Do Sweat the Small Stuff: Harness the power of micro-interactions to transform your leadership - Hardcover

Langslow, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788605918 ISBN 13: 9781788605915

Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

**Shortlisted for the The Leadership Book of the Year Award 2024**

You may think it’s small stuff, but it has a big impact.

Great leadership is about people: connecting with them and inspiring them to perform at their best. But leaders under pressure tend to focus on tasks, to-do lists and deadlines.

The result? Teams are disengaged, performance and productivity are below expectations, morale is low.

Building relationships isn’t a one-off task. It happens through every single interaction, and we aren’t paying those everyday moments nearly enough attention.

Do Sweat the Small Stuff challenges you to notice and own the profound impact of your micro-interactions. To explore how your speaking and listening, your habits and your behaviours affect those around you, whether you realize or not. Finally, it reveals how to reinvent those interactions to reshape how you show up as a leader and build trusting, productive relationships with your people.

Sarah Langslow distils more than two decades of hands-on experience building effective leadership skills and behaviours in the corporate and sporting world and as an executive coach into an actionable plan for sustainable transformation.

About this title

About the Author

Sarah Langslow is an executive coach, leadership development specialist and writer on what it takes to lead powerfully and with humanity. She integrates leadership lessons from a sporting career as a rower, including competing twice in the Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race, a 15-year corporate career across management consulting and finance, and experience as an entrepreneur with her own coaching and leadership development business.

With more than two decades of hands-on experience building leadership skills and behaviours, and over 3,000 hours coaching experience, she is a sought-after coach and trusted adviser for senior leaders. Known for her truth-telling and ability to offer challenge with a lightness of touch, Sarah helps her clients to develop as successful leaders with high-performing teams.

She is a respected speaker on topics including effective communication, trust and relationship building, and has spoken internationally. An active writer, she regularly shares her experience, insights, and humour with her online communities and in her newsletter.

Sarah has an MA and an MBA from the University of Cambridge and is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as a Professional Certified Coach. When not coaching, you'll find Sarah on the river umpiring rowing regattas, or lifting heavy weights with friends at her local gym. She lives in London, UK, with her mischievous cat Matilda.

To find out more, visit www.sarahlangslow.com

From the Back Cover

You may think it’s small stuff, but it has a big impact.

Great leadership is about people: connecting with them and inspiring them to perform at their best. But leaders under pressure tend to focus on tasks, to-do lists and deadlines.

The result? Teams are disengaged, performance and productivity are below expectations, morale is low.

Building relationships isn’t a one-off task. It happens through every single interaction, and we aren’t paying those everyday moments nearly enough attention.

Do Sweat the Small Stuff challenges you to notice and own the profound impact of your micro-interactions. To explore how your speaking and listening, your habits and your behaviours affect those around you, whether you realize or not. Finally, it reveals how to reinvent those interactions to reshape how you show up as a leader and build trusting, productive relationships with your people.

Sarah Langslow distils more than two decades of hands-on experience building effective leadership skills and behaviours in the corporate and sporting world and as an executive coach into an actionable plan for sustainable transformation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788605918
• ISBN 13: 9781788605915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264