This accessible highly interactive book presents a transformative approach to communication in
leadership to meet workplace challenges at both local and global levels. Informed by
neuroscience psychology as well as leadership science it explains how integrating and
properly balancing two key focal points of management-the tasks at hand and the concerns of
others and self-can facilitate decision-making partnering with diverse colleagues and
handling of crises and conflicts. Case examples a self-test friendly calls for reflection
and practical exercises provide readers with varied opportunities to assess support and evoke
their readiness to apply these real-world concepts to their own style and preferences. Together
these chapters demonstrate the best outcomes of collaborative communication: greater
effectiveness deeper empathy with improved emotional fulfillment and lasting positive change.
Included in the coverage: · As a manager can I be human? Using the two-agenda approach for
more effective-and humane-management. · Being and becoming a person-centered leader and manager
in a crisis environment. · Methods for transforming communication: dialogue. · Open Case: A new
setting for problem-solving in teams. · Integrating the two agendas in agile management.· Tasks
and people: what neuroscience reveals about managing both more effectively. · Transforming
communication in multicultural contexts for better understanding across cultures. As a
skill-building resource Transforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork offers
particular value:· to diverse business professionals including managers leaders and team
members seeking to become more effective · business consultants and coaches working with people
in executive positions and or teams · leaders and members of multi-national teams · executives
decision makers and organizational developers · instructors and students of courses on
effective communication social and professional skills human resources communication and
digital media leadership teamwork and related subjects.
