Leading great teams is like building a bridge. Each support cable strengthens the organization, providing both safety and strengthens work culture. The Leadership Bridge was written for anyone who aspires to great leadership in today’s volatile work environment.

Employees exercise greater control over where and under what conditions they will work. This significant change means many employees have an unprecedented position of power, and effective leaders need new approaches. Leaders who recognize this seismic shift and align their leadership behaviors to motivate and satisfy the needs of their teams will build cultures that are both engaging and profitable.

The Leadership Bridge shows leaders how to:

• Create a culture that attracts, engages, and retains the best talent in any market. Leaders will learn to develop behaviors and strategies that immunize their organization against excessive turnover and employee disengagement.
• Learn and apply the proven CABLES framework for inspiring others across all generations and diversities. Each of the CABLES behaviors provides an opportunity to build a stronger bridge between the leader and the employee.
• Lead with confidence and resilience through the inevitable stress and uncertainty of continuous change. Leaders will learn how develop their own self-awareness as well as identify proven activities for increasing happiness and improving personal wellbeing.

The first part of the book, LEAD FROM THE INSIDE OUT outlines the skills and behaviors leaders must develop to build a strong bridge with themselves. Here, you’ll find immediately actionable exercises for self-discovery that provide the foundation of strong leadership and relationship skills,

The second part of the book focuses on the C.A.B.L.E.S. behaviors that will inspire and engage employees to want to follow you as a leader.

The author’s philosophy has a powerful analogy in the the Golden Gate Bridge. What looks like a rigid structure was engineered to safely tolerate a great deal of stress through its flexible design. In many ways our relationships have the same ability to withstand many expected and unexpected stresses. Just like the bridge’s strength is supported through the combination of thousands of individual cables, the strength of our relationships with others is reliant on our consistently behaving in positive ways. Those positive behaviors represent the cables that strengthen our relationships with others. Each of the six CABLES behaviors provides an additional leadership skill to strengthen your relationships.

1. C Congruence: Align Your Words and Actions
2. A Appreciation: Recognize Others
3. B Belonging: The Power of Building a Tribe
4. L Listening: Techniques for Leaders
5. E Empathy: How Empathy Demonstrates Strength
6. S Specifics: How Clear Expectations Strengthen Every Interaction

The final part of the book, THE POWER OF INFLUENCE, EFFECTIVE HABIT FORMATION, AND THE CHALLENGE TO RISE ABOVE YOUR BEST addresses the strategies inspirational leaders employ to create durable change, recognize why employees might resist requests, and to effectively coach employees.