Kind Leader: A Practical Guide to Eliminating Fear, Creating Trust, and Leading with Kindness

Kindness and leadership are not often associated, but this book aims to teach leaders how to lead with kindness in order to create kinder workplaces, organizations, and the world. The book combines theory, case studies, and reflections from leaders and the people they influence, and includes practical exercises to turn theory into practice. By leading with kindness, leaders can influence others to think, speak, and act kindly, creating a more compassionate and cooperative environment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 206 pages
Publication date: 10 September 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Kindness and leadership are not often associated with each other. When asked to describe good leadership, individuals often use adjectives such as authentic, bold, challenging, charismatic, decisive, empowering, fearless, goal-oriented, humble, inspiring, original, passionate, role-model, strategic, and transparent. However, kindness is not commonly included in this list. The problem with this is that leaders lead, and their way of leading influences those they lead. From the president of a country to the president of a company, from middle managers to front-line supervisors, what a leader models, how they think, speak, and act, influences the people they lead. Leaders who think, speak, and act unkindly give legitimacy and permission to those they lead to think, speak, and act in the same unkind ways.

In today's world, where leaders' words and actions can travel quickly through social media channels like Twitter, their influence, whether unkind or kind, is amplified through repeated views and sharing. In an increasingly fragmented, polarized, and divided world, we need leaders who will bring people together rather than divide them. Leaders who value and model cooperation and collaboration over competition. And who model ways to think kindly, speak kindly, and act kindly. We need kindness to become synonymous with good leadership.

The purpose of this book is to teach leaders how to lead with kindness, so they can influence the people they lead to create kinder workplaces, organizations, and the world. Each chapter contains a mixture of theory, case studies, and reflections from leaders and experts in the field.

In conclusion, kindness and leadership are not often synonymous, but they can be. By leading with kindness, leaders can influence those they lead to create a more compassionate and inclusive world. This book provides valuable insights and strategies for leaders to achieve this goal.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 178 x 255 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367693428