by Elizabeth Lotardo (Author)
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.
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Leading Yourself is 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.
Elizabeth 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.
This is a book about real-life work, not theoretical musings from an executive think tank.
Leading Yourself includes...
- Strategies to overcome self-doubt, embrace change, and navigate uncertainty
- Talk tracks for handling challenging people, like micromanagers, know-it-alls, and leaders who constantly change their mind
- How to avoid awkwardness when giving or 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 is about controlling the controllable. It's owning, from whatever seat you're in, your work experience.
If you're frustrated with your organization, your job, your coworkers, or your boss, you're the one paying the price. Not them.
Identifying what you can control is the antidote to burnout. Recognizing that you're in charge of you is what gives you the emotional freedom to create the career you want. It's what gives you the authority to create the life you want.
You deserve to feel like your life is purposeful, joyful, and full of opportunity... because it is. Leading Yourself puts the power back in your hands.
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PRAISE FOR LEADING YOURSELF
"Leading Yourself is a great guide for purpose-driven professionals who want to take control of their career and transform work into a source of joy and meaning. Elizabeth Lotardo has written a practical playbook for creating your own fulfillment, turning the everyday into launchpads for growth. Her action-oriented approach can inspire you to seize the power you have to create a work experience worth loving, right now."
--HUBERT JOLY, former Best Buy CEO, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, and author of The Heart of Business
"Refreshingly candid and hilariously honest. Leading Yourself puts the power back in your hands."
--DORIE CLARK, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game and executive education faculty, Columbia Business School
"As someone who's led several start-ups to Unicorn status, I've seen firsthand the difference between people who wait to be led vs. those who know how to lead themselves. This is the book your boss needs you to read."
--STEVE JOHNSON, Technology executive, start-up veteran, and investor
"If you're feeling stuck, afraid, or disempowered, this book will transform the way you approach your career. In a time of rapid change, Leading Yourself is the blueprint for creating success on your terms."
--DR. RUTH GOTIAN, Thinkers50 #1 emerging management thinker in the world, and author of The Success Factor and The Financial Times Guide to Mentoring
Author Biography
ELIZABETH LOTARDO is a consultant, writer, and online instructor. She writes for Harvard Business Review and is the co-author of Selling with Noble Purpose. Elizabeth works with senior leaders, frontline managers, and entry-level teammates to create more purpose-driven work experiences.