NEW Leadership Book | 2026
Better Conversations for Better Results
A practical guide to helping leaders turn everyday workplaceconversations into clearer expectations, stronger relationships and better results.
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Three Exciting Books With Six Major Benefits
Whether you’re a tenured or new people-leader, engaged in team professional development, or conducting self-study, the concepts, stories, reflections, best and better practices, and exercises are sure to enhance both your leader competence and confidence.
1. Prepare emerging leaders
Great resource for emerging leaders and succession planning efforts. Discover strengths and blind spots along with real strategies to step up to their next level.
2. Fine-tune “people leadership” competence
Work through exercises to reflect on contemporary leader competencies, your strengths, mindset, beliefs, presence, and emotional management to better deploy talents, release antiquated habits and help you and your team thrive.
3. Accelerate transition to new role
Use the book, especially the “Your Launch into Leadership“ chapter to prepare for success, avoid common missteps and thrive early within a new organizational culture and with your new direct reports.
4. Support talent management initiatives
This is an excellent book for to use as required reading for all manager and leader development initiatives. It prompts many individual ahas, which saves time ”telling” in trainings. Convert the content into learning modules or for learning communities.
5. Build synergies for any work group/team
Chapters are devoted to team members building both awareness and heightened skills individually, to then engage these assets effectively and synergistically with the collective team to maximize performance and satisfaction.
6. Direct reports can use it too
Having direct reports read the book broadens their knowledge of and appreciation for the leader experience. And, importantly, it builds skills and approaches to “manage up.”