“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” —JACK WELCH
WHAT IS C.H.A.I.R. LEADERSHIP?
Founded on the famous quote from Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, author Cicely Simpson established her C.H.A.I.R Leadership program to coach leaders and executives on how to make their own way and be a people of impact in business and life. She developed the program around five strategies—one for each letter of the word C.H.A.I.R.:
As you work through this book, you’ll learn how to use the C.H.A.I.R. Leadership model to help you differentiate yourself from your peers, get noticed, and say what you need to say without having regrets. As Congresswoman Chisholm says, “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
The author of this book is all about helping you become a better leader. By becoming a better leader, she hopes that your career will take off and get you noticed in new ways all of them positive. Her chair philosophy is developed around the following concepts, Champion yourself, honesty, adaptability, impact, and regrets. The chapters are set up around these different concepts and strategies, and she also references other authors works that she is familiar with to help broaden and expand upon the strategy that she is trying to teach you. I found this book to be very helpful, especially the chapters around adaptability, and regrets. There was some really new ideas and Concepts in them that will help me in my career in a positive way I believe.