Essential Leadership
Leadership Skills to Explode Your Potential, Motivate Others, and Make Everyone Around You Better
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Morin
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By:
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Gavin McGinnis
About this listen
Learn the proven skills and principles of how to become an effective leader and make everyone around you better!
Are you looking to help your organization or group grow? Are you wanting to make a lasting impact and influence people in a positive way? Do you want to see good growth and change among the culture you work or live in?
If you answered yes, then the simple solution is learning one thing: leadership.
But what exactly is leadership? Everyone knows the word but few know how to truly live it.
If you are looking to stand out from the crowd, be different, and build lasting change for your work, neighborhood, church, or community then this book is your first step!
First, you'll learn the essence of what leadership is and the essential traits of a leader.
The second half of the book focuses on how to lead yourself first, grow in your influence, and master the growth cycle to always become a better and more effective leader.
The final chapter will blow you away as you will learn how to actually recreate and duplicate yourself into new leaders that carry on your vision for the future and leave a true legacy you can be proud of!
When you purchase Essential Leadership today you are not only making an investment in yourself, you are making an investment in the people and communities you desire to positively change.
Here is a preview of how you can grow into a leader that makes everyone better:
- The five foundations of personal leadership
- The biggest difference between leadership and coaching and how it will drastically change your mindset
- The three essential characteristics you must develop personally before you can lead anyone
- How to master the growth cycle to create predictable results for you and your followers
- The five steps of leadership that take you from hungry student to leadership factory
- Much, much more!
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