Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
By Karen Morley, Major Street Publishing, $29.95.
How to get the most out of any team is worth investigating. If leaders would like to double their engagement score, reduce their workload and decrease the level of pressure, then this practical guide is for you.
Dr Morley’s credentials speak volumes. She has a Master of Psychology, an MBA and a PhD in Leadership and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne.
Lead Like A Coach shows you how coaching refocuses on how you engage with your team. This is an essential guide to help leaders adopt key coaching skills to build a high performing team.
Importantly, in today’s technology-driven, fast-paced world, they can lighten their load and lessen the anxiety on themselves. Dr Morley works with executives and human resource leaders to help them fulfill their potential, to make leadership more inclusive and to help grow the coaching capability of their leaders.
It is written for leaders who care about the people they lead, care about their own success; and want to make a positive impact on their stakeholders, their families and their communities.
It is brimming with practical strategies, tools and case studies making it easy for anyone to start to lead like a coach. Dr Morley offers all leaders an opportunity to revisit or refine their coaching skills.
As an expert in coaching, collaboration and connected leadership, her work focuses on the areas of leadership identity, transition and transformation, leadership styles, inclusive leadership, gender equity and unconscious bias.
How you manage your team has a direct impact on engagement and productivity.
Her purpose is to develop organisational capability and the motivation is to work on eliminating barriers to potential.
Dr Morley’s vision is to ensure leaders are energised, amplified and connected so it rallies action, unites effort and creates value.
