Enhancing Your Executive Edge: How to Develop the Skills to Lead and Succeed
- 2h 48m
- Kerry Preston, Kim Zoller
- McGraw-Hill
- 2014
Why do some people get to the top while others—who work just as hard—don’t get past middle management? Two words: Executive Edge.
Your technical skills may get you the job, but your interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence will get you the promotion. In Enhancing Your Executive Edge, Kim Zoller and Kerry Preston provide the specific tools you need to make the jump from middle or upper management to an executive-level position. It’s not about being among the standouts in a company. It’s about being the standout.
Zoller and Preston emphasize the importance of self-awareness in relationships with colleagues, clients, and executives—including first impressions, body language, and strategic communication. Enhancing Your Executive Edge will help you hone the following:
- Self-Management and Social Awareness
- Personal Branding
- Communication and Presence
- Business Protocol
- Motivation, Perseverance, and Excellence
Competence, passion, and hard work open doors. But when you’re going for the very top spot, the competition increases exponentially—so you need to differentiate yourself. This book is designed to help you develop that special quality few people possess.
Set yourself apart and offer value where the competition doesn’t by enhancing your executive edge.
About the Authors
Kim Zoller and Kerry Preston are partners in Image Dynamics, with more than two decades of experience building successful, highly customized coaching training programs for Fortune 500 companies around the world. They work with a broad base of industry leaders to help them get to the top and stay there, with programs that develop exceptional leadership, creative thinking, and a highly effective workforce. Together, they have trained and coached more than 100,000 individuals. Recognized experts in business protocol, branding, leadership development, presentation and communication skills, customer service, and sales training, Kim and Kerry are the authors of You Did What? The Biggest Mistakes Professionals Make and You Said What? The Biggest Communication Mistakes Professionals Make.
In this Book
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Enhancing Your Executive Edge—How to Develop the Skills to Lead and Succeed
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Introduction—Executive Edge
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Self-Awareness and Feedback
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How You Fit into the Landscape of the Company
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Managing Yourself
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Dealing with Personality Stallers—Ours and Others
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Knowing How to Read People
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Building Your SAP—Your Strategic Alliance Plan
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Networking and Business Socializing
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Emotional and Social Intelligence
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Navigating Office Politics
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Navigating Relationships
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Defining Personal Branding
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Communication Stallers and Strategies
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Presence and Presentation Skills
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Protocol
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Meeting Protocol
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Technology Protocol
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Motivation
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Perseverance and Excellence: Interviews with Leaders
