The Voice-Driven Leader (eBook)

How to Hear, Value, and Maximize Every Voice on Your Team

Jeremie Kubicek, Steve Cockram (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
286 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-394-15067-0 (ISBN)

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An insightful and inspirational team leadership guide packed with hands-on tools, resources, and visual aids you can use immediately

In The Voice-Driven Leader - How to Hear, Value, and Maximize Every Voice on Your Team, bestselling author, international speaker, and leadership consultant, Jeremie Kubicek, and Steve Cockram deliver a transformative guide to help you cultivate leadership at every level of your organization. It's a tactical, hands-on roadmap to turning teams into high-performing powerhouses, one team member at a time.

Kubicek and Cockram draw on decades of in-depth experience working with some of the world's most accomplished executives, leaders, and teams as they present their incisive 5 Voices framework. In The Voice-Driven Leader, you'll learn to understand your own strengths, adapt to your team's unique needs, and guide your people through a clear, four-stage development journey.

You'll find:

• Practical, step-by-step strategies you can apply immediately to increase your team's productivity and cohesion
• Intuitive walkthroughs of common, difficult leadership development problems-and solutions to frequently made leadership mistakes-that reliably solve challenges and overcome obstacles
• Actionable resources, including real-world examples and visual tools, that complement the book's voice-based approach

Perfect for managers, executives, HR leaders, and other business leaders, The Voice-Driven Leader is an invaluable and insightful framework for entrepreneurs, founders, team leaders, supervisors, and anyone else with an interest in helping the people they lead realize their potentials.

Jeremie Kubicek is the co-founder of GiANT and the creator of the 5 Voices, a serial entrepreneur and a bestselling author. As an international speaker, he has inspired and advised executives across the world, blending wisdom, emotional intelligence, and practical insight to transform the way leaders lead.

Steve Cockram is the co-founder of GiANT and the creator of the 5 Voices, an international speaker, and consultant to executives and global leadership teams. He is recognized for his expertise in personality, organizational leadership, and communication.

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Introduction
The Missing Playbook for Developing People

“I had no idea I was killing their potential.”

The confession came from Michael, a seasoned executive whose team was underperforming despite his best efforts. He’d tried everything he knew: setting clear goals, providing regular feedback, even going on an overnight retreat. Nothing worked.

What Michael discovered next changed everything: His effort wasn’t wrong, but his style wasn’t effective; he was speaking the wrong language entirely.

Like many leaders, Michael had been developing everyone the way he preferred to be developed. His Pioneer Voice thrived on challenge and direct feedback, so that’s what he gave his team. But his Creative team members needed space to explore possibilities. His Guardians needed structure and clarity. His Nurturers needed appreciation before correction.

His style was keeping a lid on his people.

Once Michael learned to speak each team member’s development language, performance didn’t just improve; it transformed. Team retention went from 60% to 82% in one year. Innovation metrics doubled. And Michael finally built the team he’d always wanted.

This isn’t just Michael’s story. It’s a pattern we’ve witnessed across thousands of leaders in organizations worldwide.

Let’s Face It: Developing People Is Hard

You’re sprinting to meet deadlines. Your boss demands results yesterday. Clients grow impatient by the hour. And somehow, in the midst of this chaos, you’re expected to transform your team into high performers. No wonder most leaders’ default to “just getting the job done” rather than investing in genuine development.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth: If you’re not developing your people, you’re placing a ceiling on your team’s potential—and on your own influence as a leader.

Most leaders don’t struggle with development because they don’t care. They struggle because they’re trapped in survival mode:

• They’re consumed with keeping the machine running.
• They lack a proven framework for actually growing people.
• They unconsciously lead through their personal style, unaware of the needs of those they’re developing.

The consequences? Development becomes sporadic, reactive, or abandoned entirely. Teams stagnate. Top talent disengages. Potential withers on the vine—and leaders wonder why performance isn’t improving.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Leadership Is a Language—Are You Speaking Theirs?

Most leadership development fails for one simple reason: It assumes everyone grows the same way.

They don’t.

That’s why we created the 5 Voices framework. It decodes the unique Voice of each person on your team—and shows you how to speak their leadership language, not just your own.

Because here’s what most leaders miss:

• If you’re a Pioneer, your bold vision and challenge energize some—but can silence others who process differently.
• If you’re a Connector, your enthusiasm inspires action—but might skip the structure certain team members desperately need.
• If you’re a Guardian, you offer consistency—but can overlook relational nuance or miss moments to encourage.
• If you’re a Creative, your ideas spark possibility—but your team may struggle to translate your vision into practical steps.
• If you’re a Nurturer, your supportive approach builds trust—yet you might avoid necessary confrontation when it’s needed most.

