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Book Description


Ever felt like you need an inspired action plan on how to step up?
 
Stepping up could be about taking on your first leadership or management role. It could be about changing your career, or leaving employment to start up on your own. It could be about changing the way you run a team already under your management.
 
Whatever your circumstances, you will face the same issues we all do: changing attitudes, changing technology and our fast-moving rollercoaster of a world. Stepping Up will inspire and equip you to understand and respond to that change and develop your ability to lead yourself and others through it.
 
Follow the practical five point framework on how to step up and fulfil your ambitions:
1. Vision – How to reset your rules in a complex and changing landscape
2. Values – Develop your leadership mission by understanding why you want to lead
3. Velocity – Invest in yourself and build the skills  and capabilities of a great leader
4. Votes – Invest in your team and bring together a fantastic team of people to take you on your journey
5. Victories – Deliver brilliant results and ensure you can deliver on your promises
 
Accelerate your skills and potential, and take charge of your leadership career.
 
“This book is so needed. A manual for the leadership generation that want to create their own future.” Kathryn Parsons. Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Decoded.
 
““Leadership can be practised at all levels. Step up or step out of the way.” Thales Teixeira, Professor at Harvard University
 
"Sarah is one of the most inspiring leaders I know, anyone wanting to become one too should read this book." 
Baroness Martha Lane Fox, founder of lastminute.com, Chancellor of The Open University, Board Member of Twitter.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. About the authors
  5. Author’s note
  6. Who this book is for
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. Your Stepping up journey: the five Vs
  10. Step 1 VISION: reset the rules
    1. 1 Embrace a complex and changing environment
    2. 2 Why we need to reset the rules
  11. Step 2 VALUES: make it matter
    1. 3 Understand why you want to lead
    2. 4 Establish a leadership mission
    3. 5 Find your CLAN
  12. Step 3 VELOCITY: invest in yourself
    1. 6 Expand your leadership intelligence
    2. 7 Develop your leadership toolkit
    3. 8 Build your confidence
    4. 9 Cultivate a leadership network
    5. 10 Look after yourself
  13. Step 4 VOTES: invest in your team
    1. 11 Find great people
    2. 12 Motivate your team
    3. 13 Be courageous and kind
    4. 14 Work on your empathy
    5. 15 Create a culture
  14. Step 5 VICTORIES: deliver brilliant results!
    1. 16 Provide clarity
    2. 17 Navigate uncertainty
  15. Appendices
    1. 1 Checklist: the cheat sheet
    2. 2 Assignment: your Stepping up plan
    3. 3 The last word
  16. Index
  17. Endorsements
  18. Imprint
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