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The Busy Leader's Handbook - by Quint Studer (Hardcover)

The Busy Leader's Handbook - by  Quint Studer (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"After spending the last 30 years helping organizations and leaders reach peak performance, Quint Studer has pulled together his best practices, tools, tips and tactics for engaging employees, revitalizing cultures, and creating high performance companies. All his tactics and tools are easy to understand and implement. It will be comprehensive and will cover things like change management, leadership, communication styles, employee training and engagement, team building, as well as manager must haves like how to attract and retain talent, how to run a meeting, how to deal with low performers, how to have difficult conversations, and much more. This book will function almost as a desk reference/pocket guide. All chapters are written as "standalones." Busy managers/leaders can look at the Table of Contents, find a challenge they're facing, and instantly access "how to" advice they can put into practice right away"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A comprehensive book of "need-to-know" insights for busy leaders</b></p> <p>Being a great leader means getting the fundamentals right. It also means consistently doing the "little things" that make a positive difference in the lives of employees, customers, and other stakeholders. <i>The Busy Leader's Handbook: How to Lead People and Places That Thrive </i>is a practical, easy-to-use book filled with gentle reminders of what we should be doing every day--especially when work is at its most intense.</p> <p>The <i>Handbook</i> is packed with proven best practices, tools, tips, and tactics for engaging employees, revitalizing cultures, delighting customers, and building high-performance companies. Short, succinct, and accessible, each chapter is "stand-alone," offering helpful advice for meeting common business challenges. Plus, the strategies, approaches, and tactics are designed to be put into action immediately.</p> <p>Best-selling author, businessman, visionary, and entrepreneur Quint Studer draws on his 30-plus years of experience in helping organizations of all sizes and leaders at every level reach peak performance. Comprehensive in scope, his book overflows with insights and practical advice to help you make smart leadership decisions. For example: </p> <ul> <li>Why putting the right foundational structures in place early on creates clarity and heads off problems that cause businesses to struggle and fail</li> <li>The importance of followership: why being a good leader requires that you first be a good follower</li> <li>Why we tend to run from self-disruption and a sense of being unsettled (and how to learn to embrace them instead)</li> <li>Why leaders should seek consent, not consensus</li> <li>How to engage employees and create a positive workplace culture</li> <li>How to help employees find meaning and purpose in their work</li> <li>How to conduct difficult conversations and resolve conflicts--and why having these skills (or not) can make or break you as a leader</li> <li>Advice for attracting and hiring the best talent, retaining them over time, and dealing with the low performers who drive them away</li> <li>Why mentoring is so powerful and how to encourage it inside your company</li> <li>Tips and tactics for seeing the world through your customer's eyes</li> <li>How to reduce customer anxiety (and encourage them to buy) with the right words at the right times for the right reasons</li> </ul> <p><i>The Busy Leader's Handbook</i> functions as a desk reference and pocket guide for anyone in a leadership position. It's also a great training tool for onboarding new leaders. Whether you work for a start-up, a small or mid-size business, or a large corporation, this book will change how you think, inspire you to do your job better--and help your organization thrive.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><b>A Concise, Easy-to-Use Guide on the Basics of Good Leadership</b> <p>No matter if you are new to your role as leader, or have years of experience, <i>The Busy Leader's Handbook</i> offers a quick and easy resource filled with the "how-to" strategies that can be put into action right away. The book's tactics are designed for hardworking leaders who are short on time and are searching for a guide for getting the fundamentals right and doing the little things that can make a big difference to overall performance. Each chapter in the <i>Handbook</i> is filled with stand-alone best practices, tools, tips, and tactics for involving employees, revitalizing cultures, delighting customers, and building high-performance companies. <p>Written by entrepreneur, visionary, and <i>Wall Street Journal</i> best-selling author Quint Studer, the <i>Handbook</i> draws on his 30-plus years of experience in helping organizations of all sizes and leaders at every level reach peak performance. The book contains the approaches that have proven to get results time and time again. Studer explores the key leadership skills and behaviors that stellar leaders tend to possess. Developing and refining these skills gives any leader the ability to be the best they can be. The author also shows what it takes for leaders to optimize employee performance. Savvy leaders create environments in which people can grow, thrive, and find a powerful sense of meaning. Leaders that develop a positive, engaging, and productive workplace culture give their individual employees and team members the opportunity to shine as never before. <p><i>The Busy Leader's Handbook</i> offers time-tested advice for creating the structure, processes, and groundwork needed to build a successful organization. Share the book's ideas and strategies with your organization's managers and other leaders. Once the leaders and managers within your company embrace the tactics outlined in the <i>Handbook</i>, you will be giving your company the boost it needs to thrive today and in the future.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>QUINT STUDER</b> is a lifelong businessman, entrepreneur, and student of leadership. He not only teaches it, he has done it. He has worked with individuals at all levels and across a variety of industries to help them become better leaders and create high-performing organizations. He seeks always to simplify high-impact leader behaviors and tactics for others. <p>Quint has a great love for teaching his insights in books and has authored eight of them in addition to <i>The Busy Leader's Handbook</i>. His book <i>Results That Last</i> reached number seven on the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> bestseller list. He currently serves as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of West Florida.

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