Leadership Hacks: Clever Shortcuts to Boost Your Impact and Results

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With rapid change and hybrid workplaces becoming the new way of working, leaders are struggling to achieve their outcomes. How do you stay ahead in the face of constantly shifting priorities, competitors, and deadlines? With this fully revised and updated edition of Leadership Hacks, you’ll discover how to cut through the madness and get back to achieving results. Author Scott Stein helps leaders—from CEOs to frontline managers to small business owners—identify ways to make a difference to the people they manage and the tasks they undertake. Here, he details proven hacks at every level: personal, one-on-one, team, hybrid and remote. With his tips, shortcuts and advice, you can rise above the daily deluge and make real progress. This is a book for leaders looking for the life, work, and business hacks that will help you manage and inspire others. Whether you’re feeling burned out or thriving but still looking for better strategies to get things done and stay on top, this book will open your mind to new possibilities. If you’re leading a hybrid workforce, you’ll especially love the hacks for keeping your people productive and reducing costs. identify what distractions slow you down fast-track your productivity to do more in less time streamline delegation so your people perform faster learn the communication and technology shortcuts that get faster results create and lead a hybrid workforce that increases performance. Leadership Hacks shows you how to hack your day, shift your approach and boost your communication so you can lead in a more effective and efficient way, no matter where your team is. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents About the author Acknowledgements Introduction: The leadership dilemma — too much to do in too little time Critical keys to hacking your leadership Part I Personal hacks Chapter 1 Distractions and productivity Internal distractions External distractions Productivity hacks Improving your productivity Chapter 2 Technology and email The five types of technology programs Email Part II One-on-one hacks Chapter 3 Communication The problem with ineffective communication The Tell-Show-Ask strategy Hacking your communication sequence Chapter 4 Delegation Why leaders don’t delegate The delegation model The four delegation levels More delegation hacks Chapter 5 Coaching How coaching differs from delegation Why does coaching work? Reasons for coaching staff Critical coaching components The coaching hack model: keep it REAL When should you coach? Where to coach: face to face or remote? Part III Team hacks Chapter 6 Team meetings Why most meetings are a waste of time Meeting requirements: purpose and agenda Types of meeting Virtual team meetings Chapter 7 Team mobilisation Why leaders fail to mobilise their staff Creating your mobilisation code The five steps of the mobilisation hack model Part IV Hybrid and Remote hacks Chapter 8 Understanding hybrid Five global trends that will accelerate hybrid workforces Hybrid: should we or shouldn’t we? Traditional, all remote or hybrid? Chapter 9 Designing hybrid Selecting your hybrid model Adapting hybrid office design and layout Ensuring remote staff have the right set-up Chapter 10 Hybrid Success Building a culture that supports hybrid People: Setting up staff success How to lead remote staff Final words Join the Leadership Hacks community References Index EULA