For too long, the world has adopted a masculine approach to leadership – leadership that is heavy on logic, mathematics and results. Kerry Swan’s Heartfelt Leadership model challenges this approach and proposes that if you want to lead people and projects to success, you need to reorient your leadership to a more balanced perspective. Developed from twenty years’ experience as a business coach and consultant, in Heartfelt Leadership, Kerry outlines her model that has helped hundreds of leaders, to solve their day-to-day management pain. Heartfelt Leadership is about two things: fixing work, people and team problems, and then understanding the deeper reasons why you have the issues in the first place. With a more balanced and courageous approach, this book will help you get more done with less stress regarding your people and projects. It will also support you in creating real change with less hassle from your team. Throughout the book, Kerry shares a range of practical stories about leading change and growing teams. These stories are supported with practical activities that illustrate how you can lead others and lead them the way they want to be led. Adopting the approach in this book will set you and your team up for high levels of accountability and teach you the importance of difficult conversations. You will understand the language of heartfelt leaders and focus on the brevity of life to make sure that your legacy lives on. Heartfelt Leadership is a roadmap, a way forward, and it offers simple straightforward advice to leaders in the trenches.
