Developing as a leader – free of charge

Sometimes my brief includes helping someone develop as a leader – to hone their thinking, behavior and leadership skills. It may be an incumbent executive who has a vision and wants to get people on board or a rising star who has come unstuck or a brilliant performer with a seemingly annoying tendency or to accelerate as part of a succession plan or someone who has just landed the top job and wants to maximise the first one hundred days in post.

Interested and reading this you may also want to develop as a leader.

We could work together or you can read my blog posts for free. Here, I am going to point you to the free stuff, though by way of introduction please let me explain my inspiration:

I have been in the construction industry for over 40 years, the last twenty as a Leadership Team Coach. Throughout this time I have worked for and worked with some great leaders and have read many fine leadership books. I was once a leader though now consider myself a student of leadership; I am privileged to be able to watch, work with and learn from people who are far more accomplished than I was.

I am frequently inspired by these leaders and how they go about changing things for the better and getting stuff done through their people – so I write about my experiences and what I learn in my blog posts. I wear a hair shirt about much of what I do though love writing my blog posts and am proud of them. Also they serve as a contemporaneous record of the leadership agenda or at least of those leaders that I have served and or studied.

Anyway, here’s where to find the free stuff:

www.dsabuilding.co.uk has two blogs (tabs at the top) “The Leader” and “Blog”. To get a feel for The Leader read “The Last Leader” – this signposts the most read posts stretching back over six years and my favorites. “Blog” includes my most recent and best work.

Also from this website you can order a copy of my first book (Co-authored with Paul Fox) “21st Century People Leadership” and download my second book “We Need to Talk about Collaboration” – both free of charge.

www.davestitt.com is home to my “Ideas and Thoughts” blog and includes gems on: how to get people to talk after your talk, what’s so important about social intelligence plus a tool that helps you measure yours, a free workshop (that can be resurrected) on how to survive Brexit and how come Boris is so confident.

I think if you purposefully read the lot, I know you won’t but if you did, you would get more leadership insight and practical stuff than you would if you did an MBA. You wouldn’t get the tag though you would save £15,000 to £75,000 and all from the comfort of your favorite place.

Oh, and watch out for my new book “How to Delegate: The new art of unleashing talent and winning back time”. It’s going to be on Amazon in time for Christmas. It won’t be free of charge though will be almost infinitely cheaper than the MBA and in terms of ROI considerably more useful – given you want to develop as a leader rather than as an administrator.