Brilliant Leader:
What the Best Leaders Know, Do & Say
By Simon Cooper
Pearson / Prentice Hall
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
December 2008
ISBN: 9780273720591
178 Pages
$32.50 paper original
In today’s competitive world, companies that succeed have managers who can deliver results through high performing teams. These are true leaders.
Brilliant Leader provides a blueprint for current or potential managers aspiring to become successful leaders of people. It will teach you:
• How to recruit and retain the best people
• How to develop individuals and the team as a whole
• How to maximise performance and maintain high levels of motivation
• How to manage demanding workloads and deliver consistent results.
These are all ingredients Brilliant Leader will deliver. Readers will discover the tools and techniques that are required for excellence in team leadership.
Contents
About the Author
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 Leadership Principles
Chapter 2 Recruiting the Best
Chapter 3 Coaching and Development
Chapter 4 Driving Performance
Chapter 5 Managing Workloads and Delegating Effectively
Chapter 6 Developing Team Synergy
Chapter 7 Communicating Like a Leader
Chapter 8 Leading Cross Functional Teams
Chapter 9 Managing Change
Chapter 10 The Big Picture
Contacting the author
Bibliography
Index
Author
Simon Cooper has over 25 years experience of building, developing and leading high performance teams.
His early career was in the finance industry where he primarily built and led several successful sales teams. Following this, Simon moved to the recruitment sector where he built up and ran a series of regional offices, incorporating front line sales teams and back office support teams, before being appointed Managing Director.
When the business was sold some two years later, Simon became an independent consultant specialising in leadership and business skills development. Over the past ten years he has helped to develop thousands of leaders within hundreds of organisations worldwide via seminars, workshops, coaching and experiential events.
Simon is currently CEO of the Experiential Learning Centre.