Table Of ContentIntroduction Section I--Turn Leadership on Its Head Part I: Emotions Are Superpowers Chapter 1: Your Emotions Are Not the Enemy Chapter 2: My Journey to My Own Superpower Part II: The F-Word Chapter 3: Emotions Matter Chapter 4: The Brain and Emotions--It's a Team Effort Part III: Leading with Emotional Intelligence Chapter 5: What Leading with Emotional Intelligence Looks Like Chapter 6: It Starts with You but It Stays with Them Section II--The EI Experience Self-Coaching to Enhanced Emotional Intelligence Model Part IV: Self-Discovery Chapter 7: Step 1: Connect with Yourself Workbook--Step 1: Connect with Yourself Part V: Get Clarity Chapter 8: Step 2: Consult with Others Workbook--Step 2: Consult with Others Chapter 9: Step 3: Clarify Your Focus Workbook--Step 3: Clarify Your Focus Part VI: Ready, Set, Action! Chapter 10: Interlude--Possibilities to Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence Chapter 11: Consider Your Possibilities and Barriers Workbook--Step 4: Consider Your Possibilities and Barriers Chapter 12: Step 5: Craft Your Action Plan Workbook--Step 5: Craft Your Action Plan Chapter 13: Step 6: Confirm Your Commitment and Close Your Conversation Workbook--Step 6: Confirm Your Commitment and Close Your Conversation Conclusion Acknowledgments
SynopsisAxiom Business Book Award 2023 Bronze Co-Medalist, Leadership Category Finalist for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year - Career (Adult Nonfiction) The Emotionally Strong Leader offers those leading our workplaces, organizations, and institutions an opportunity to transform their leadership and their lives by learning to harness the power contained in recognizing and understanding their feelings. For leaders, managing their emotions and leading with a strong mind and a kind heart while using a set of clear, simple, and tested skills and strategies will enable them to connect more authentically and communicate more effectively with their colleagues and teams. This kind of connection and communication creates an environment of trust and belonging that will spur engagement, spike curiosity, and engender fraternity in the workplace. How does one get there? By leading with emotional intelligence. Unfortunately, too many leaders choose another path; one that eschews their emotions and those of their employees as bothersome and unimportant to the task at hand. This limited and damaging viewpoint tends to make people feel as though they are simply task-managing machines and not the terrific and complex individuals full of energy, passion, and unlimited potential that they are. What we need are leaders who understand themselves from the inside out, who know why they do what they do, and who use the information their feelings provide to help them make informed, rational decisions--especially when the stakes are high. We need leaders who express humility, engage in genuine and caring conversations with the people they lead, and who aren't afraid to admit when they make a mistake. We need executives who are both emotional and strong. Author Carolyn Stern's six-step self-coaching model--adapted from emotional intelligence courses she's developed for major universities and corporations across North America--is backed by decades of field experience and top science on emotions and behavior. Stern's model is the tool leaders need to uncover their barriers to growth and change, set personal goals, and tap into their motivation. It will give them the means and drive to manage the hurdles life throws at them, dramatically impacting their performance, results, and happiness. Simply put, The Emotionally Strong Leader will turn the way readers think about leading on its head., EXPERT IN THE FIELD: Carolyn Stern combines an academic foundation (she is a university professor) with practical hands-on experience to provide a to provide an encompassing system for improving ones leadership skill through understanding emotions. She successfully counters the received wisdom that expressing emotions is somehow unprofessional or unproductive. TEACHING: Because of her educational and coaching background she is really able to make the concepts understandable and real. This is a very readable and digestible program that HR managers will find tremendously useful, whether they be in business, academia, or the non-profit world. TESTED: Figure 1 staff took a course with her and can attest to her effectiveness and knowledge from first-had experience. She really knows her stuff and is a great coach. MEDIAGENIC: She does public speaking in addition to her coaching and has a very engaging personality that come across well in interviews -- and it's a good topic for radio or tv spots., Axiom Business Book Award 2023 Bronze Co-Medalist, Leadership Category Bronze award recipient for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year - Career (Adult Nonfiction) The Emotionally Strong Leader offers those leading our workplaces, organizations, and institutions an opportunity to transform their leadership and their lives by learning to harness the power contained in recognizing and understanding their feelings. For leaders, managing their emotions and leading with a strong mind and a kind heart while using a set of clear, simple, and tested skills and strategies will enable them to connect more authentically and communicate more effectively with their colleagues and teams. This kind of connection and communication creates an environment of trust and belonging that will spur engagement, spike curiosity, and engender fraternity in the workplace. How does one get there? By leading with emotional intelligence. Unfortunately, too many leaders choose another path; one that eschews their emotions and those of their employees as bothersome and unimportant to the task at hand. This limited and damaging viewpoint tends to make people feel as though they are simply task-managing machines and not the terrific and complex individuals full of energy, passion, and unlimited potential that they are. What we need are leaders who understand themselves from the inside out, who know why they do what they do, and who use the information their feelings provide to help them make informed, rational decisions - especially when the stakes are high. We need leaders who express humility, engage in genuine and caring conversations with the people they lead, and who aren't afraid to admit when they make a mistake. We need executives who are both emotional and strong. Author Carolyn Stern's six-step self-coaching model - adapted from emotional intelligence courses she's developed for major universities and corporations across North America - is backed by decades of field experience and top science on emotions and behavior. Stern's model is the tool leaders need to uncover their barriers to growth and change, set personal goals, and tap into their motivation. It will give them the means and drive to manage the hurdles life throws at them, dramatically impacting their performance, results, and happiness. Simply put, The Emotionally Strong Leader will turn the way readers think about leading on its head.