Created especially for the Australian customer! Improve your leadership skills and bring out the best in the people you lead People may join organisations, but they stay because of good leaders. Find out how inspiring and bringing out the best in the people you lead helps you fulfil your organisation's visions and key priorities. Leadership For Dummies, Australian and New Zealand Edition, quickly gets you up to speed on the latest leadership theories, providing practical strategies and surefire techniques to ensure you and your followers are working in the same direction. Discover how to: Determine the right leadership style for the situation and your team Understand the mindsets you need to lead Articulate a vision and create a team purpose Communicate like a leader Manage expectations and achieve your goals

Created especially for the Australian customer!Improve your leadership skills and bring out the best in thepeople you leadPeople may join organisations, but they stay because of goodleaders. Find out how inspiring and bringing out the best in thepeople you lead helps you fulfil your organisation's visions andkey priorities. Leadership For Dummies, Australianand New Zealand Edition, quickly gets you up to speed on the latestleadership theories, providing practical strategies and surefiretechniques to ensure you and your followers are working in the samedirection.Discover how to:* Determine the right leadership style for the situation and yourteam* Understand the mindsets you need to lead* Articulate a vision and create a team purpose* Communicate like a leader* Manage expectations and achieve your goals

Introduction 1Part I: What it Takes to Be a Leader 7Chapter 1: What Leaders Are and What Leaders Aren't 9Chapter 2: Leading -- with the Right Style and the Right 'Hat' 19Chapter 3: Building Your Leadership Muscles 37Part II: Leadership Is Personal 63Chapter 4: Take the Lead? Me? 65Chapter 5: Leading in the Right Direction 79Chapter 6: Getting the Job Done 99Chapter 7: Communicating as a Leader 119Chapter 8: Who You Know Matters 143Part III: The Science and Art of Leadership 155Chapter 9: Managing Expectations 157Chapter 10: Bringing Out the Best in Your Followers 177Chapter 11: Removing Obstacles and Making Decisions 189Chapter 12: Spreading the Workload 209Chapter 13: Making Meetings Work 225Part IV: Building and Leading a Winning Team 243Chapter 14: Leading in an Age of Never-Ending Change 245Chapter 15: Building a Team with Muscles 257Chapter 16: Leading Special Teams 279Chapter 17: Leading Across Cultures and Across the Globe 303Part V: When the Going Gets Tough 321Chapter 18: When Followers Don't Follow 323Chapter 19: When Followers Don't Perform 333Chapter 20: When You Find Yourself in Deep Water 353Part VI: The Part of Tens 365Chapter 21: Ten Characteristics of a True Leader 367Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Be a Successful Leader 375Index 381