The Connected Leader
The Connected Leader offers new insights to improve business performance by engaging employees outside traditional boundaries; understanding and utilizing social networking provides the key to developing a more informed and holistic leadership role.
Traditional organizational boundaries limit our ability to deliver results. The Connected Leader argues that many of the old leadership recipes are outdated and don't take into account changes in the work environment and informal social networks within the organization.
Taking a new approach to leadership theory, the author argues that modern leaders engage with employees and improve performance by building on trust, giving meaning to workplace relationships and by creating dialogue within the organization. The Connected Leader provides diagnostic tools for readers to evaluate their own skills and directly relate the insights from the book to their own situation. International case studies provide clear examples of connected leadership.
REVIEWS :"Reading The Connected Leader you feel as if Gobillot has
invited you to join his informal network, to be one of his special
contacts, and that you have been given a privileged insight into
understanding through his vast array of assessment tools your own
organisation, and how informal networks can be used to make change
happen."
Michael Millward MSc for the CIP North Yorkshire Newsletter
Paperback, 224 Pages, Dimensions 234 x 153 MM Language English.
Part 1: The case for connections
Chapter 1 What do people want?
Chapter 2 How do organizations respond?
Chapter 3 What must leaders do?
Chapter 4 How can leaders succeed?
Part 2: Diagnostic questions
Part 3: The levers of connected leadership
Chapter 5 How to connect through trust
Chapter 6 How to engage through meaning
Chapter 7 How to sustain performance through dialogue
Part 3: Diagnostic questions
Part 4: Developing connected leadership
Chapter 8 Step 1: Understand the ‘real’
Chapter 9 Step 2: Map out the ‘formal’/‘real’ gap
Chapter 10 Step 3: Evaluate your impact
Chapter 11 Step 4: Develop connected leadership characteristics
Chapter 12 Step 5: Build a supporting context
Chapter 13 Concluding thoughts
Emmanuel Gobillot is a senior practitioner in the area of leadership and organization effectiveness, and an engaging speaker who frequently appears on television as a commentator on communication, innovation and leadership issues.