Soft Skills Hard Results: A Practical Guide to People Skills for Analytical Leaders

Business is in Anne’s blood. She was raised in part by a businessman, attained a Business Degree in Canada, and worked for 20 years at P&G and Nestlé across many countries. It was while Anne was working in a Global Marketing role in Switzerland that both her parents died unexpectedly 22 weeks apart. This experience changed her (not just her life). It opened her eyes to the power and importance of being heart-smart (aware of emotions and their impact) and led her to retrain as an Executive & Leadership Coach. This led to the international publication of the book, Soft Skills HARD RESULTS: a practical guide to people skills for analytical leaders.

Soft Skills HARD RESULTS is an introduction to emotional intelligence (EI) for sceptics. It is a succinct, practical guide for an analytical, task-driven business person to enter the realm of emotions and thoughtful interpersonal communication with just enough justification to hook the logical, left side of their brain. It helps them balance their head-smart strengths and tendencies through simple tools, frameworks and exercises challenging them to become more heart smart. It’s structured in four parts – Inside (self), Outside (others), Between (our relationships) and Beyond (the future) which creates real clarity of how leaders need to work on themselves first (inside) within the bigger picture of the legacy they want to create (the future).

The insights in this book are harvested and vetted beyond Anne’s own experience to that of her extensive leadership development work with individuals, groups and teams globally. She coaches and facilitates leaders to lead with Emotional Intelligence to motivate and inspire their teams to greater performance and satisfaction (for all). To help maintain her business acumen, she is an Executive Coach at both London Business School, working with clients in banking, insurance, and FMCG; LHH Consulting for clients in IT, retail and food; in addition to her own private clients such as Nestlé, Ford, EBMT, Visual Concepts and many more.

Her book was an Amazon #1 hot new release and was featured in Forbes, We are the City, Red Magazine, Elite Business Magazine and many others, with international media attention. Anne has spoken on podcasts in Europe and North American such as the Extraordinary Business Book Club, Voice America and Moolala.

The HRDirector Review description is “this book shatters our most deeply held convictions about how well we know ourselves and our people skills and their impact on our workforces and will help us explore our past successes along with some misguided failures and most importantly the writer has a rare gift of making complicated ideas come alive in a way that will ensure the return on investment of our people skills (or soft skills) in the workplace…”

From a business perspective she believes that leaders need to be head-smart and heart-smart for continued success and satisfaction. From a human perspective she believes that when we all act with EI, business, relationships and life are better for everyone (the epitome of soft skills delivering hard results).

Anne Taylor is the Founder and Lead Executive Coach of Directions Coaching Ltd.

Visit her website for a free copy of the first chapter of her book and many other resources at www.directions-coaching.com

Soft Skills Hard Results: A Practical Guide to People Skills for Analytical Leaders (Published by Practical Inspiration Publishing) is available to buy on Amazon. 

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