As a leader the need for enhanced skills is increasing, the future leader is a collaborative leader and the old style of command and control leadership just doesn't cut it anymore. Current leaders need to be flexible and adaptable and leaders of change.

In this book strategies are provided on how to increase all areas of leadership skill such as communication, conflict management, dealing with remote teams, increasing technological aptitude and more.

A master leader today is someone who engages all of the generations, who can inspire performance through the ability to coach, mentor and grow team members. A master leader also takes full accountability for their teams performance and works to focus on the strengths of the individuals on the team.

The book contains a leadership assessment as well as tools on how to adapt your leadership to the personalities on your team.

It also contains a peek into the future workplace and the style of leadership needed for the future workplace.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD BY DR. RALPH KILMANN 1

INTRODUCTION 5

Part 1: A Technology Driven World 8

CHAPTER 1 8

Leadership Mastery the Integration of Tech Skills and People Skills

CHAPTER 2 12

The Leadership Styles Assessment

CHAPTER 3 20

Leader Know Thyself for Success

Part 2: Lead in a Fast Pace Workplace and Getting Others Up to Speed 24

CHAPTER 4 24

Lead Change in a Fast Pace Workplace

CHAPTER 5 30

Lead Your Teams to Get Things Done Quickly

CHAPTER 6 34

Proactively Lead to Minimize Conflict

Part 3 Lead Techies and Non Techies to High Performance 39

CHAPTER 7 39

Lead Diverse Personalities & Technology Types

CHAPTER 8 49

Lead Generations, X, Y and Zoomers

CHAPTER 9 63

Be the Leader They Stay For

Part 4: Leadership Mastery To Lead Change Across the Digital Divide 70

CHAPTER 10 70

Understand The Psychology of Change

CHAPTER 11 77

People Centered Leadership in a Tech Reality

CHAPTER 12 81

Lead in a Social Media and Multiple Devices Reality

Part 5: Final Tech and Leadership Tips 89

CHAPTER 13 89

Lead Diverse Teams

CHAPTER 14 94

Lead Up

CHAPTER 15 99

The Workplace of the Future: Technology, Change & Focused on People

Cheryl Cran