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Be Your Own Leadership Coach

Self-coaching strategies to lead your way
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Be Your Own Leadership Coach by Karen Stein is a practical guide designed to empower professionals to develop their leadership skills independently. The book provides actionable insights and self-coaching strategies, enabling readers to navigate their personal growth and enhance their leadership effectiveness. With a focus on self-reflection and personal empowerment, it offers tools to build confidence and resilience in leadership roles.
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This book may appeal to you if you're looking to enhance your leadership skills with practical, self-guided strategies. Written by Karen Stein, it's ideal for those in business and entrepreneurship seeking to develop their personal and professional growth through actionable insights and tips.

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Built on evidence-based positive psychology, lived leadership experience and over 2000 hours of one-on-one coaching, this is a one-stop shop for leaders to drive their own professional development and lead as their best selves.

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2023 Australian Career Book Awards Finalist

2023 Goody Business Book Awards Winner in Leadership - Mentoring/Coaching

2023 Goody Business Book Awards Finalist in Self-Help - How To

Leadership is challenging. There are many complex problems to work through, decisions to be made and priorities to juggle. And, by the time you are in a leadership role, you're expected to know exactly what to do and how to do it.

This is where having an experienced leadership coach comes in - someone who can help and support you as you evolve as a leader and become more self-aware of your behaviours, emotions and thoughts. Someone who can work with you through the many challenges of leadership.

Yet what happens when you can't access a coach? Who do you turn to?

In Be Your Own Leadership Coach, you'll learn powerful self-coaching strategies so you can support your leadership of you and support yourself as you lead others.

You'll draw on 12 practices and use practical exercises and reflections to:

  • build your self-awareness and lead as you
  • design your goals and support your motivation
  • manage your time and energy
  • consciously communicate and build your listening skills
  • lead with kindness and empower others
  • shape your leadership impact to be positive, motivating and long lasting

Karen Stein is a Professional Certified Executive Coach with over 30 years' experience, including 23 years as a partner at Deloitte. Based on evidence-based positive psychology, lived leadership experience and over 2,000 hours of one-on-one coaching, Be Your Own Leadership Coach is a one-stop shop for leaders to drive their own professional development and lead as their best self - anytime, anywhere.

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Be Your Own Leadership Coach by Karen Stein is highly praised for its comprehensive and practical approach to leadership development. Reviewers appreciate its blend of evidence-based practices, insightful anecdotes, and practical exercises aimed at enhancing both personal and professional spheres. The book is noted for offering a transformative experience, encouraging leaders to adopt 'whole human' leadership by balancing courage with kindness. Critics commend its accessibility, with its warmth and wisdom resonating strongly throughout the content.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922611758

Publisher: Major Street Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 June 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Major Street Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Karen Stein is an experienced Professional Certified Executive Coach and Partner of Deloitte, where she has assisted senior leaders with attaining their professional goals for the past 25 years. With over 2000 one-on-one coaching hours, Karen has a unique perspective on the intersection of coaching psychology (obtained through her Master of Science in Coaching Psychology) and lived leadership experience. Karen appears as a guest speaker on podcasts, presents at keynotes and writes and shares articles with her network to enable those around her to live their best life, be great leaders and ripple their impact to make this world a better place. Karen coaches with consideration of kindness in leadership, wellbeing, best self and leadership impact.

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