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Stepping Up: How To Accelerate Your Leadership Potential, 1st edition

Published by FT Publishing International (October 18, 2017) © 2018

  • Sarah Wood
  • Niamh O'Keeffe
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Stepping up could be about taking on your first leadership or management role.

It could be about changing your career, or leaving employment to start up on your own. It could be about changing the way you run a team already under your management.

Whatever your circumstances, you will face the same issues we all do: changing attitudes, changing technology and our fast-moving rollercoaster of a world.

Stepping Up will inspire and equip you to understand and respond to that change and develop your ability to lead yourself and others through it. Follow the practical five point framework on how to step up and fulfil your ambitions:

  • 1. Vision – How to reset your rules in a complex and changing landscape
  • 2. Values – Develop your leadership mission by understanding why you want to lead
  • 3. Velocity – Invest in yourself and build the skills and capabilities of a great leader
  • 4. Votes – Invest in your team and bring together a fantastic team of people to take you on your journey
  • 5. Victories – Deliver brilliant results and ensure you can deliver on your promises
  • Step 1 VISION: reset the rules
  • Step 2 VALUES: make it matter
  • Step 3 VELOCITY: invest in yourself
  • Step 4 VOTES: invest in your team
  • Step 5 VICTORIES: deliver brilliant results!
  • Appendices
  • 1 Checklist: the cheat sheet
  • 2 Assignment: your Stepping up plan
  • 3 The last word
  • Index

Dr Sarah Wood (PhD) is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Unruly. Unruly is a social advertising company, bought by Rupert Murdoch/News Corporation in 2015 for £114million. Sarah was critical in brokering the deal with News Corporation. Since its inception in 2006, Unruly has worked with 90% of Advertising Top 100 Brands including work with Adidas, Dove, Evian and Renault.

Sarah is an associate lecturer at University of Cambridge, teaching a Masters course since 2012. In collaboration with Cass Business School, Sarah’s company Unruly hosts a pop up university offering free lectures by business leaders and academic tutors to inspire new entrepreneurs in Brick Lane, Shoreditch. As part of her former academic studies, Sarah has experience of writing and publishing a book on a niche history topic.

Recent awards include Veuve Cliquot “Business Woman of the Year, 2016”, Forbes’ “Top 15 Woman to Watch”, Red magazine “Digital Woman of the Year” and Computer Weekly’s “Most influential Women in UK IT”.

Niamh O’Keeffe is Founder and MD of First100 and CEOassist leadership advisory businesses. Formerly a strategy consultant with Accenture. Niamh’s executive coaching clients include senior executives at Accenture, Barclays, BP, BT, Eircom, Microsoft, Oliver Wyman and Vodafone.

She is aauthor of 3 Pearson/FT Publishing International titles: Your First 100 Days, Lead your Team in your First 100 Days and Your Next Role.

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