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The Leadership Star

A Practical Guide to Building Engagement
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The Leadership Star by Brian Hartzer offers a framework for effective leadership in the business arena. Through engaging anecdotes and practical advice, it guides leaders on how to inspire trust, drive performance, and foster a positive work culture. The book explores the essential qualities needed to excel in leadership roles while providing actionable insights for personal and professional growth.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in discovering effective leadership techniques for managing diverse teams and fostering a positive work culture. The insights provided by the author can be especially appealing if you're looking to enhance your leadership skills in the business and entrepreneurial landscape.

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Discover how to unlock the potential contained within your teams with this insightful resource.

The Leadership Star: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building Staff Engagement provides readers with a step-by-step guide to developing engagement within their professional teams in for-profit, non-profit, academic, and governmental organisations. Experienced executive, management consultant, and author Brian Hartzer walks readers through the foundational and advanced techniques required to develop high-performing professional teams. He shows readers how to:

  • Care about individuals as human beings, rather than as means to an end.
  • Provide context to people to help them understand the company and why what they do matters.
  • Give clarity by telling people what outcomes and behaviours are expected of them.
  • Help clear the barriers that stand in the way of people doing a great job.
  • Recognise individual contributions and success.

Perfect for current and aspiring senior managers and executives who need to know exactly what they should personally do to draw out the best from their teams and build the highest levels of engagement, the book also belongs on the shelves of anyone with direct reports and anyone who hopes to enhance their own performance in the professional sphere.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780730390831

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 April 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 280

About the Author

BRIAN HARTZER is an experienced financial services professional and a former CEO of Westpac. He is a veteran of New York-based banking strategy firm, First Manhattan Consulting Group, and has held senior roles at ANZ and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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