The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation

The Respectful Leader presents an engaging, thought-provoking lesson for companies seeking off-the-charts performance. Author Gregg Ward draws on 25 years of leadership consulting, coaching and training experience to reveal the secret to great results: respect. In this true-to-life business fable, he shares the story of Des Hogan, a CEO who discovers that disrespectful behavior on the part of his leadership team is eating away at his company's morale, productivity, and profits. At a loss for a solution, he meets Grace--a straight-shooting, self-described "little old lady" in the maintenance department. With her no-nonsense advice, he sets out to revamp the culture and turn his company around; but first, he has to turn inward and realize that his own behavior sets the tone for the company at every level. This enlightening, engaging and honest story will help you recognize and analyze your own behaviors and interactions, and show you how to create a winning culture based on leading with respect.

Intimidation, micro-management and insecurity do not drive top-level performance. True success is built on free-flowing, trusted, and open collaboration between departments, levels, and specialties. This book shows you how to build respect among the ranks--from the top down.

• Learn the key respectful leadership behaviors that significantly impact morale
• Learn how to adjust your own, and others', attitudes to boost productivity, teamwork, and profits
• Benefit personally and professionally by leading from a place of mutual respect and consideration

People perform best when they feel valued and valuable. And, when they are respected for their experience, talents and skills, they'll become personally invested in outcomes--both short- and long-term--and consistently go the extra mile. Respectful leadership ignites passion, innovation, creativity, and efficiency, while control-based leadership and intimidation breeds complacency and mediocrity. Which environment would better serve your company? The Respectful Leader shows you how to achieve sustainable success with a simple behavioral paradigm shift.

Gregg Ward is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Respectful Leadership and a best-selling, award-winning author, speaker, facilitator, and executive coach. He is on a mission to transform lives and organizations through respect and Respectful Leadership(TM). Gregg's second book, The Respectful Leader(John Wiley & Sons, 2016) was named a "Best Book of the Month" by Amazon and instantly became a best-seller in its category. In 2018, the book won the Gold Medal in the prestigious Axiom Business Book Awards competition. Having trained and worked as a professional in theater, television and film in New York and the UK, Gregg began his career in learning and development as aspecialist trainer for The NYPD using the techniques of live theater and improvisation to train police officers. Since then, Gregg has developed and delivered over 2,500 keynote presentations and talks, training programs, seminars, webinars, and workshops in North America, Europe, and the Middle East for groups ranging in size from 12 to 2,000.Gregg's many clients include ADP, AXA, Booz Allen Hamilton, Ericsson, Ford, Harley-Davidson, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, Premier Members Credit Union, Qualcomm, the US Navy, the US Department of Labor, and Warner Bros Studios.A prolific writer whose articles have appeared in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and The San Diego Union Tribune, Gregg also served for five years as a freelance journalist and feature writer on assignment throughout Europe for Scotland on Sunday, The List Magazine, The Times of London, and BBC Radio-Scotland. He is extremely proud to have covered the fall of the Berlin Wall.Gregg holds a BFA from Boston University's College of Fine Arts, is a Board Certified Coach (BCC), a Master Corporate Executive Coach (MCEC), and an Executive Coach with The Center for Creative Leadership. He is certified in The Hogan, DISC, MBTI, FIRO-B, Workplace Big 5 and 360-Leader assessment instruments and received training in mediation from the National Conflict Resolution Center.He lives with his partner Kathleen in San Diego and plays as much tennis as time and his body will allow.

Walter G. Meyer is the author of the award-winning novel, "Rounding Third," as well as seven other published books including "Day is Ending: a doctor's love shattered by Alzheimer's disease" (which has been optioned to be a movie). His play, "GAM3RS" has performed over 300 hundred times to rave reviews all across the country and was being made into a television series by Relativity Media when the company suddenly went bankrupt. Several of his other scripts have been optioned. His latest book, "If You Weren't Here, This Would Not Be Happening," is a memoir of sorts. He has also freelanced for numerous national magazines and many newspapers including the L.A. Times.