In short: Most leaders speak their native leadership language, expecting everyone to understand. But the best leaders—Voice-Driven leaders—adapt their approach to speak the language others can actually hear.

This approach follows the concept of the Platinum Rule—“Treat others as they want to be treated”—by Dr. Tony Alessandra and Dr. Michael J. O’Conneor.

Leadership isn’t about speaking louder; it’s about speaking the right language.

Voice-Driven leadership is what happens when leader adapt their development approach to match each person’s learning style, motivation, and maturity. It’s not about changing who you are; it’s about becoming fluent in the languages your team needs you to speak.

The Development Square: Railroad Tracks for Leadership Growth

Knowing someone’s Voice is just the first step. The next question is: Where are they in their development journey?

That question is why the Development Square exists. Think of it as railroad tracks for your leadership—a clear, sequential path that shows exactly where each person needs to go next.

Most leaders struggle because they’re trying to build the tracks while the train is moving. They have no map, no clear sequence for developing others. They jump from tactic to tactic, hoping something sticks.

The Development Square eliminates this guesswork. It shows you precisely how to move people from Unconscious Incompetence to Conscious Competence in their roles. It reveals when someone needs more Foundation before Immersion, more Empowerment before Multiplication.

When you combine the 5 Voices with the Development Square, something remarkable happens: You not only speak someone’s language, but you also know exactly where they need to go next. You can diagnose their current position and prescribe the right developmental approach.

It’s like having both a compass and a map for developing others. The 5 Voices tell you how to communicate effectively (the compass); the Development Square shows you the territory ahead and the sequence of growth (the map).

Together, they transform guesswork into a science—and turn good intentions into real, transformational results.

That’s the premise of this book.

This Is Your Playbook, Not Just Another Theory

This isn’t a book of abstract leadership advice. It’s a practical, field-tested guide.

You’ll master a clear system to:

• Precisely diagnose where someone stands in their development journey.
• Adapt your approach based on their Voice and current needs.
• Navigate them through inevitable struggles, including the dreaded Pit of Despair.
• Transform followers into owners—and, ultimately, into developers of others.

You’ll also learn to build a people-development ecosystem—where growth becomes your culture’s operating system, not just an aspirational value.

This book is about giving you our best so that you can be your best.

Who We Are and Why We Wrote This Book

After decades of leading companies, coaching CEOs, and training leaders across six continents—from Fortune 500 giants to nimble startups—and partnering with nearly 1,000 consultants and coaches along the way, we’ve witnessed the leadership development crisis up close. It’s not theoretical. It’s real.

As the founders of GiANT Worldwide, we’ve discovered a fundamental truth: As the team leader goes, so goes the team. When leaders improve both their performance and their leadership capacity and genuinely fight for the highest good of those they lead, team performance and productivity thrive.

Our life’s work centers on the “how” of leadership transformation—the applied leadership learning. We have dedicated our work to making the complicated, simple—to help leaders know what to do so they can become leaders worth following.

We’ve seen repeatedly that when leaders commit to knowing themselves deeply, understanding the Voice of those they lead, and speaking to others how they prefer rather than defaulting to their own style, everything changes, literally.

We wrote this book because we’re tired of watching talented people walk out the door due to poor leadership. We’re frustrated seeing well-intentioned leaders repeat the same ineffective development approaches, expecting different results. And we’re convinced that what the leadership world needs isn’t another theoretical framework; it needs a practical playbook that actually works.

Many of our readers and clients have asked for this level of detail. It’s one thing to hear us speak about these concepts, it’s another to have a field guide that you can methodically follow for yourselves. That is what this book does.

How This Book Works

This book unfolds in three parts:

Part I: The Development Crisis focuses on why development efforts so often fail—and how the 5 Voices and Development Square provide a better way forward. You will have an opportunity to go through a personal assessment and commit to the journey.

Part II: The Development Journey provides a detailed roadmap through the four stages of the Development Square—Foundation, Immersion, Empowerment, and Multiplication—plus guidance through the critical Pit of Despair and the Green Room.

Part III: Building a Development System explains how to scale your impact by creating an environment where development becomes systemic rather than...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: business leadership guide • Leadership Book • Leadership Framework • leadership guide • leadership science • leadership strategies • Leadership Styles • Leadership tactics • leadership tips • leading teams • Organizational leadership • team leadership
• ISBN-10: 1-394-15067-9 / 1394150679
• ISBN-13: 978-1-394-15067-0 / 9781394150670