Bøger af Malcolm Lazenby

Building emotional health levels has always been at the heart of our work together. It was our intent for the Global Leadership Foundation when we established it in 2003: 'raising emotional health levels across the globe'.We have been working with emotional health levels in business environments for nearly twenty years - across the private, public, not-for-profit and community sectors. Throughout, our main focus has been the development of leaders alongside transformational change in organisations. The application of emotional health to leadership was the topic of our first book, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, published in 2013.Both of us also have long experience with the Enneagram as a model that can help individuals to understand their psychological patterns, including the triggers they react to and the underlying drivers of their actions.Our motivation for writing this book is three-fold.First, we wanted to introduce the Enneagram and the role it can play in the context of moving the emotional health levels. While there are have been many books about the Enneagram published globally, we wanted to share what we have learnt about the application of the Enneagram in moving up the emotional health levels. In sharing what we have learnt we combine an understanding of various Enneagram elements through the lens of emotional health levels and thus bring some clarity to areas of practice of the Enneagram not previously published.Second - and in response to the urging of many of our peers of the years - we wanted to share this knowledge with a broader audience. While most of our work has been with leaders, we are often asked to share our knowledge and practical experience of how to move up the emotional health levels with a broader audience.Finally, we wanted to provide a practical set of self-development tools to our audience. Our hope is that any reader of this book, regardless of their prior exposure to this material, will be able to take the information, and in particular the development guides in Part 3, and start down the path of self-improvement.Part 1 of the book introduces the key concepts we use in our work, including our model of the emotional health levels. This provides a platform for what follows. Part 2 is focused on the Enneagram and its relationship to our emotional health levels model, helping you to gain some insight into your primary Enneagram type and your current emotional health level. And Part 3 provides a substantial development guide, in which you can take what you've learnt about yourself from the first two parts and commence your journey towards moving up the emotional health levels.

Great leaders know that great leadership takes more than just skills. And they know that good emotional health is at the heart of it all. 'Leadership' has become a holy grail of the last decade or two. Scores of books and journal articles contain countless 'shopping lists' of essential leadership characteristics. The promise seems to be that all you need to do is learn these skills and you can be a great leader. Yet when we look at outstanding leaders in the real world, we see that there is no single 'ideal' of leadership. There is no 'mould' for leadership. Great leaders just 'are' ... or so it sometimes seems. But of course it is not as simple as that. The Emotionally Healthy Leader challenges current thinking about leadership development and introduces a unique way of achieving this. In the book, Gayle Hardie and Malcolm Lazenby talk at length with three leaders they have worked with and recognise as being exceptional at what they do. The three are quite different, yet there are some powerful aspects of their leadership styles that bind them together. They have what the authors call 'high emotional health'. They achieve what seems to be a paradoxical balancing act: they manage to be both compassionate and caring, as well as decisive and courageous. Emotionally healthy leaders drive positive emotions in their workplace. They display very low levels of ego driven behaviour; it's not about them, it's about others and the organisation. In doing so they have a positive affect on themselves, their organisations and on the wider community. However, building emotional health is not like learning a skill. It's not something that can be achieved through 'thinking' or 'knowing'. It requires presence and self-awareness in one's own experiences; it needs deeper awareness of one's responses and reactions, and the impact they have on others. The Emotionally Healthy Leader explores how this can be done. It provides the reader not with a secret of instant success, but with a practical understanding of what emotional health is and why it matters, along with an easy-to-follow pathway for improving emotional health over time. This book will change how you see, respond to and interact with the world, and the way you engage and work with others, through better understanding of yourself and the impact you have. It will strengthen your value as a leader, simplifying the pathway you create for others through the work you do on yourself.

Building emotional health levels has always been at the heart of our work together. It was our intent for the Global Leadership Foundation when we established it in 2003: 'raising emotional health levels across the globe'.We have been working with emotional health levels in business environments for nearly twenty years - across the private, public, not-for-profit and community sectors. Throughout, our main focus has been the development of leaders alongside transformational change in organisations. The application of emotional health to leadership was the topic of our first book, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, published in 2013.Both of us also have long experience with the Enneagram as a model that can help individuals to understand their psychological patterns, including the triggers they react to and the underlying drivers of their actions.Our motivation for writing this book is three-fold.First, we wanted to introduce the Enneagram and the role it can play in the context of moving the emotional health levels. While there are have been many books about the Enneagram published globally, we wanted to share what we have learnt about the application of the Enneagram in moving up the emotional health levels. In sharing what we have learnt we combine an understanding of various Enneagram elements through the lens of emotional health levels and thus bring some clarity to areas of practice of the Enneagram not previously published.Second - and in response to the urging of many of our peers of the years - we wanted to share this knowledge with a broader audience. While most of our work has been with leaders, we are often asked to share our knowledge and practical experience of how to move up the emotional health levels with a broader audience.Finally, we wanted to provide a practical set of self-development tools to our audience. Our hope is that any reader of this book, regardless of their prior exposure to this material, will be able to take the information, and in particular the development guides in Part 3, and start down the path of self-improvement.Part 1 of the book introduces the key concepts we use in our work, including our model of the emotional health levels. This provides a platform for what follows. Part 2 is focused on the Enneagram and its relationship to our emotional health levels model, helping you to gain some insight into your primary Enneagram type and your current emotional health level. And Part 3 provides a substantial development guide, in which you can take what you've learnt about yourself from the first two parts and commence your journey towards moving up the emotional health levels.