This edition is for you when you carry responsibility for other people at work: a team leader in a new role, a manager steering through a hard week, or a senior leader holding a difficult decision. Navigate Leadership Challenges sits beside you in the situations that leading brings.
It helps you meet those situations with perspective and composure. The wisdom is grounded in research on leadership transitions, adaptive leadership, leading change and team dynamics, and it gathers voices from many centuries on how to lead people well.
Inside is a personalised card deck and an ebook, both carrying your own name on every page. The sections follow the situations of leading: New Leadership Role, Leading Through Crisis, Difficult Team Dynamics, Making Tough Decisions, Leading Change, Performance Management, and a section on pacing yourself with themes such as Delegate, Rest and Set-Boundaries. Each card shows a theme, an image and a short description on the front, and on the back a curated set of quotes from six wisdom traditions with room for your own handwritten notes. The ebook holds the same wisdom as a flowing book you can read on a tablet or phone, or print and bind.
On WorkSmart4Life you find it on the library shelf under "Life Wisdom: the moments of a working life". Begin with the situation you are facing now: print only those cards and keep them on your desk while that season lasts, writing notes that connect a quote to a real decision or conversation.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life