Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness

This is a book I will be recommending to my coaching clients and their teams for a long time!

Guided by Richard Boyatzis' and Annie McKee's previous research on resonant leadership (and book by that title [[ASIN:1591395631 Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion]]) and coaching to the Positive Emotional Attractor, this workbook-like text provides an excellent hands-on guide, with dozens of useful exercises, to help leaders make intentional change--focused on being emotionally open and receptive. Called the Intentional Change model, here's an overview:
a. Ideal Self: If I were the best me possible, what would that look like in the future?
b. Real Self: Who am I today--my strengths, weaknesses, and influence on others?
c. Learning Agenda: How do I move from the real to the ideal state? What interesting, challenging and enjoyable activities will get me there?
d. Experiment and Practice: How can new behaviors and habits lead to the change I wish to become?
e. Resonant Relationships: Change only happens in a supportive and nonjudgmental environment. Surrounding myself with those kinds of people is as vital as anything to me in the process.

Put this book on your list of important reads.

In depth review can be found on [...] by Steve Gladis

Good book- please make sure to splurge for a new copy so you can actually write in it, as there are several activities you want to complete. Having old user comments in the book is a distraction.

An excellent book and a good companion guide to their previous book - [[ASIN:B0015IX7GU Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion]]. I thought that the exercises would be particularly useful tools for those who help develop leaders (coaches, etc).

A few observations: On page 39 it mentions (in one paragraph) that "..there is compassion - not often discussed in books on leadership. But compassion is a very important aspect....". So I thought, this is good! Finally a leadership book that discusses compassion! But I was disappointed as there is no discussion anywhere in the book about compassion. Overall I thought some important areas of mindfulness (compassion is one of them) were somewhat shortchanged in an otherwise excellent book. What about 'intuition'? Or 'leading from the heart?' Or 'integrity'? Resonant leaders, first and foremost, need to be attuned with themselves. This area could have been given more attention in the book.

Dr Christine Maingard, Author of 'Think Less Be More:Mental Detox for Everyone'

I bought this workbook to use as a companion for my Resonant Leadership book written by the same authors. Everything these authors write will set you free from a dissonance world.

I usually don't write in books and keep them but this one is a keeper. Thought-provoking and worth the time to analyze your leadership characteristics to get perpsective.

great read

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Such an incredible book. Highly recommend. Do the exercises.

I bought this book for a class, and it has a lot of exercises to help you develop yourself. If you put the effort you need to into the book and what it asks of you, you will develop into a better person

Among her many credits, Annie McKee is co-author of the international best-selling books, Primal Leadership and Resonant Leadership. The trilogy is complete with this newer book, Becoming a Resonant Leadership, which I read cover to cover today. We all know that leaders' emotions affect the moods of everyone around them. McKee's book, co-authored with Richard Boyatzis and Frances Johnston, shows leaders how to develop and use emotional intelligence to improve morale, growth, profitability, and long-term success.