Leadership Resources

BOOKS

I, Carl Welte, believe there are three imperatives for successful leadership. They are: Being a Self-Aware and Skillful Leader;Having a Sound Strategy; and, Building a Culture of Commitment. The three books below are written to provide the leader with valuable insights and practical and proven know-how for gaining greater clarity, confidence, and compentence related to each of these three leadership imperatives.
Carl Welte, Leadership Begins with You: Being a Self-Aware and Skillful Leader, The Ewings Publishing, 2023. To be a truly effective leader one needs to have a firm grip on just who they are and develop the requisite interpersonal competencies. This book helps the leader do both. The first part of the book allows the leader to surface their real self by discovering their natural tendencies, priorities, and preferences. That is, their core and mental models. This section also enables the leader to discover and capitalize on their strengths. The second part of the book helps the leader to begin to master three critical interpersonal competencies. These competencies are to: 1. Be keenly aware of just what is going on. 2. Use effective listening and speaking communication patterns to seek to understand and to be understood. 3. Use natural, modified, and adaptive behavioral styles to align with the current environment, situation, and relationship. The book also provides a comprehensive guide on Self-Coaching. The guide provides specific steps for thinking through and implementing personal development objectives. FIND IT AT: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Ewings Publishing
Carl Welte, Making and Fulfilling Your Dreams as a Leader: A Practical Guide for Formulating and Executing Strategy, New Edition, The Ewings Publishing, 2024. A Strategic Framework provides valuable guidance for formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy on an ongoing basis. The framework provides a practical and proven methodology for the leader and the leadership team to engage in quality thinking and interacting for developing the three dimensions of a sound strategy: Defining Identity (Purpose and Core Values); Setting Direction (Vision, Strategies, and Actions); and Executing (Working the Strategy). FIND IT AT: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Ewings Publishing
Carl Welte, Building Commitment: A Leader’s Guide for Unleashing the Human Potential at Work, Second Edition, The Ewings Publishing, 2022.
The book provides specific guidance for the leader to effectively implement a culture of commitment. It does do by discussing valuable techniques, practices, and tools contained in the author’s four building blocks for building a culture of commitment. These four building blocks are: 1. Selection: Choosing the Right People. 2. Clarity: Developing Shared Expectations. 3. Performance Coaching: Guiding Success. and, 4. Growing Teams: Synergy at Work. The book begins by setting a solid foundation for building a culture of commitment and discussing the four building blocks by: a) making the business case for creating a culture of commitment; and, b) providing a useful overview of what we know about human motivation at work.

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