The Act of Leadership

Unlock your true leadership potential with this insightful guide

In The Act of Leadership, acclaimed leadership and performance coach Dan Haesler shares the insights, techniques, and habits you need to thrive, both professionally and personally. By combining real-life case studies, cutting-edge research, and incisive coaching techniques, this one-stop leadership playbook will help you better understand yourself and the people around you. You can become not only the leader you want to be, but the person your people need you to be, both at work and at home.

As a leader, you might know exactly what you need to do, but be less clear on how to do it. You might know you need to have that difficult conversation but are unsure about how to have it. You might know you need to hold your team accountable but don’t know how to do it in a manner that builds authentic engagement rather than mere compliance. The Act of Leadership goes beyond theory. It is a coaching playbook designed to empower you to be the leader you aspire to be and the leader your people need you to be.

Most books explain the what and the why of leadership; The Act of Leadership demonstrates the how. Author Dan Haesler takes a coaching approach, combining his years of experience as an educator and coach to corporate leaders, elite athletes, teams, and educators, to reveal pivotal insights and enlightening case studies. These will help you define what kind of leader you want to be and understand how to get the best out of yourself and the people around you.

You will also discover the importance of thinking and acting mindfully, instead of on autopilot. Using the mindfulness techniques employed by World Champions, you can lead in the moment, sharpen your intent, and increase your impact.

• Let go of your biases and assumptions to see the impact you have on others.
• Adopt a growth mindset to help you deal with setbacks and mistakes.
• Create organisational change that succeeds by engaging people, so that change is done with them, not to them.
• Adopt a coach-like mentality and use engaging techniques to improve your day-to-day interactions with the people you lead.

With each chapter serving as a one-on-one coaching session, The Act of Leadership will help you create new habits and new ways of being in your day-to-day leadership, as well as in life away from work, that are actionable immediately.

Perfect for leaders, professionals, educators, and athletes seeking to enhance their own performance, The Act of Leadership will also find a place in the libraries of anyone hoping to improve the lives of the people they lead, in business, sport, and life.