Saying It Right: Tools for Deft Leadership

by Michael B. Gilbert

Overview

Saying it Right deals with the techniques and processes necessary to transmit and understand messages from people inside and outside of organizations. It looks at problems that can impede communication and outlines methods for understanding others. Important in this understanding are how people perceive the world, what they need to motivate them, what channels they prefer, and the predictable patterns of distress they exhibit when they do not get their needs met positively.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475856118
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/06/2020
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.33(w) x 9.17(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Michael Gilbert, Ed. D., is a former school administrator and university professor of educational leadership, with an active professional career spanning 45 years. He has been involved in researching and consulting on communication and interaction for the past 35 years.

Table of Contents

Dedication

List of Tables

List of Figures

Foreword – Dr. Taibi Kahler

Preface

Acknowledgments

Section I. RAW MATERIALS: LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS

Chapter 1: THE BEGINNING STAGE

Chapter 2: CHAOS: THE WRINKLING OF ORDER AND LOGIC

Chapter 3: THE START OF COMMUNICATION

Chapter 4: COMMUNICATION BLUEPRINTS: DIFFERENT TOOLS FOR DIFFERENT BUILDERS

Section II.BUILDING BLOCKS: PURE EDUCATOR PERSONALITIES

Chapter 5: PURE HARMONIZER: BARBARA

Chapter 6: PURE THINKER: ALFRED

Chapter 7: PURE PERSISTER: MATTHEW

Chapter 8: PURE IMAGINER: DOROTHY

Chapter 9: PURE REBEL: ANGIE

Chapter 10: PURE PROMOTER: DOUG

Section III. PUTTING THINGS TOGETHER: BUILDING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Chapter 11: DEALING WITH CONFLICT

Chapter 12: SOLVING PROBLEM COOPERATIVELY: A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS

Chapter 13: Changing Leadership Behavior

EPILOGUE: Installing the Capstones

Editorial Reviews

If you adhere to the fact that effective communication is a requisite skill for effective leadership, then Saying It Right: Tools for Deft Leadership is a must have reference for your library. Michael Gilbert provides his readers with a literal toolbox of techniques for effective communication. Each technique is designed to enhance leadership skills, listening skills, and help leaders engage in garble-free messaging. This book provides a blueprint for success and will serves as a tremendous resource for all who read it.

Thomas L. Williams

With Saying it Right, Gilbert has provided the definitive guide on understanding the nature, purpose, and power of interpersonal communication. Even better, this book offers a blueprint for applying this behavioral technology with all different personality types. A must-have for any leader.

Nate Regier

I have known Dr. Michael Gilbert for many years and have come to value his clear thinking and succinct way of transmitting knowledge. He is a man of integrity with a broad and deep understanding of human behaviour. If you do not know him, you will discover how he adds value, in the pages of this book. If you know him already, you will want to read this latest offering.

John Parr

The "organizational insanity" of education institutions is played over and over again as leaders continue to look for inputs to solve problems related to gaps in program implementation and inefficiency. Michael Gilbert reminds us that the time and effort put into effective communication will do more to create and sustain thriving organizations than the abundance of programs and applications in which we so readily invest.

John D. Tackett