Create the work experience you want in the less-than-perfect job you already have.
In Leading Yourself, celebrated workplace thought leader Elizabeth Lotardo delivers an engaging guide to owning and elevating your work experience. With tips, watchouts, and funny stories, Leading Yourself will give you the encouragement and tactics to up-level your career, even if you aren't in your dream job. You'll learn to manage your self-talk, find meaning in the mundane, optimize your time at work, and build relationships with the people who matter.
Lotardo, a wildly popular LinkedIn Learning Instructor, shares key behaviors and habits that will transform the way you experience your job and unlock opportunities for career growth. You'll discover:
- Strategies to overcome self-doubt, embrace change, and navigate uncertainty
- Talk tracks for handling difficult bosses, like micromanagers, know-it-alls, and leaders who constantly change their mind
- How to avoid the awkwardness of giving and receiving feedback and what to do when the feedback is wrong
- Tips for preserving your own reputation when other people don't deliver (or if your company majorly messes up)
- Frameworks for evaluating and making your next career move
Leading Yourself puts the power back in your hands. Even if you work for a fallible boss or imperfect organization, you can change the way you experience your job. An indispensable guide to self-leadership for aspiring and current managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, Leading Yourself is the roadmap you've been waiting for.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I Mindset: Managing the Space Between Your Ears 13
1 Finding Purpose in a Normal Job 15
2 You See What You Look For 33
3 Quiet Fear 49
4 Embrace Change and Uncertainty 59
Part II Behavior: Showing Up as Your Best Self (Most of the Time) 73
5 Hit Goals with Momentum 75
6 Don't Look for Energy - Create It 93
7 Know When to Phone It In 109
Part III Working with Other People (Even Annoying Ones) 123
8 Boss Management 125
9 Disagree and Commit 147
10 Feedback Without the Awkwardness 161
11 All Those Other People 179
12 Your Next Play 197
Conclusion 211
Notes 215
Acknowledgments 223
About the Author 225
Index 227
