First-Time Leader : Foundational Tools for Inspiring and Enabling Your New Team

First-time leaders get motivational and planning tools from top executive coaching firmsThe First-Time Leader provides basic frameworks, processes, and tools to help first-time leaders and their teams deliver better results faster. Leading is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together, to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. Authors George Bradt, Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, and Gillian Davis, Leadership Coach, show how to achieve these results through the BRAVE acronym: Behaviors, Relationships, Attitudes, Values, Environment. Learn the three stages of team development, and get advice for specific leadership situations including onboarding yourself, onboarding others, and crisis management.

• Offers a way of thinking about leadership and a structure for action to help first-time leaders lead at both overall conceptual and tactical levels
• Includes downloadable tools that are easily adaptable for each leader's specific context
• Contains illustrative examples and stories from a range of experienced leaders and experts to help guide first-time leaders through things they may not have experienced themselves

The First-Time Leader shows new leaders what to do next, later, never, why, and how. It's an indispensible guide for stepping up and inspiring others to come together for success.

GEORGE BRADT has a unique perspective on transformational leadership based on his experience as an executive, consultant, and writer. After two decades in sales, marketing and general management around the world, now he is a Principal of CEO Connection, Managing Director of the executive onboarding group PrimeGenesis, author of a weekly column on Forbes.com and of five books on onboarding including The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan. George can be reached at gbradt@primegenesis.com.

GILLIAN DAVIS has a new generation’s view on leadership through her work in marketing, recruiting and coaching. After witnessing and experiencing dissatisfied employees leaving their jobs, not because of the role, but because of poor managers, she is now on a mission to help first-time leaders inspire and enable their teams. Gillian can be reached at @gilliandavis07 or Gillian@firsttimeleader.tv