Leading with Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, and Inspire Action on Your Most Important Work
- 3h 8m
- Peter Bregman
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2018
The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 18 Minutes unlocks the secrets of highly successful leaders and pinpoints the missing ingredient that makes all the difference
You have the opportunity to lead: to show up with confidence, connected to others, and committed to a purpose in a way that inspires others to follow. Maybe it’s in your workplace, or in your relationships, or simply in your own life. But great leadership—leadership that aligns teams, inspires action, and achieves results—is hard. And what makes it hard isn’t theoretical, it’s practical. It’s not about knowing what to say or do. It’s about whether you’re willing to experience the discomfort, risk, and uncertainty of saying or doing it. In other words, the most critical challenge of leadership is emotional courage. If you are willing to feel everything, you can do anything.
Leading with Emotional Courage, based on the author’s popular blogs for Harvard Business Review, provides practical, real-world advice for building your emotional courage muscle. Each short, easy to read chapter details a distinct step in this emotional “workout,” giving you grounded advice for handling the difficult situations without sacrificing professional ground. By building the courage to say the necessary but difficult things, you become a stronger leader and leave the “should’ves” behind.
Theoretically, leadership is straightforward, but how many people actually lead? The gap between theory and practice is huge. Emotional courage is what bridges that gap. It’s what sets great leaders apart from the rest. It gets results. It cuts through the distractions, the noise, and the politics to solve problems and get things done. This book is packed with actionable steps you can take to start building these skills now.
- Have the courage to speak up when others remain silent
- Be stable and grounded in the face of uncertainty
- Respond productively to opposition without getting distracted
- Weather others’ anger without shutting down or getting defensive
Leading with Emotional Courage coaches you to build your emotional courage, exercise it effectively, and create an environment in which people around you take accountability to get hard things done.
About the Author
For over 30 years, Peter Bregman has worked with CEOs and senior leaders to help them create accountability and inspire collective action on their most important work. He helps leaders to develop their leadership skills, build aligned, collaborative teams, and overcome obstacles to drive results for their organizations.
In this Book
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Be Yourself: The High Cost of Conformity, and How to Avoid it
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Find Your Ground: Stay Steady, Balanced, and Calm
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Stay Curious About Yourself: How to Ask for Feedback that Will Actually Help You
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Access Self-Compassion: The Problem with High Expectations
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Embrace Your Shadow: How to Avoid Becoming the Person you Hate
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It's not All About Achievement: Stop Worrying About How Much you Matter
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Find Clarity: What's Your One Big Theme?
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Become More of Who You Are: You're Already Pretty Amazing
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Stay Focused: You Need to Practice Being Your Future Self
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Be Strategic and Intentional: Five Steps to Investing Your Energy More Wisely
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Don't Lose Yourself in Pursuit of Becoming Yourself: Take Your Life Back
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How will you Measure Success?: Why you should Treat Laughter as a Metric
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The Impact of Trust: The Real Secret of thoroughly Excellent Companies
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Stay Open: How to Really Listen
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Stay Curious about Others: People can't be Summed Up by Personality Tests
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Stay Creative: Are you Trying to Solve the Wrong Problem?
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Be Useful: Hold the Baby
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Make People Feel Good: How not to Lose a Sale
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Everyone is Contagious: How to Use Your Superpower for Good
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Use Fear as a Guide: How to Talk About What You Most Dread
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Lead with the Punchline: How to Start a Hard Conversation
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Skillful Communication in the Heat of the Moment: Outsmart Your Next Angry Outburst
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Own Your Stuff: I Want you to Apologize
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Let Others Know You See Them: 20 Seconds to a Better Bonus
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Play Hard: Nadal is Strong Enough to Cry; Are You?
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Know Where you're Going: Define your Big Arrow
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Focus Where it Matters: Four Areas to Focus Your Attention
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Use Your Focus as a Filter: Use Your First Day Back From Vacation to Energize Your Focus
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You can't Say it Enough: The Mouthwash Principle: For Energized Focus, Rinse and Repeat
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And Sometimes it's Better to Say Less: If You Want People to Listen, Stop Talking
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Gifted, Game, and Generous: Three Qualities all Leaders Need to Cultivate within their Teams
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Engage From the Beginning: The Farm-To-Table Method of Focusing the Energy of Your Team
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Helping Others be Trustworthy: The Secret to Ensuring Follow-Through
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Creating Accountability: Five Building Blocks for a Culture of Accountability
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Bigger than You: Why Leaders should Try to be Overwhelmed
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Improving Performance After a Critical Error (Pace): How to React When Someone Disappoints
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Know What you are Feeling: Develop your Awareness
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Feeling is Physical: Dance with your Monster
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Practice Feeling: Embracing Temptation
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Feel Uncertainty: The Emotional Adventure of Leadership
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Be Willing to Feel the Hard Stuff: Why Leaders Must Feel Pain
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Feel Everything: Allow for Complexity
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Risk is the Key to Leadership: Unlocking Your Success Equation
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Build Your Risk Muscle: The Small Personal Risks that Change Behavior
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Make a Decision: Act Boldly to Get Moving
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Risk Truth: it's Your Job to Tell the Bold Truths
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Try Something Different: The Unexpected Power of Inauthenticity
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The Limitless Possibility of Now: A Question that can Change Your Life
