Mastering Self Leadership : Empowering

A brief inexpensive paperback on self-management. This text explores methods for achieving personal goals using self-assessment, self-reward, and self-punishment concepts and exercises. This revision includes a new chapter on Self Leadership within Teams. The practical, applied assessment exercises and activities both build and reinforce the skills all managers need to manage themselves and employees.

Preface

vii

About the Authors

xi

The Journey

1

(7)

Leadership

1

(1)

Sources of Leadership

2

(2)

We All Lead Ourselves

4

(1)

Self-Leadership

5

(3)

Mapping the Route

8

(7)

Those External Factors

9

(1)

Those Personal Factors

9

(1)

We Do Choose

10

(5)

Rough Road, Detours, and Roadblocks

15

(24)

World-Altering Strategies

19

(2)

Self-Imposed Strategies

21

(18)

The Case of the Sales Rep Who Neglected to Bring in New Clients

36

(3)

Scenic Views, Sunshine, and the Joys of Traveling

39

(19)

The Natural Rewards

42

(1)

What Makes Activities Naturally Rewarding?

43

(3)

Tapping the Power of Natural Rewards

46

(8)

A Closing Comment

54

(4)

The Case of the External Rewards That Were Just Not Enough

58

(1)

Travel Thinking

58

(11)

Our Psychological Worlds

59

(2)

Is There Power in Positive Thinking?

61

(8)

Travel Thinking Continued ...

69

(12)

Imagined Experience

69

(6)

Opportunity or Obstacle Thinking: An Example

75

(6)

The Case of the Problem Employee That Was All in Her Mind

79

(2)

Team Self-Leadership

81

(10)

Self-Leadership and Teams

82

(1)

Behavioral Aspects of Team Self-Leadership

82

(1)

Mental Aspects of Team Self-Leadership

83

(2)

Team Self-Leadership Still Means Individual Self-Leadership

85

(1)

Balancing the ``Me'' with the ``We''

86

(5)

Reviewing Travel Tales of Previous Journeys

91

(15)

Self-Leadership Applied to Personal Problems

91

(1)

Applications in Athletics

92

(2)

Applications in Work/Organizational Situations

94

(1)

Uniquely Autonomous Jobs

94

(2)

Organizational Management Positions

96

(1)

Nonmanagement Jobs

96

(10)

The Destination of Self-Leadership

106

(11)

Self-Leadership

106

(9)

A Tale of Self-Leadership

108

(7)

The Tale in Perspective

115

(2)

The Journey Completed

117

(12)

Personal Effectiveness

118

(2)

Some Additional Thoughts

120

(9)

The Tale Continued

122

(7)

Epilogue

129

(2)

Index

131

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Mastering Self Leadership : Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence

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