Leadership Hacks

FINALIST in the award for LEADERSHIP: The Australian Business Book Awards

Hack your leadership and improve your approach

With rapid change and hybrid workplaces becoming the new way of working, leaders are struggling to achieve their outcomes. How do you stay ahead in the face of constantly shifting priorities, competitors, and deadlines? With this fully revised and updated edition of Leadership Hacks, you’ll discover how to cut through the madness and get back to achieving results.

Author Scott Stein helps leaders—from CEOs to frontline managers to small business owners—identify ways to make a difference to the people they manage and the tasks they undertake. Here, he details proven hacks at every level: personal, one-on-one, team, hybrid and remote. With his tips, shortcuts and advice, you can rise above the daily deluge and make real progress.

This is a book for leaders looking for the life, work, and business hacks that will help you manage and inspire others. Whether you’re feeling burned out or thriving but still looking for better strategies to get things done and stay on top, this book will open your mind to new possibilities. If you’re leading a hybrid workforce, you’ll especially love the hacks for keeping your people productive and reducing costs.

• identify what distractions slow you down
• fast-track your productivity to do more in less time
• streamline delegation so your people perform faster
• learn the communication and technology shortcuts that get faster results
• create and lead a hybrid workforce that increases performance.

Leadership Hacks shows you how to hack your day, shift your approach and boost your communication so you can lead in a more effective and efficient way, no matter where your team is.

About the author xi

Acknowledgements xiii

Introduction: The leadership dilemma — too much to do in too little time xv

Part I: Personal Hacks 1

1 Distractions and productivity 3

2 Technology and email 31

Part II: One-On-One Hacks 57

3 Communication 59

4 Delegation 79

5 Coaching 105

Part III: Team Hacks 129

6 Team meetings 131

7 Team mobilisation 159

Part IV: Hybrid and Remote Hacks 181

8 Understanding hybrid 183

9 Designing hybrid 211

10 Hybrid Success 247

Final words 291

Join the Leadership Hacks community 293

References 295

Index 305

SCOTT STEIN, MA, CSP, has helped thousands of leaders implement fast-track strategies that improve results. He is a leading international speaker and an expert on leadership and influence who helps many of the world’s best-known brands and government agencies to mobilise their leaders and their people.

‘This book is for you if you are a CEO, aspiring CEO or just want to boost your impact as a leader. Scott is a great communicator and this updated edition is both enjoyable and full of actionable insights for leading hybrid teams.’

NICK ABRAHAMS, Global Co-leader Digital Transformation Practice, Norton Rose Fulbright

Hack your leadership and improve your approach

With rapid change and hybrid workplaces becoming the new way of working, leaders are struggling to achieve their outcomes. How do you stay ahead in the face of constantly shifting priorities, competitors, and deadlines? With this fully revised and updated edition of Leadership Hacks, you’ll discover how to cut through the madness and get back to achieving results.

Author Scott Stein helps leaders—from CEOs to frontline managers to small business owners—identify ways to make a difference to the people they manage and the tasks they undertake. Here, he details proven hacks at every level: personal, one-on-one, team, hybrid and remote. With his tips, shortcuts and advice, you can rise above the daily deluge and make real progress. Learn how to:

• identify what distractions slow you down
• fast-track your productivity to do more in less time
• streamline delegation so your people perform faster
• learn the communication and technology shortcuts that get faster results
• create and lead a hybrid workforce that increases performance.

Leadership Hacks shows you how to hack your day, shift your approach and boost your communication so you can lead in a more effective and efficient way, no matter where your team is.