So, You Think You Can Lead?: A Guide to Developing Your Leadership Authority and Potential

Imagine having the skills, competence, and awareness to lead any employee to greater productivity, alignment of expectations and followership.

Whether you are new to leading or have been at it for a while, So, You Think You Can Lead? will help you build your capacity to navigate the complexities of leading people.

This book shows you how to become a conscious, professional leader by:

• Learning how to master the competencies needed to lead new to mature employees

• Exploring why self-awareness is critical to leading others and why effective leadership starts on the inside, by knowing yourself
• Becoming aware of your adaptive leadership behaviour

• Learning how to stop saying "yes" when you mean "no"

• Showing you the steps to maximize the performance of any employee, no matter their skills or personalities

• Identifying bed leadership habits to avoid developing

• Demonstrating how to deal with issues skillfully, and with authority.

Leaders are required to help organizations thrive, and the quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, can determine the success or failure of an organization.

Most leaders are led to believe they should be able to just show up and lead. Despite all the research that leaders are developed and not born, few leaders actually look at leading as a profession that requires them to train, gain experience in, and mastery in order to be effective.


About the Authors

Anne Dranitsaris, Ph.D. & Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard’s mission is to give leaders the power and wisdom to lead by first recognizing that being a leader is a profession and like any other, people need to develop skills, competencies, emotional intelligence through learning and practicing.

Based on over 30-years' working with a wide range of client organizations, the authors blend their experience in organizational development, behavioral change, personality, and brain organization to challenge the prevailing beliefs in organizations that leaders do not need to develop. It provides leaders with a clear, step-by-step framework to become conscious, learned and experienced in how to lead employees and fully realize their leadership potential while improving productivity and efficiencies.

Authority is not a dirty word….

It's never been more challenging or more frustrating to be a leader than it is today. By reading this book, you will discover the truth about how changing beliefs and a lack of development is leaving leaders feeling powerless to lead (and how it's NOT the fault of the employees).

The book explains what leading with consciousness, knowledge and authority looks like. It shows the importance of establishing and maintaining leadership authority, and each of the skills and competencies that a leader must master in order to effectively navigate the complexities of leading people through the stages of employee development.

Discover what it takes to truly develop as a leader. Follow the step-by-step approach, based on the 6 Pillars of Leading with Authority framework, that shows how to build the skills needed to lead people as well as how to establish authority and lead performance.

So, if you think you can lead or are wondering if you are a 'good' leader, it's time to reframe the question, changing the conversation from what you like to think of yourself as a leader to the impact that you have on people and the business itself.