John Blakey – författare

SHORTLISTED: The Leadership Book of the Year Award 2024Inside each leader is a force for good and a force for bad. Which one wins? The one you feed. As more and more organizations become purpose-driven and commit to the triple bottom line of profit, people and planet, leaders need to practise a new set of behaviours to stay motivated, authentic, resilient and master winning behaviours.Force for Good explores the practical challenges facing purpose-driven leaders in a changed leadership landscape. Avoiding abstract and jargon-fuelled hype , John Blakey provides a collection of common-sense techniques and easy to use tools that any busy, performance-focused leader can quickly deploy to build a better, more purposeful organization

SHORTLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 - Commuter''s Read Category (previous edition)The Trusted Executive helps leaders deliver outstanding results, create inspiring relationships and provide a positive contribution through the power of trustworthy leadership. In the shifting world of business, affected by trends involving robotics, AI, data privacy, the #metoo movement, climate crisis, employment rights and income inequality, trust and truthfulness have become the agenda. But how can business leaders and executives build trust in an untrusting world?The Trusted Executive, gives leaders the tools to build trust by focusing on ability, integrity and benevolence. Providing a range of tools, exercises, examples and case studies, the fully updated edition will help readers: - Understand the primary role of trust as a leadership skill - Build trust around themselves as a leader, and develop role modelling behaviours - Lead transformation change within their own organization - Develop strategies to deal with unwanted violations of trust within their business

Challenging Coaching is a real-world, timely and provocative book which provides a wake-up call to move beyond the limitations of traditional coaching. Based on the authors'' extensive experience working at board and management levels, they suggest that for far too long coaching approaches have shied away from adopting a more challenging stance - a stance that can provoke greater performance and unlock deeper potential in business leaders and their teams. The authors detail their unique FACTS coaching model, which provides a practical and pragmatic approach focusing on Feedback, Accountability, Courageous goals, Tension and Systems thinking. The authors explore FACTS coaching in theory and in practice using case studies, example dialogues and practical exercises so that the reader will be able to successfully challenge others using respectful yet direct techniques. This is an original and thought-provoking book that dares the reader to go beyond traditional coaching and face the FACTS.