Paul O'Neill

Broschiertes Buch

The Outer Game of Leadership

How to Unite and Inspire Teams in Times of Challenge and Crisis

Beschreibung

What if your team isn't waiting for direction-but for safety, signal, and story? The Outer Game of Leadership reveals the hidden choreography beneath high-performing teams. It's not just about plans or pep talks. It's about the signals you send, the tone you set, and the stories you help your people live inside. Because in times of challenge or crisis, people don't follow instructions. They follow unspoken cues. This book equips you to lead the system-not by controlling behaviour, but by shaping the atmosphere that behaviour breathes in. You'll learn how to: * Stabilise team dynamics using Safety-Embedded Structures * Generate real-time trust with Safety Priming and Co-Regulating Humour * De-escalate tension with Vocal Prosody, Third-Point Communication, and State Control * Read the room using Non-Verbal Acuity-posture, breath, gaze, silence * Align fragmented groups through shared stories, metaphor, and narrative identity This is the leader as steward-not of process, but of meaning. Drawing on neuroscience, behavioural psychology, NLP, and live fieldwork in volatile settings, Paul O'Neill offers more than 30 practical techniques to unify teams under pressure. Tools like Gold Seam Mining, PACE Surfacing and Unity BRIDGE help uncover what's unspoken, heal where trust has frayed, and align teams through a shared sense of purpose. Whether you're facing disengagement, complexity, or quiet collapse, this book shows you how to rebuild not just morale-but momentum. This is Volume II in the Neuro-Resilience Skills series, designed to follow The Inner Game of Leadership. Where Volume I trains your state, this volume trains your signals and systems-so your calm becomes contagious, your presence magnetic, and your message one the group wants to carry. If you've ever led a team that heard your words but didn't follow your energy, this book helps you lead what truly matters. Not just behaviour. Atmosphere. Not just action. Alignment. Not just leadership. Cohesion.

Autor

Paul O'Neill is trusted by professionals in business, heavy industry, medical and mental health, and elite sports as consultant, coach and guide. For more than twenty-five years, he's been doing exactly that: guiding individuals, teams and entire organisations through the thickets of change, chaos and contradiction with a calm intensity that refuses to settle for surface solutions.His leadership record spans continents and industries, yet his work never follows a formula. That's the point. Real transformation, he insists, can't be imposed or standardised. It must be built, brick by deliberate brick, in the language, rhythm, and logic of those who live it.Clients across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, North America, and South Africa describe him as 'visionary', 'invaluable', 'a lifelong friend' - though the word most often repeated is 'transformational'. Not because Paul performs miracles, but because he hands the tools over. He trains people to recognise patterns, to respond to pressure with composure, to build resilience that sticks - not just in the individual nervous system, but in the culture of entire teams.Paul's training and coaching in neuro-resilience skills, verbal and non-verbal skills, group dynamics, complex problem-solving, stakeholder engagement and adaptive strategic leadership has helped professionals across sectors rewrite their stories - by both negating the harsh effect change can have on the leaders, as well as by navigating their group through it differently. He's known for making the complex understandable, for challenging the status quo with warmth and rigour, and for turning the work of change into something deeply human and fiercely practical.He remains, above all else, a practitioner. Someone who steps in, shoulder to shoulder, as a guide; and he stays until the work is done.If you've reached the edge of what you know and understand, Paul is someone you want in the room.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lantern & Light Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9781764063968
• ISBN-10: 1764063961
• Artikelnr.: 74294224