Language That Leads: Communication Strategies that Inspire and Engage

by Kasia Wezowski

Inspire and motivate your team using powerful verbal and nonverbal communication strategies.

Today’s leaders need to use effective, empathetic communication to bring out the best in their team members and let each individual shine.

Kasia Wezowski, a leading researcher on body language and communication skills, combines her cutting-edge research with Marshall Goldsmith’s leadership development methodology in this practical and timely resource for leaders. Goldsmith believes that a leader’s job is to bring out the best in each team member and Language That Leads breaks down the ten core qualities of leadership, providing easy-to-follow implementation steps to express, observe, and project these qualities effectively through verbal and nonverbal communication.

In these pages, readers will

How to integrate adaptability, empathy, engagement, and transparency in interpersonal communication.How to cultivate courage, discipline, and integrity in order to build self-trust and garner trust from others.How to develop humility, positivity, and purpose in order to be a quietly powerful role model to team members.How to transform oneself internally to embody these ten qualities and empower others to do the same.

Genres: Leadership, Audiobook, Nonfiction

240 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 1, 2023

Reviews

[Reading_ Tamishly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you, HarperCollins Leadership, for the advance reading copy.

The book is a must read regarding communication and how it can be done with the best possible strategies.

There are three main sections on this aspect. The first section lists out the essential outer skills, the second part includes the basic inner skills and the final section focuses on the three most important growth skills.

I have gained so much from this book as I am a team leader myself at my work place and I am always looking out for books on leadership which would focus on the best communication skills. This book has effortlessly climbed to the top list for me. A must read recommendation on the topic.

[عبـد الرَّحْمَٰن فَتْحــي · Rating 2 out of 5]

It seems to be an article that has been extended to become a book, so it would have been better if it had been just the half of the book, without filling.

There are some good stuff here, however, there are also many superficial and naive topics, as if the audience is a bunch of idiots who have never been involved in a conversation or been placed in a situation that requires interaction with others.

One more thing. There is a significant amount of self-promotion by the author, and her achievements, which I found to be a negative indicator.

I have translated this book into Arabic, and it will be available soon. Though it wasn't my decision, it was delegated to me, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

2.5 out of 5

[Devin · Rating 1 out of 5]

I rarely give one star reviews, but unfortunately Language That Leads was incredibly disappointing. I DNF at Chapter 5 because the recommendations lacked credible research and citations, and most examples were dull personal stories about the author. The “BLINK” framework was simply testing two opposite ideas to see how people react, and the tools for measuring highlighted traits like courage, transparency, and enthusiasm were just 1–10 scales with no real methodology behind them. The whole book felt like teaching a robot how to interact with humans, but with advice that was surface-level and disconnected from real behavioral science research. As someone passionate about leadership books (especially those written by and for women) I'm disappointed, but I can’t recommend this one....

[Darya · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book focuses on outer skills, inner skills and growth skills that each leader should embody in their behavior and lifestyle in order to thrive in the modern environment. The book walks you through several traits vitally important for a leader such as adaptability, empathy, courage, engagement, positivity and others with the aim to help in development and growth of these trait s in yourself, communicating and projecting these traits and finding them in others. This is the way to new leadership style that emphasizes the interplay of the leaders and the whole team.

[mrspegz · Rating 5 out of 5]

For a leader looking to put up a capable team, this book is really inspiring.
The beauty of working as a human team is that perfection is rooted in imperfection.
It was nice to finally read a book that combines body language with leadership. I found the information on microexpressions, or the facial expressions of emotions, to be really intriguing. I was unaware of how important they were to communication.
With its fresh approach to leadership, this book teaches readers how to form close relationships with each team member and foster engagement and drive.

[MeganRuth - Alohamora Open a Book · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars rounded. Pretty solid leadership book. She gave great examples and was consistent w the Blink Technique. Many takeaways that are doable.

I felt the second half got a little repetitive, but overall a valuable read if you’re looking to improve as a leader.

Thank you Libro.fm for the listen.

[J Kromrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this eARC.

A stunningly good book that gives your communication skills (I especially loved that both verbal and non-verbal communication was included.

Truly an engaging book, as well as highly informative, this is definitely one I am recommending to my team at work.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good stuff. I would not call this a must read, but there is some solid approaches here. There's a lot of focus on body language here, so there's not a lot new. But still useful.

I really appreciate the free copy for review!!

[Tiana Thai · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5 will be suitable. This book is about the way you
Control your language and body language can change the result of everything. How you keep caml, how you show your emotion, how you put your hand or how you control your eyes contact

[Michelle Depenbrock · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing particularly new. Some chapters lacked depth, the positivity chapter is the first that comes to mind without any depth. The BLINK technique and the body language expressions were very repetitive.

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

Randomly picked this up at the library. MAYBE ok if you know zero about interacting with other people?

This exemplifies a lot of the "helpful resources" in the book: "Here's a tool you can use to guage audience engagement." Reader, it was a straight line with the numbers 1-10 on it.

[Kelly Harper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Work book club about microexpressions and how to lead through integrity, trust, and openness.

[Guanhui · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some useful ideas but could be summarised as an article

[Kristen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Do I count as read when I just couldn’t finish? Extremely redundant. Probably some good stuff in here but hard to pick through the majority that isn’t.

[Christa JoAnna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Examples were off …

[Caty Rengifo · Rating 2 out of 5]

it's not a bad book, I just did not connect with the way it's written.