Preface xiii
About Me xv
About the Book xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Chapter 1 You and Your Inner Leader 1
Part One of the Book 2
Part Two of the Book 3
Part Three of the Book 4
How to Read This Book 5
Change Model: Unleashing Your Inner Leader 6
About You 7
You and Your Inner Leader Chapter Summary 8
Part One Know Yourself…Authentically 11
Chapter 2 Strengths: Who Are You? 13
What Is a Strength? 14
Using and Leveraging Your Strengths 16
Strengths Exercise 1: Discover Your Strengths 18
Strengths Exercise 2: Building Your Strengths Statements 22
Strengths Exercise 3: Communicating Your Strengths Statements 25
When Strength Becomes a Weakness 26
Strengths Chapter Summary 29
Chapter 3 Values: What Do You Stand For? 31
What Is a Value? 32
Values Drive Decisions and Behaviors 34
When Values Are Misaligned 36
Values Exercise 1: Discover Your Values 39
Values Exercise 2: Align Your Values and Behavior 40
Values Chapter Summary 42
Chapter 4 Impact: What Do You Do? 43
Get Your Results Noticed 44
Impact Exercise 1: Build Your CAR Stories—Challenge, Action, Result 45
What Is Your Career Currency? 51
Impact Exercise 2: Use CAR Stories as a Record of Career Currency 52
CAR Stories for Career Leadership and Success 53
Impact Chapter Summary 60
Chapter 5 Personal Brand: How Do Others See You? 61
What Is a Personal Brand? 62
Personal Branding Is about How Others Perceive You 66
Are You on the Career Ledge? 68
Five Steps toward Personal Branding 71
Personal Brand Exercise 1: Who Are You? 73
Personal Brand Exercise 2: What Do You Do? 73
Personal Brand Exercise 3: What Is Your Unique Promise of Value? 74
Personal Brand Exercise 4: What Are Your Results? 75
Personal Brand Exercise 5: What Are the Benefits of Your Results? 76
Examples: Personal Brand Statements 77
Putting Your Personal Brand to Work 81
Personal Brand Exercise 6: Communicate Your Personal Brand Daily 83
Personal Brand Exercise 7: Communicate Your Personal Brand on Social Media 83
Personal Brand Chapter Summary 84
Part Two Evolve Your Inner Leader 87
Chapter 6 Productivity: How Do You Get Work Done? 89
How Disciplined Are You? 90
The Great DANE 92
Productivity Exercise 1: Eliminate the Bottom 30 Percent of Your Work 100
Productivity Exercise 2: Say No to One Work Task per Day 101
How Good Are You at Saying No? 102
Managing Your Energy for Success 104
Productivity Exercise 3: Build a Recovery Routine to Sustain Results 106
Productivity Exercise 4: Build a Long-Term Recovery Routine to Sustain Results 107
Productivity Chapter Summary 110
Chapter 7 Mentoring: Helping Others and Helping Yourself 113
What Is Mentoring? 114
Steps to Working with a Mentor 114
Mentoring Exercise: Six Steps to Find and Work with a Mentor 115
What Should I Work on with My Mentor? 117
Mentoring Chapter Summary 118
Chapter 8 Personal Language: What Does Your Language Say about You? 119
Do You Talk Too Much (and Say Nothing)? 121
Do You Ask the Right Questions? 122
Personal Language Exercise 1: Make a List of What Questions 124
Is Your Personal Language Sabotaging Your Effectiveness? 130
Personal Language Exercise 2: Change Your Favorite Phrases 131
Three Tips to Effective Personal Communication 132
Personal Language Chapter Summary 135
Chapter 9 Career Evolution: Where Are You Going? 137
What Is Your Next Step? 142
Successful Career Evolution Process Phase 1: Discover Your Story 143
Successful Career Evolution Process Phase 2: Network 147
Career Evolution Exercise 1: Appreciate Those Who’ve Helped You 154
Successful Career Evolution Process Phase 3: Interviewing 157
Career Evolution Exercise 2: Tell Your CAR Stories 158
Successful Career Evolution Chapter Summary 161
Chapter 10 Career Evolution: Building Your Leadership Legacy 163
Building Your Leadership Legacy 165
What Is Your Definition of Success? 165
Success Exercise 1: What Will Success Look Like? 166
Success Exercise 2: Uncover Your Subconscious 169
Find Future Success in Your Past 170
Success Exercise 3: Turn off the Self-Doubt and Turn up the Facts 172
Living Your Leadership Legacy 174
Career Evolution: Building Your Leadership Legacy Chapter Summary 180
Part Three Inspire Your Inner Leader 183
Chapter 11 Guiding Principles 185
Guiding Principles 186
Guiding Principles Chapter Summary 195
Chapter 12 Letting Go of Me to Get to Us 197
Letting Go of Me to Get to Us 198
Letting Go of Me to Get to Us Chapter Summary 203
Chapter 13 Reflecting on the Past to Get to the Future 205
Reflecting on the Past to Get to the Future 205
Reflecting on the Past to Get to the Future Chapter
Summary 211
Chapter 14 When You Become the Inspiration 213
When You Become the Inspiration 213
When You Become the Inspiration Chapter Summary 218
About the Author 221
Index 223
