Leveraging Your Leadership Style: Maximize Your Influence by Discovering the Leader Within

Many current writers on leadership suggest that because leaders are born, that position and power are the key factors. Leveraging Your Leadership Style challenges EVERY person to recognize that since leadership is influence, EVERYONE is a leader. Each person who has influence in the lives of others has a leadership opportunity. Self-leadership, family leadership, work-team leadership, and community leadership are all about people learning to tap into and trust their leadership potential and their leadership style! Seizing the leadership opportunities in your life by understanding your own style and the style of others, coupled with commitment to integrity and a clear vision of a preferable future, will facilitate maximum impact in your leadership life. Leadership is a matter of motivating, encouraging and guiding people to a destination together. Leaders take people where they might not dare to go if left to their own devices. In order to accomplish this, leaders utilize a leadership style. Many styles of leadership exist, but what Leveraging Your Leadership Style will do is go a step further into understanding how each person leads based upon their unique, God-given personality or specific temperament. Each person has a leader within, but they must tap into their unique strengths and improve on their weaknesses in order to be the leader God intended them to be.

Lorraine Bossé-Smith has more than twenty years’ experience in Corporate America. She is President of Concept One, Inc., a corporate training and consulting firm, as well as The Total You, a wellness and fitness center. She is a dynamic speaker, inspiring and engaging audiences nationwide. She is the author of Finally FIT, Fit Over 50, Leveraging Your Leadership Style, A Healthier, Happier You, and I Want my Life Back! She lives in Loveland, Colorado.

Dr. John Jackson is the Senior Pastor of Carson Valley Christian Center, which he planted in 1998. In one exciting decade, CVC has grown from its core of eight adults to have a God-sized impact on the suburban and rural areas surrounding Minden, Nevada. John has more than twenty-five years of leadership experience in both the non-profit and profit sectors, and serves as the Executive Director of Thriving Church Ministries (www.thrivingchurches.com). His books include Leveraging Your Leadership Style, Leveraging Your Communication Style, God-Size Your Church, and Pastorpreneur.