Personal and Collaborative Leadership: A Handbook
Improve your leadership, collaboration, and project management skills.
By Éamonn McGuinness, Founder and CEO, BrightWork
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A pragmatic approach to improving personal leadership, situation leadership, and collaborative project management.
Section 1. Personal Change and REP
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” – Robert Browning
Learn how to gradually and intentionally manage your personal and professional development with the REP Approach.
Section 2. Personal Leadership
“The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.”
– John Wooden (1910-2010), UCLA Coach
Become an efficient and effective leader with tips on managing your time, energy, personality, and more.
Section 3. Situational Leadership
Managing meetings, delivering impactful presentations, making effective decisions, and more.
Learn how you can figure the best leadership approach to apply for different situations.
Section 4. Collaborative Project Management
Explore the five stages of collaborative project management – initiate, plan, work, track and replan, and close the project.
Section 5. Going Further
Learn how to run workshops with your team using the ideas in the handbook.
Find sample course outlines, session plans, and emails to facilitate courses on leadership, collaboration skills.
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The entire proceeds of this book (and not just the profits) will go to Jesuit Refugee Society, an organization dedicated to working with refugees and other forcibly displaced people.
Who should read this book?
Aspiring Leaders
Anyone who wants to improve their and leadership skills.
Teams
Teams who want to collaborate easily and successfully.
Organizations
Organizations that want to create happy, healthy, and collaborative working environments.
Why read this book
- Develop personal leadership skills by managing your time, energy, personality, and attitude.
- Improve situational leadership skills in areas such as decision-making and running better meetings.
- Understand and practice the five stages of Collaborative Project Management.
- It is packed with practical tips and exercises.
Meet the Author
Éamonn McGuinness
Éamonn McGuinness is the CEO and founder of BrightWork. From 1995, Éamonn has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft 365, with the same basic product mission (process-driven and people-inspired collaborative project management).
Éamonn also works with two amazing international not-for-profit organizations; one in an executive capacity, and the other in a governance/advisory role. Éamonn also serves on two education boards (national and international). All these wonderful organizations are places of deep everyday learning for Éamonn.
“If you wish to lead a good life, reach your potential, lead a team, lead a family, lead a project or an organization, the most important person to first lead is yourself. If you lead yourself well, you can lead others, and others will be open to your leadership. You will be leading from the inside out.” – Éamonn McGuinness.
“While other authors traffic in vague generalities and arcane theories, Éamonn McGuinness has drawn on his years of in-the-trenches, real-world success in order to offer down-to-earth advice and tips that will be widely relevant, whether one is leading a company or just beginning one’s career.”
Chris Lowney
Author of ‘Heroic Leadership’ and ‘Make Today Matter: 10 Habits for a Better Life (and World)’.
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