From Doing to Leading: Your Guide for Inspiring People on the Frontlines

By Amy D. Bradshaw, John M. Stuef, Amy Bradshaw

Are you making the jump from doing to leading?? John Stuef has been there, he was a successful doer who made the transition to leading. The thing about leadership is that it forces you to grow personally and to appreciate that inspiring people to do a job well requires a whole different skill set than doing that job yourself. In "From Doing To Leading," authors John Stuef and Amy Bradshaw show us the pitfalls of "traditional" leadership techniques, from the dictates of tough love, to keeping employees on a tight leash, to micro-managing all operations; these methods are flawed and counter-productive to a team. Leadership on the front-lines, in blue collar jobs, is no different than any other type of workplace because all people are driven by the same brain chemistry - it's the basis of human nature. To understand people, we need to turn to the science of how the brain works. Understanding human behavior is the key to understanding how to lead. Good leaders dare to trust their employees. They harness the power of the neurochemical dopamine to inspire accomplishable goals and to motivate their team. They rewire a workplace into a true team environment, utilizing the bonding power of oxytocin. And they work hard against a team fueled by the release of cortisol, the debilitating "fight or flight" stress hormone that many frontline workers are drowning under without even realizing it. This is a book for the doers, body shop technicians, service advisors, front-line makers, manufacturers, and craftsmen who have arrived at that next stage of their career life: leadership. After reading "From Doing To leading," you'll know exactly what to do and not to do as you transition from being a doer to being a leader. Stuef and Bradshaw's winning combination of pragmatic advice, shared experience, and smart explorations of the brain science around motivation will set you on a straight path to winning leadership.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 179442248X
• ISBN13: 9781794422483
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.0"