The Catalyst Effect: 12 Skills and Behaviors to Boost Your Impact and Elevate Team Performance

Business professors and specialists Toomer et al. explain the mindset and competencies leaders need to impact and elevate team performance. They describe a catalyst effect that occurs by fusing leadership and teamwork into a force that raises the performance of everyone and elevates the overall team success, producing higher-level results. Drawing on interviews with professionals and leaders in business, sports, and the arts, they detail 12 key competencies to improve impact and drive progress toward team goals: building credibility by acting with integrity and inspiring trust, communicating clearly, and energizing others with optimism; creating cohesion by connecting emotionally, developing camaraderie, and putting the team''s goals and the organization''s mission before personal interests; generating momentum by energizing others to execute with the mission in mind, upgrading and rejuvenating skills and knowledge, and leading and following; and amplifying impact by pursuing excellence, mentoring and coaching others to excel, and proposing imaginative solutions. Provides a practical, research-based roadmap for developing and applying twelve key competencies to multiply an individual’s impact, elevate the performance of others, and accelerate progress toward mission-oriented goals, generating greater value.

• | Author: Professor Chelsea Clark, Professor Steve Weitzenkorn, Professor Jerry Toomer, Professor Craig Caldwell
• | Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2021
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781787548114
• | ISBN-10: 1787548112