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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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People need to feel respected and have a sense of self-worth in order to bemotivated, confident, innovative, and committed to their work. When some-one has done a good job, succeeded at a task, or made a contribution, youwant to enhance that person’s self-esteem. Some ways to do that are to:

• Acknowledge good thinking and ideas.

• Recognize accomplishments.

• Express and show confidence.

• Be specific and sincere.

You can use many different methods to enhance self-esteem: verbally in ameeting, through an email, person-to-person, shout-out on social media, oreven a quick, hand-written note. Higher self-esteem has been associatedwith many performance benefits, including:

Job Satisfaction. Higher self-esteem has been associated with high levelsof career and job satisfaction, particularly with working conditions and com-pany policies and administration.

Feelings & Motivations. High self-esteem has been found to be associatedwith low anxiety, feelings of control, emphasis on producing quality work andhaving quality relationships, and actively seeking information at work.

Work Outcomes. In-depth structured interviews indicated that men withhigher self-esteem experienced several positive work outcomes including:

• More innovation at work.

• More work involvement.

• Better coworker relationships.

• More support from supervisors.

• More comfort working autonomously.

TOOL

ENHANCE SELF-ESTEEM

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You did a great jobfilling in for Ricardo.

You got the work outon time, even with that

crunch at the endof the week.

Because you told me about the problem and

worked with me to correct it,we were able to avoid

confusing others. Thanks for speaking up.

DDI Research: Lessons for Leaders from the People Who Matter

All of us, whether leaders or employees, go to work to do a good job. In a survey of 1,300 workers around the world, nearly 40 percent of employees surveyed felt hurt and demotivated by theirboss' actions, and 6 in 10 responded that their boss has damagedtheir self-esteem. It’s little wonder that employees said they’d rathersuffer a bad hangover, do housework, or receive their credit card billthan have a performance discussion with their boss!

Among those who said they worked for their "worst boss ever" at thetime of the study, just 13 percent said they felt motivated to produce;conversely, 98 percent of those working for their best-ever boss feltmotivated to produce. For every two to three people being managedby their best-ever manager, people felt that there would be a produc-tivity gain equal to a whole extra person! Not to mention a decreasein costly turnover.

The top mention of what best leaders do that make them the best?Recognize employees appropriately.

We almost gotoff track on two unrelated

problems during that meeting.When each of you suggestedthat the issues be covered at a

separate meeting, it helpedeveryone refocus.

Taking the initiative to record the group’s

concerns during our meetingtoday helped us stay on track.

I really appreciate your efforts.

Asking severalkey people for their inputreally helped you developa solid contingency plan.Everyone was impressed.

Our success in exceeding our goal is

because of all your efforts to pull together and stay

focused on our target. Great job, everyone.

Thanks!