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Your First Leadership Job

Congratulations! You’re now in charge. Perhaps it’s your first time as a leader,or maybe you want to fine-tune your skills. Either way, you’ve begun one of themost rewarding chapters of your career. But, like many beginnings, the first fewyears can be challenging. Fortunately, you don’t have to tackle this challengeon your own. Your First Leadership Job gives you practical advice straight from others who have walked in your shoes. Not only does it include dozens oftools to ensure your success, it’s also based on the authors’ and DDI’s extensiveexperience and research, which ultimately have led to the development of millions of leaders around the world. In fact, a quarter-million leaders will bedeveloped this year alone via DDI training.

Your First Leadership Job is divided into two sections. Part 1 introduces the concept of catalyst leader—one who sparks energy, passion, and commitmentin others. Your transition to catalyst leader is a major step in your leadershipjourney. This book provides essential tips to put you on the catalyst path. Ultimately, leadership is about the many conversations—frequent, clear, authentic, and occasionally difficult—that you will have daily. Your First Leadership Job builds awareness of the fundamental skills you’ll come to rely onto make every one of these interactions successful.

Part 2 devotes 13 chapters to critical core leadership competencies, includingcoaching for success, hiring the best employees, turning dreaded appraisals intodiscussions that propel performance, and handling difficult employees. It alsoincludes a chapter for first-time female leaders.

Look at Your First Leadership Job as an indispensable companion to becomingan awesome leader—one who will make a positive, lasting impact on your team,family, and career. Visit www.YourFirstLeadershipJob.com to learn more.

Introduction

BECOMING THE VERY BEST FIRST-TIME LEADER

TACY M. BYHAM, Ph.D., is theCEO of Development Dimen-sions International (DDI). Tacy

has worked with dozens of global organiza-tions, creating custom solutions to improvetheir leaders’ performance. She believes thatbetter leadership is not only about the work-place, but also about better communities and,ultimately, a better world.

RICHARD S. WELLINS, Ph.D.,is a global expert in leadershipdevelopment. Your First Leader-

ship Job is Rich’s fifth book on talent manage-ment, including the best-seller, EmpoweredTeams. His research has been featured in Fortune, Business Week, CNBC, NPR, BBC,and Forbes.

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Tell and assume

Direct and prescribe

Identify problems andmandate solutions

Criticize

Have all the answers

Withhold informationand feelings

Threaten, intimidate,paralyze

Focus on people’s limitations

Encourage others’ dependence

Maintain thestatus quo

Do it all alone

Have a self-centered outlook

Take overand control

Ask, listen, and learn

Guide, facilitate, steer

Help others recognizeand solve problem

Provide balanced feedback

Ask for ideas

Share thoughts, feelings,and rationale

Trust, buildcommitment, mobilize

Focus on people’spotential

Fosterinterdependence

Encourage creativityand innovation

Support development of others

Have a team-centeredoutlook

Provide support withoutremoving responsibility

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Your catalyst index: (total of the scores above)

50–65 You already are a catalyst leader, but you can still improve by selecting a few behaviors to work on.

30–49 You have a good start. Choose three areas you really want to work at.

13–34 As a newer leader, you have multiple opportunities for improvement.

Catalyst Leader Self-AssessmentCatalyst leaders find opportunities to ignite action in others. Are you a catalystleader? To find out, first circle the number for each item that represents yourcurrent behavior. Next, add the numbers to determine your catalyst index.Finally, in the column to the right, check (✓) the three boxes opposite thebehaviors you want to focus on.

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