Leading from Your Best Self: Develop Executive Poise, Presence, and Influence to Maximize Your Potential - Hardcover

Salafia, Rob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 126013217X ISBN 13: 9781260132175

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2018

Synopsis

Proven techniques for building self-confidence, making personal connections, and developing a professional presence that’s powerful, authentic, and effective.

Increase your poise, presence, and influence for more dynamic leadership

Are you showing up as the best version of yourself? Are you aware of how others experience you? By cultivating executive poise and presence, we not only improve how others see us but enhance our capacity to lead a life of our choosing. While leadership styles may vary, all great leaders are able to connect with others while staying true to themselves. By remaining true to the best aspects of your personality, you too, will be able to lead effectively in every situation.

Leading from Your Best Self delivers a roadmap for developing the poise, presence, and influence needed to succeed at work and in life. As a theater professional, Rob Salafia cultivated a mindset of excellence and learned how to truly connect with his audiences by tapping into and developing his own intrinsic gifts as a performer. He realized that these skills could be put to great use in the business world where it is just as important to build authentic connections with key stakeholders―in this case, employees, bosses, and customers. Now, he shares his insights with you, making this book the next best thing to having your own personal executive coach.

Through specific techniques, activities, and personal stories, Salafia illustrates how to tap into your own inner resources and experiences, show up with greater self-confidence, and make the shift to more inclusive modes of leading. He shares exercises and narratives from real-life clients who have struggled and succeeded to break past their self-imposed limitations.

Leading from Your Best Self shows you how to:

•Be present and open

•Discover your Signature Stance

•Maintain poise under the most stressful of situations

•Create a solid foundation of self-confidence and your own genuine leadership style

•Develop a System for Learning, a Platform for Failure, and a Mindset of Excellence

•Connect authentically with others and build lasting relationships based on trust

•Use storytelling and metaphor to make your messages meaningful and memorable

•Understand the sources of influence and power within organizations

•Create a culture of learning within your own team and organization

Everyone has the capacity to be extraordinary by appreciating and nurturing their best qualities and gifts. This book will help you uncover yours and reach your true potential as a leader and communicator.

About this title

About the Author

Rob Salafia is a speaker, executive coach, and workshop facilitator with over two decades of experience as a top leadership development executive. He lectures at MIT Sloan School of Management and is a member of the coaching cadres for MIT’s Sloan Fellows, AMP and EMBA Programs. He also has a lasting partnership with Harvard Business School and has worked with many Fortune 500 companies. 

From the Back Cover

“A masterful contribution to the landscape of leadership development, as well as a practical, hands-on manual for personal and professional growth.”

— Marshall Goldsmith, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Triggers.

"Leading From Your Best Self is an incredible playbook for developing executive presence and influence. His great lessons will immediately make you a more effective leader."

— Kevin Kruse, CEO, LEADx.Org

“Leading From Your Best Self is a customized development plan for becoming the best version of you as a leader.”

— Paul Smith, author of the bestselling books Lead with a Story and Sell with a Story

“In his new book, Rob will show you how to discover, appreciate, and take your Best Self with you. He reveals the secrets to building a powerful executive presence by tapping into your natural strengths and gifts.”

— Anne Molignano, SVP, Head of Human Resources NA, Sony Music Entertainment

"Leaders at all levels can benefit from these clear and straightforward tips for enhancing your impact, starting from the core of who you are as a person."

— Julie Staudenmier, Vice President, Talent Management and Development Pfizer, Inc.

“Any rising leader who works with Rob is in great hands, and now this book gives you Rob’s wisdom and coaching, and your full potential, at your fingertips.”

— Joshua Margolis, James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

“Rob draws on his unique background in the performing arts, while sharing many powerful lessons from his own personal leadership journey, to captivate and entertain the reader from start to finish.”

— Todd Cherches, CEO of BigBlueGumball, Adjunct Professor of leadership at New York University, and Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 126013217X
• ISBN 13: 9781260132175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240