Connect: Affective Leadership for Effective Results

by Lyn Boyer

Overview

Connect: Affective Leadership for Effective Results explores skills, assumptions, and attitudes leaders use to build relationships and create a better future for themselves and their organizations. These often-forgotten physical and emotional components of leadership attract and encourage others to join leaders in pursuing a frequently uncertain path. Leaders who use Affective Leadership skills connect with others to create and strengthen emotional bonds and productive action.
Leaders are invited to Connect:
• To Their own Learning
• To Thoughts and Attitudes
• To Appropriate Leadership Presence
• To Thoughtful and Genuine Emotional Interaction
• To Intentional Language that builds trust
• To Reflective Listening and Asking Probing and Powerful Questions
• To Trust and Collaboration
• To Lightness
All of these help them to Connect with others. In addition to thoughtful discussion of personal and professional learning, leaders will find reflective and physical practices designed to promote mastery of these skills.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013247598
Publisher:	Leadership Options, LLC
Publication date:	10/25/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	202
File size:	653 KB

About the Author

Lyn Boyer works to maximize possibilities and minimize distress for individuals, groups and organizations. Through leadership and team coaching, consulting, presenting, writing and teaching, she promotes the benefits and teaches the skills of Affective Leadershipsm—the notion that leadership is not only what a person does: it is who the person is.
As a High School Principal, Coordinator of Leadership Development, college instructor and consultant she has had the opportunity to work with many leaders and leadership teams in large and small, public and private sector organizations. Her work with aspiring, new and experienced leaders focuses on the components of leadership that get results through building relationships. These components include self-assessment, emotional intelligence, trust buildiing, leadership presence, coaching and mentoring. Her observations and experiences enrich her own practice.
Through Leadership Options, she is developing an in-person and online community to share ideas and issues relevant to leaders who want to make a difference through the practice of Affective Leadership.
Readers can read her blogs at www.LynBoyer.net and they can learn and participate in this community at LeadershipOptions.com.
Dr. Boyer travels extensively and resides on the beautiful west coast of Florida with her husband and two rescue dogs, Sam and Alex.

Editorial Reviews

"One of the biggest breakdowns we see globally in terms of leadership is how often technical experts are moved to leadership positions under the false assumption that their expertise in one area will make them effective in the other. This idea has little to no grounding and the result is leaders who fail, leaders who are lost and leaders who are unable to lead. "Connect" is a valuable resource for those leaders or anyone who finds themselves in a leadership role and in need of a compass to nav

Dan Newby