Energising Leadership

Nita Cherry

A practical book for anyone wishing to develop and hone their leadership practice - precisely because it frames leadership as a practise that is learned.
Focuses on professional leadership as deliberate, discerning, intentional behaviour, not as an unconscious set of habits or inherent personal traits.
Explores a range of leadership practices that are useful in dealing with common leadership dilemmas.
Includes an entire chapter on virtual leadership.
Incorporates the importance of mindful practice: being aware of the impacts of leadership action on the energy and efforts of others, and on one's own energy and effort.
Focuses on the dilemmas that challenge professional leaders: those that occur regularly in most situations and those that reflect the complexity of contemporary conditions.
Highlights that there is leadership potential in us all, therefore the book is useful for anyone working in an organisation regardless of level or position.

Energising Leadership

Nita Cherry

Description

Energising Leadership is based on a key idea: that professional leadership is a process of deliberately and transparently influencing the human energy that is available to get things done, how that energy is used, and how it is maintained and replenished. It focuses on the practice of leadership, on leadership-in-action: what people actually do to engage the energy of others in roles and contexts in which leadership work is located. It provides a thorough and useful introduction to the concept of leadership practice and provides concrete ideas on what a leader can do to improve their leadership skills on a tactical as well as strategic level.

Energising Leadership

Nita Cherry

1. Energising leadership
2. The energy story and professional practice
3. Connecting the energy story to leadership literature
4. The energy cycle and the contributions of leaders
5. Real time leadership: engaging energies face to face
6. Influencing energies strategically: from a distance, round the clock
7. Dilemmas of leadership: the energy traps
8. Unconscious energies
9. Orchestrating your own energies: Being 'at choice' with your default routines
10. Your energies and your 'value add'
11. Being and becoming a professional leader

Energising Leadership

Nita Cherry

Author Information

Nita Cherry, Professor of Leadership, Swinburne, University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Nita Cherry is Professor of Leadership at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. She has over 35 years' experience as senior executive, management consultant, director, psychologist, educator, and researcher

Energising Leadership

Nita Cherry

Reviews and Awards

"this is a book that is helpful to ministers and their work. It is a fresh take on an often exhausted subject that provides genuine help for those engaged with the difficult task of leadership." - Andrew Groza, Journal of Contemporary Ministry