Be A Trusted Leader has all the content of the author's previous book, "Making Managers into Leaders," with additional material for the context of building trust.
It focuses on Five Action Steps for Breakthrough Results, a powerful process for growing your influence and trust while leading change, solving important problems, aligning people and teams, getting project teams back on track, and resolving a myriad of other challenges faced in today's challenging environment. Dozens of examples are presented in detail.
"Be A Trusted Leader" comes from the perspective that anyone, regardless of title, can develop and provide trusted leadership. It suggests that developing one's leadership abilities is critical to optimizing one's success and prosperity in the challenging times we face.
Ed Oakley is co-author of "Enlightened Leadership: Getting to the Heart of Change," a Simon & Schuster book with over 250,000 copies sold.
As a leadership development expert, he has personally developed leaders from over 67 countries. As CEO, he has led Enlightened Leadership Solutions over the last 25 years as they have worked with thousands of companies, including at least 23 of the Fortune 100.