Business Leadership – Made Clear

With Mind Tools’ “How to Lead: Discover the Leader Within You” leadership system, you'll learn the essential, tried-and-tested leadership skills and techniques you need to become a well respected and highly effective leader in business.

You'll see the the mysteries surrounding leadership (for example, the myth that good leaders are born, not trained) fall away as we reveal the clear, simple, up-to-date principles that lie behind good leadership.

And with "How to Lead"'s sharp focus on leadership in the corporate world, you'll learn the skills you need to lead effectively and positively in today's workplace, including the often tricky skills needed to persuade, influence and lead people over whom you sometimes have little direct authority.

(These skills should work well for people in the military, healthcare, nursing, education and public service generally - it's just that our focus and experience lies in the corporate world...)

Among many other things, with "How to Lead: Discover the Leader Within You", you learn how to:

Create a reliable, robust and attractive vision of the future that people will respect and believe in (meaning that they'll enthusiastically follow your lead);
Communicate your vision, and see the benefits as people work to the best of their abilities to complete the projects you initiate successfully;

Grow your self-confidence, becoming a calm and self-confident leader, and one who inspires confidence in others;

Build a reputation for expertise and a track record of achievement that teams members and your peers will come to respect, value and trust;

Make good decisions under pressure, with the confidence that you’ve done the homework needed for these decisions to be right;

Build a strong, flexible and highly effective team, expanding your ability to deliver many times over;

Develop the sureness of touch shown by the best leaders, and learn to build the empathic, mutually trusting relationships needed for maximum team performance;

Enjoy mutually rewarding, co-operative working relationships with team members and peers. And enjoy the happy, energizing atmosphere that comes with this;

Keep people on target and performing well together in a “firm but fair way” that gets the job done while respecting the rights of team members;

Learn to inspire and motivate team members so that they'll "go to the ends of the Earth" to give their very best;

Become a truly inspirational leader, and enjoy the perks that come with this.

As you learn and start using these skills, you'll become the natural choice for advancement and promotion. Your career will take off, and you'll quickly gather the financial and emotional rewards that come with success. You can join the ranks of the high flyers.