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by Kevin Eikenberry (Author), Guy Harris (Author)
Practical advice for making the shift to your first leadership position
The number of people who will become first-time supervisors will likely grow in the next 10 years, as Baby Boomers retire. Perhaps the most challenging leadership experience anyone will face isn't one at the top, but their first promotion to leadership. They must deal with the change and uncertainty that comes with a new job, requiring new skills, and they've been promoted from peer to leader. While the book addresses the needs of any manager, supervisor, or leader, it pulls from the best leadership and management thinking, and puts the focus on the difficulties that new leaders experience.
- Includes practical information for new managers who must supervise friends and former peers
- Authors are expert consultants who work with leaders at all levels
- Shows how to adopt the mindset of a leader, including: communicating change, giving feedback, coaching employees, leading productive teams, and achieving goals
This much-needed book can help new leaders get beyond the stress and fear to focus on becoming the most effective leader they can be-starting right now.
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THE MOST CHALLENGING LEADERSHIP experience anyone will face isn't the one at the top but the first promotion to a leadership position. It can be overwhelming to deal with the change and uncertainty that come with a new job, requiring new skills, and the promotion from peer to leader.
If you (or someone you work with) have been promoted to a position of leadership for the first time, From Bud to Boss is an important book that offers insight from the best leadership and management thinking, and puts the focus on the challenges faced by novice leaders. In down-to-earth terms, the authors show how to adopt the mind-set of a leader and develop the skills needed to communicate change, give feedback, coach employees, lead productive teams, and achieve goals.
From Bud to Boss is filled with practical ideas and helpful advice, and offers a clear road map to leadership success. The authors suggest that you begin your new position by forming a partnership with your boss. Ask for his or her guidance on how to best handle your new position. And have your boss give you a clear under-standing of your new role and her expectations of you as a leader...get it in writing! Do the same for your new reports. Talk about your expectations of them, ask for their expectations of you, and request their help and their patience.
This much-needed book can help you get beyond the stress and fear of leading employees for the first time and put your energy into becoming the most effective leader you can be... starting right now.
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PRAISE FOR FROM BUD TO BOSS
"Making the transition from peer to leader can be a very perilous journey, but it just got a whole lot easier now that Kevin Eikenberry and Guy Harris have written From Bud to Boss. It's an engaging read, full of immensely practical advice and compelling real-life examples. You must take this book along with you as you start your new adventure into leadership."
--JIM KOUZES, award-winning coauthor of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge and The Truth About Leadership; Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
"I wish someone had given me this book fifteen years ago. That was the very first thought I had while reading this book: I really could have used this. Fortunately, I still can. It was amazing to read about the situations described here, as I recalled similar situations, one after another. Everything Kevin and Guy write about seems to have occurred in my past, either to me or my colleagues. This book is real."
--HARRI JARVELIN, human resource director, Neste Oil
"In From Bud to Boss, Kevin Eikenberry and Guy Harris provide a remarkably lucid guide to becoming a leader and building a team. In addition to sage advice, they offer lots of practical suggestions for being the very best leader you can become."
--BILL GEORGE, Harvard Business School professor, former Medtronic CEO, best-selling leadership author
"From Bud to Boss is an engaging, enlightening, refreshing read on leader-ship. It's like having a good conversation with a wise friend who cares about helping you become the best you can be. Thanks Kevin and Guy--I will definitely recommend this book."
--JANICE BEER, vice president, People Potential, Canada
Author Biography
KEVIN EIKENBERRY is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company that provides a wide range of training and delivery services, and is the co-developer of the Bud to Boss(TM) Workshop. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, smaller firms, and universities, as well as with a variety of government agencies.
GUY HARRIS is the owner of Principle Driven Consulting, and is a master trainer and coach with The Kevin Eikenberry Group and the co-developer of the Bud to Boss(TM) Workshop. Previously, he was a nuclear engineering officer in the U.S. Navy, a manager in the chemical industry, and an entrepreneur.
