class, the same Professor D. told the class that at least 50 percent of us were destined to work on Wall Street. That seed was planted and eventually grew.
After college, I worked my way up to an executive level on Wall Street. In that capacity, I earned my MBA and then my doctorate so that I can become a professor. Both degrees were paid for by the corporations that I worked at, so I immediately applied what I learned in the classroom to the workplace, and this helped me prosper.
Professor D., now also my friend and colleague, motivated me a great deal and left me with the desire to motivate and lead others. I love being able to be creative as a professor and leadership trainer to executives, and the short bursts of leadership from the podium when training or delivering a keynote presentation really energize me. I feel that I have an impact on people and that I am able to reach them deep down inside with my knowledge and skill of motivating people.
When you think about your career, remember what you loved as a child and then forget it. A child does not know the possibility of careers, but they do know how to dream. They only know what they are exposed to from the people around them. Ergo, limited experience, limited exposure, and limited dreams. Go with your passion and your authentic self. Discover what you were meant to be, and attempt to blend that with what you want to be. Never give up; do not feel that doing what you love will take too much time. Just put in the necessary effort necessary to reach your dream job. Run with the right people.
Sure, Professor D. influenced me a great deal and I hope that you can find a great mentor, but I had to continue to find mentors and people that I could learn from as I continued my journey as junior to senior executive. He was the seed, and I was the plant that continuously needed sun and water. Let this book be the seed that is planted inside you to motivate you to become the great leader that you are meant to be. With the six factors set forth in this book, you have the necessary tools in your toolbox for success—both personally and professionally.
I found my passion, and now it is time for you go out and find yours! Let us look at some general ideas of motivation and how it relates to leading people.
The SIX FACTOR LEADERSHIP concept was coined and became a way to train executives not only on the art of motivation but, most importantly, on leading effectively while motivating followers.
Overview of Level-Up Leadership
In my search to find compelling examples of what can be accomplished when people work for and report to a great leader to help their organization, community, or institution, the components of leadership that are most effective stood out among others. This is not to say that there are not other factors of leadership that are not also important. My focus is on six factors that are essential for leadership success.
What are the six critical factors that determine the success in leading people? What are the core elements that made leaders become effective at their task to motivate staff and followers? There are, of course, a number of forces that affect the leading of people: task, follower readiness level, and leadership style.
I am convinced that the true leaders of today can find attributes in the SIX FACTORS that relate to them. I believe that the leadership strategies that enable managers to become great at what they do are a set of principles that, while se