Joseph O’Connor - Leading With NLP - Essential Leadership Skills for Influencing and Managing People

NLP explores how people think and the results they get. Complexity and systems thinking explore the organizations they create as they work together. These ideas are fascinating and practical – which is why I write about them. Together they are the basis of our map.

Organizations are fond of saying that the quality of the people who work in them gives them their competitive edge. At the risk of being heretical, I doubt this very much. Every organization has excellent people of high quality. The leaders make the difference. They determine the quality of the experience of working in that business, they weave that indefinable, yet very important fabric – the organizational culture. At the same time, I believe everyone in an organization can be a leader in some way. I hope this book is a step towards making this possible and real.

My goal in this book is to weave the three strands of leadership into a thread to guide you through the twists and turns of the leader’s path. There are suggestions and exercises to develop yourself as a leader, to influence others in any situation where you are called on to lead, and to learn systemic thinking skills and apply them in a professional business context.

There are seven sections:

The first begins the journey. It starts with your vision – why be a leader? What does it mean?

The second section deals with different types of leaders and styles of leadership, explaining how when, where and why they are useful.

The third section starts to move away from the present and looks at vision, values and purpose, both organizational and individual.

The fourth looks at motivation and how to build it, also the dark side of leadership, the difficulties and obstacles.

The fifth deals with resources on the journey— the maps, guides and rules of the road.

The sixth looks at the guardians you will meet on the way and how to overcome them, how to build trust and be trust-worthy.

The guardians are not only external difficulties such as resistance from other people and organizational inertia, but also your own internal resistances and blocks.

The seventh section is about the skills and responsibilities you face as a leader and how you might get a business to fly in formation.

The last section is about passing on the skills you have learned to others through coaching and mentoring. It also has a summary of the principles of leadership.

There is also a resource section at the end with a bibliography.

Use this book to form your leadership skills, to develop yourself and others. Use it to stimulate ideas for dealing with management problems.

However, this book alone won’t make you a leader. I have a friend who is a fitness fanatic. He buys all the magazines, is a member of a well-equipped gym and has an exercise bicycle in his bedroom. Yet the only exercise he gets is when he lifts the piles of health and fitness magazines from bedside table to bookcase. He tells me he really will do some exercise – but he just does not have time right now. And he always seems to have something more important to do. He wants the health and well-being that exercise will bring him, but without doing the work.

Bearing this in mind, if you are ready, I invite you to step out on the first stage of the leader’s journey.

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