Practical Leadership: A Guide to Building Trust, Getting Results, and Changing Lives

"Janet Ply is the real deal. If you lead people - or want to - Practical Leadership should live on your desk." ~ Mel Robbins

Most leaders don't struggle because they lack talent. They struggle because no one ever gave them a playbook for leading.

You were promoted because you delivered results.

Now you're expected to build trust, delegate effectively, coach employees, navigate difficult conversations, and achieve results through other people—often with little or no leadership training.

You don't have to figure it out through years of trial and error.

Practical Leadership gives you the playbook most leaders never receive.

Inside you'll discover how to:

• Build trust while raising accountability.

• Delegate without losing control.

• Handle difficult conversations with confidence.

• Develop people who take ownership.

• Communicate with clarity.

• Focus on the work only a leader can do.

Written by leadership expert Janet Ply, this Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal winner distills decades of real-world leadership experience into practical guidance you can apply immediately.

This isn't another book full of leadership theory.

It's the practical leadership playbook you'll return to whenever you're faced with a leadership challenge.

Stop figuring leadership out the hard way.

Start leading with greater clarity, confidence, and impact today.

Janet Ply, PhD, is a leadership consultant with more than twenty-five years of experience working with companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 50.In her work with organizations such as Northrop Grumman, Tyson Foods, Fidelity Systems Company, and AT&T Solutions, she has served as an adviser to dozens of C-suite executives, spearheaded recovery of large ($600 million-plus) initiatives, led strategic planning sessions, streamlined and automated business processes, developed program management offices, and facilitated hands-on leadership and project management workshops.Rather than approaching leadership development from organizational development or human resources perspectives, she approaches it from life in the trenches, where she experienced leadership (or lack thereof) and the consequences firsthand.She holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics, master's degrees in engineering and procurement and acquisition, and a PhD in information technology and is certified through the John Maxwell Group as a DiSC consultant, speaker, trainer, and coach.