Positive Leadership in Practice: A Model for Our Future

by Cornelia Lucey, Jolanta Burke

This book aims to help leaders become the best versions of themselves, achieve extraordinary results, and help their team accomplish the same. Packed with research and practical advice from real-life positive leaders, it offers an extensive look into both what high-performance leadership is and how it can be achieved. Positive Leadership in Practice is a resource that all leaders can tap into to be more effective. The book introduces an ALIGHT model that guides leaders through six fundamental resources that can alight their own and their team’s motivation and transform their performance to an extraordinary level. Further breaking down the six resources into 18 core components, the book expands on what constitutes the six resources to make them tangible and accessible. The book also offers leaders the opportunity to self-assess their own levels of resources and levels of positive leadership through a questionnaire, as well as opportunities to reflect on how to further develop these levels of resources and positive leadership. Finally, the book signposts practical strategies to tap into on the back of their reflections to take action to become their best possible positive leader. This book is for existing and aspiring managers, leaders, and those with people-related roles such as in human resources, coaching, leadership development, and organisational consultants, as well as anyone in more informal leadership positions. After all, we are all leaders.

214 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 2022

Reviews

[Alireza Hejazi · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this book, readers learn what it means to be a motivating leader in the contemporary world and how to do it. It introduces the ALIGHT leadership model. Abundance, limberness, inspiration, grand design, health, and tribe are all represented by the acronym ALIGHT. The book’s writers’ proposal for the ALIGHT model is based on their interviews with eight CEOs from various industries. They investigated the viewpoints and comments of those leaders on their leadership practices and organized them according to the ALIGHT model. Their framework walks leaders through six basics that may help them align the motivations of themselves and their teams and elevate their performance to a whole new level. They focus on what makes up their approach as a concrete and useful leadership style by dissecting those six resources into 18 key elements. This book is for all executives and leaders who want to lead in a way that benefits themselves, their team, their company, and society as a whole.