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by Connie Dieken (Author)
Become the real deal and you'll become the leader you're meant to be.
If you want to make change in your organization and in your world, and advance your own career, you need to become a person who can effectively influence others to take action. When looking to bring about organizational change of any kind, the main skill required is influence. Nothing will help your cause more than being able to effectively influence others to take action. Become the Real Deal presents a modern and practical approach to leadership that yields unlimited dividends for leaders at all levels. Author Connie Dieken calls these dividends your Return on Influence(R) (ROI).
You'll discover your own Centers of Influence through a series of visual dashboards and learn how to capitalize on these Centers of Influence to become the powerful, purposeful authority you're meant to be.
- Readers will learn how to override personal influence-killing tendencies, such as narcissism, anxiety, long-windedness, silence, social fa ades, and invisibility.
- Connie Diekenis the country's foremost Fortune 500 communication coachan executive coach to the world's top brands, an Emmy award winning former TV news anchor, reporter, and inductee of the Radio/Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
For anyone seeking to be the "real deal," this book uncovers the strengths and skills you need to gain influence and lead your organization to success.
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Perhaps you want to leap to your highest leadership level and elevate the performance of everyone around you. Maybe you want to earn trust and influence others to take action. It could be that you want to interface beautifully with the world. If you have significant goals to achieve, you need to be--and be seen as--the real deal.
Author and executive coach Connie Dieken has spent a decade studying the root causes of why some leaders influence consistently while others are only episodic in their attempts. She gathered answers from more than 3,500 leaders around the globe at her coaching programs--surprising answers that will transform your leadership.
Become the Real Deal pinpoints exactly what it takes to be a genuine leader in our increasingly faux world. Inside, you'll discover the Three Layers of Presence(R)
Inner Presence. A steadiness that doesn't rise or fall in response to people or situations
Verbal Presence. How your words can gain true clout and transform rhetoric into results
Outer Presence. The specific qualities that others must feel in order to follow your lead
If you're seeking to be the "real deal," this book shows you how to center yourself in the Three Layers of Presence. You'll discover the situations that can tilt you off-center and turn you into:
- The Worrier or The Egotist
- The Mouse or The Motor Mouth
- The Ghost or The Pretender
With Dieken's proven expertise, Become the Real Deal will transform the way you experience yourself, upgrade how others experience you, and help you lead your organization to achieve even the loftiest goals.
Author Biography
CONNIE DIEKEN is an executive coach to senior leaders at the world's top brands. Before launching her coaching firm in 2000, Connie was a multiple Emmy(R) Award-winning television journalist who was inducted into the Radio/Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame. She is also the author of the bestseller Talk Less, Say More: 3 Habits to Influence Others and Make Things Happen (Wiley).
Connie invites you to connect with her at www.ConnieDieken.com
