Gourmet Leadership: Turn up the Heat on Your Secret Sauce!

With the Great Resignation underway, your leadership — now more than ever — affects whether people want to work for you. No matter your industry or aspirations, it’s time to make sure you have the right leadership ingredients to attract and inspire the best in your team.\nIn Gourmet Leadership: Turn Up the Heat on Your Secret Sauce, executive coach Carolyn Maue unlocks the secrets to truly excellent leadership and cooks up a compelling metaphor between best-in-class executive chefs and best-in-class leaders from any industry. The result is a delightfully creative approach to a serious dilemma in people management: a lack of access to critical leadership training, resulting in leadership mistakes, lost opportunities, and a lack of effectiveness, all impacting employee engagement and retention. Maue provides solutions with an easily digestible and proven leadership manual that both seasoned executives and new leaders in every industry will find valuable.\nIn the book, you’ll discover a feast of leadership skills and practical advice you can immediately apply, as well as exercises for you and your employees, focused on: Creating a compelling vision Discovering your strengths Giving and getting feedback Transitioning from doer to leader Building the best team Dealing with difficult people and conflict resolution Developing a leadership presence As you work your way through Gourmet Leadership, you’ll reinforce your strengths and learn to build on them. Most importantly, you’ll explore your own “secret sauce,” that spicy mix of passion, personality, and experience that makes you a unique and uniquely effective leader. Whether your leadership “kitchen” is in the service industry or not, Gourmet Leadership isa recipe for success as America’s relationship with work is drastically changing — and the demands on leaders have never been greater.\nPraise for Gourmet Leadership from executives across industries\n“Carolyn Maue serves up an epicurean feast for those looking to hone their leadership skills into a fine art. A mix of the perfect ingredients to develop your own leadership style awaits you in this helpful new book.” — Diane Holder, President/CEO, UPMC Health Plan, Inc.\n“Carolyn Maue is an experienced leadership coach who has helped hundreds of people realize their potential with pragmatic, action-oriented support…In Gourmet Leadership, she makes those enduring insights fun and accessible through her own special sauce.” — Dale Whittaker, PhD, Lead Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation\nFor exclusive resources and more, visit https://www.GourmetLeadershipBook.com