Interview with Iris Clermont, author of Team Rhythm: Eleven ways to lead your team from overwhelmed to inspired
Iris Clermont, author of Team Rhythm: Eleven ways to lead your team from overwhelmed to inspired recommends a valuable selection of books! Before jumping into the interview, please check out Iris's book:
Description from Blackwells: Uncover and embrace the metaphorical and literal aspects of rhythm to create profound connections with your teams and cultivate a thriving co-creative environment. Team Rhythm provides engaging tools and techniques to ensure both leaders and teams feel appreciated and make tangible contributions to business success. Complemented by thought-provoking illustrations, this practical handbook brings key concepts of team building to life with lightness and humour. Explore: • Leadership growth and team inspiration with self-reflections and excellent leadership diagnostics • A wealth of practical team development exercises • New ideas to navigate with candour through challenging aspects of leadership • Your team’s potential to achieve added-value outcomes • Co-creating an effective and empowering work environment (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
Team Rhythm: Eleven ways to lead your team from overwhelmed to inspired
Juggling multiple transformations and diverse business demands can be overwhelming for leaders and their teams – but it doesn’t have to be.
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Bookshop.org UK £16.14
Bookshop.org US $21.99
Blackwells £16.99
Waterstones £16.99
Wordery $20.72
Q. Do you have a favourite smart thinking book (and why that book)?
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful by Marshall Goldsmith. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith because this book reminds me to take a fresh look at all the influencing changes around me and rethink what I need to do differently. It reminds me which skills should be improved and which could use particular focus and attention to add value for my clients.
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful
Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. That something may just be one of your own annoying habits.Perhaps one small flaw - a behaviour you barely even recognise - is the only thing that's keeping you from where you want to be. It may be that the very characteristic that you believe got you where you are - like the drive to win at all costs - is what's holding you back. As this book explains, people often do well in spite of certain habits rather than because of them-and need a 'to stop' list rather than one listing what 'to do'. Marshall Goldsmith's expertise is in helping global leaders overcome their unconscious annoying habits and become more successful.
His one-on-one coaching comes with a six-figure price tag - but in this book you get his great advice for much less. Recently named as one of the world's five most-respected executive coaches by Forbes, he has worked with over 100 major CEOs and their management teams at the world's top businesses. His clients include corporations such as Goldman Sachs, Glaxo SmithKline, Johnson and Johnson and GE.
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Easons €13.99
Bookshop.org UK £9.49
Bookshop.org US $18.60
Blackwells £11.99
Waterstones £9.99
Wordery $12.18
Q. What's the most recent smart thinking book you've read (and how would you rate it)?
Outstanding in the Middle How Middle Managers Make the Difference by Birgitta Sjöstrand. Description from Blackwells: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
OUTSTANDING in the MIDDLE: How Middle Managers Make the Difference by Birgitta Sjöstrand is outstanding, with 5 out of 5 stars, as every word adds real value for middle managers and leaders from 360 different aspects. I enjoyed every word of the book and especially gained from the cultural aspects, demonstrating clarity and transparency. I am looking forward to adding real value to my clients and teams in the middle management area, taking special care and awareness of the cultural differences and their effects.
Outstanding in the Middle How Middle Managers Make the Difference
Being a role model and outstanding as a middle manager makes you and your team successful. This book is about leading yourself and your team through change and conflicts with essential influencing skills. It is an understandable read for non-native English speakers. Don't see others run past you, step up, be the leader in the middle! Buying this book today, it's your best decision. Birgitta Sjöstrand is an outstanding leadership trainer, coach and public speaker working internationally with both large and small organisations for more than 15 years.
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Easons €20.99
Blackwells £14.99
Waterstones £14.99
Wordery $18.28
Q. Do you have a favourite childhood book?
Momo by Michael Ende. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
Yes, Momo by Michael Ende. Active listening skills are crucial in unlocking the wisdom that lies within every person. With these skills, one can gain an enhanced understanding and insight into the experiences of others. Michael Ende's book Momo emphasises the positive impact of listening deeply to others. The author talks about a person's ability to tune in to the people around them and bring out their most profound knowledge so everyone can become insightful and inspirational. He uses an example of someone cleaning the floor, concentrating on each sweep of the broom and getting into flow rather than feeling overwhelmed by the size of the area they have to clean. I hear similar wise words from project leaders who listen to their teams, focus on a step-by-step approach and improve engagement.
Momo
At the edge of the city, in the ruins of an old amphitheatre, there lives a little homelss girl called Momo. Momo has a special talent which she uses to help all her friends who come to visit her. Then one day the sinister men in grey arrive and silently take over the city. Only Momo has the power to resist them, and with the help of Professor Hora and his strange tortoise, Cassiopeia, she travels beyond the boundaries of time to uncover their dark secrets.
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Easons €11.019
Bookshop.org UK £7.59
Bookshop.org US $24.13
Blackwells £7.99
Waterstones £7.99
Wordery $9.74
Q. Do you prefer reading on paper, Kindle or listening to an audiobook?
I prefer reading from my home office and listening to audiobooks when travelling.
Q. Do you have a favourite bookshop (and why that shop)?
Mayersche Aachen
Mayersche local bookshop in Aachen as I can explore three floors filled with books and a cafe on the top floor. It is a beautiful place to read books whilst looking over the town from the roof terrace.
Many thanks to Iris for recommending a valuable selection of books! Please don't forget to check out Team Rhythm: Eleven ways to lead your team from overwhelmed to inspired.
Daryl
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