Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 Leadership, Management, and Communication in a Time of Rapid Change -- Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities at Work -- As a Manager -- Can I be Human? -- The Two-Agenda Approach -- On Transformation -- Part 2 Case-Studies on Transforming Communication in Management -- Carl Rogers' Counseling Center in Chicago -- A Case Study -- Chairing the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling -- Managing Change, Performance Evaluation and Controlling with Congruence and Integrity -- How I Changed my Leadership Style from Directive-Confrontational to Open, Appreciative and Person-Centered -- Make it Personal: International Futures Forum's Approach to Community Transformation -- Part 3 For the Manager and Team Member -- The Interpersonal Relationship at Work: The Preconditions of Transformative Communication -- Methods for Transforming Communication: Dialogue -- Transforming Communication Through Intensive Group Experience, Communication Workshops, and Open Case -- Integrating the Two Agendas in Key-Situations -- Integrating the Two Agendas in Agile Management -- Building and Developing Well-Functioning Teams -- the Impact of Transformative Communication -- Part 4 What Are the Facts? -- How Neuroscience can Help to Understand the Working of Emotions and Empathy in Leadership -- Tasks and People: What Neuroscience Reveals About Managing Both Effectively -- Study on Personal Perceptions of Communication in Organizations -- Transforming Communication in Multi-Cultural Contexts -- Part 5 Conclusions.-The Social and Value Ramification: Well-Functioning Teams, Collaboration, and Co- actualization.

This accessible, highly interactive book presents a transformative approach to communication in leadership to meet workplace challenges at both local and global levels. Informed by neuroscience, psychology, as well as leadership science, it explains how integrating and properly balancing two key focal points of management--the tasks at hand and the concerns of others and self--can facilitate decision-making, partnering with diverse colleagues, and handling of crises and conflicts. Case examples, a self-test, friendly calls for reflection, and practical exercises provide readers with varied opportunities to assess, support, and evoke their readiness to apply these real-world concepts to their own style and preferences. Together, these chapters demonstrate the best outcomes of collaborative communication: greater effectiveness, deeper empathy with improved emotional fulfillment, and lasting positive change. Included in the coverage: ʺ As a manager, can I be human? Using the two-agenda approach for more effective--and humane--management. ʺ Being and becoming a person-centered leader and manager in a crisis environment. ʺ Methods for transforming communication: dialogue. ʺ Open Case: A new setting for problem-solving in teams. ʺ Integrating the two agendas in agile management. ʺ Tasks and people: what neuroscience reveals about managing both more effectively. ʺ Transforming communication in multicultural contexts for better understanding across cultures. As a skill-building resource, Transforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork offers particular value: ʺ to diverse business professionals, including managers, leaders, and team members seeking to become more effective ʺ business consultants and coaches working with people in executive positions and/or teams ʺ leaders and members of multi-national teams ʺ executives, decision makers and organizational developers ʺ instructors and students of courses on effective communication, social and professional skills, human resources, communication and digital media, leadership, teamwork, and related subjects.