Marsha Acker

Open yourself to new possibilities. Curiosity is a powerful tool for leaders. It can help you cope with complexity, learn from challenging conversations, build trust, and discover new perspectives. This book provides the expert research and advice you need to break free of your assumptions, strengthen your relationships, and see the world differently. This volume includes the work of:Tomas Chamorro-PremuzicMarsha AckerJohn ColemanManbir KaurHow to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Open yourself to new possibilities. Curiosity is a powerful tool for leaders. It can help you cope with complexity, learn from challenging conversations, build trust, and discover new perspectives. This book provides the expert research and advice you need to break free of your assumptions, strengthen your relationships, and see the world differently. This volume includes the work of:Tomas Chamorro-PremuzicMarsha AckerJohn ColemanManbir KaurHow to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Leadership comes in many different forms and styles, and it can easily feel like the change we're not expecting is the one we get. And when it comes to change, perhaps the only certainty is that it is continuous - the individuals and systems we interact with on a daily basis are constantly changing. In other words, part of the core work of becoming leaders who are prepared and truly able to lead change is to increase our awareness of what's happening - in ourselves, in our teams, in our group dynamics - so that we can be intentional about our choices and can create the impact we intend. What you'll discover in this book is that when it comes to building a model for leading change, the first step is to explore the intersection of three core models: your behavioral model, your model for leadership, and your model for living. Without these three models defined and refined, your capacity for leading change will never reach its full potential. This foundational book in the Leading for Change Workbook Series is designed to launch you on a path of model-building that will catalyze your clarity and your confidence so that you can begin to lead change with skill, courage, and a strong understanding of who you are.

Have you ever felt unsure how to help a team that was spinning in circles? Or wanted to flee a room with a high-conflict group? If you lead teams of any size, chances are you have been a facilitator at some point. But what does it mean to be a facilitator? While sticky notes, dot voting, and gathering people around a whiteboard are all helpful activities, they can only take us so far. The Art & Science of Facilitation is your guide to moving your team further forward using the groundbreaking Five Guiding Principles of the Facilitation Stance. You will learn to lead teams toward effective collaboration by inviting different points of view (even when it creates conflict), remaining unbiased in high-stakes meetings, understanding what the group needs, and navigating difficult interpersonal dynamics. This book is for anyone ready to lead with self-awareness and group insight, and to help their teams work more efficiently and effectively in a truly collaborative environment. "Every voice in an organization matters, and Marsha shows us how to hear each one." - Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, authors of Difficult Conversations and Thanks for the FeedbackMarsha Acker is a professional facilitator, executive, and team coach. The founder and CEO of Team Catapult, she uses systems thinking, structural dynamics, dialogue, and agility to help teams collaborate and align with clarity, purpose, and vision.