Soundview Executive Book Summaries to Host Interactive Webinar with Karol Wasylyshyn

March 27, 2012 - PRLog -- Sigmund Freud meets Peter Drucker …

In this Soundview Live webinar, Unexpected Lessons for Managing Your Boss and Career, Karol Wasylyshyn provides a revealing look at the behavior of top business leaders—and how the next level of aspiring managers can learn to navigate the political and personal landscape.

Based on over 25 years of psychotherapy and consulting experiences, as well as extensive empirical research, Karol Wasylyshyn identifies a dynamic continuum of executive behaviors that are manifested in three specific types of business leaders – Remarkable, Perilous, and Toxic. She describes these types in accessible terms to help readers (1) recognize these behaviors and leadership types and (2) leverage this information to increase their savvy and effectiveness in the workplace. Learn more at http://www.summary.com/track/_/Unexpected-Lessons-for-Managing-Your-Boss-and-Career.

Karol M. Wasylyshyn’s business career has evolved through the disciplines of journalism, psychology and management consulting. These merged disciplines provide the theoretical and experiential foundation of her consulting firm, Leadership Development Forum. This firm specializes in customized leadership development services for senior executives and high potential employees.

As a teacher, coach and strategist, Dr. Wasylyshyn has distinguished her work on three fronts: (1) executive coaching particularly CEOs, CEO successor candidates and other corporate executives, (2) the design and implementation of succession processes and high potential development programs, and (3) advancing the application of emotional intelligence in business.

Dr. Wasylyshyn, a licensed psychologist, began her career as a journalist in the publishing industry. She combines this business experience with her clinical training to create practical applications of psychology in business. Typically, her work involves long-term collaborations with senior executives and human resources professionals on issues of leadership effectiveness.

Attendees will learn:
•   That ineffective leadership behavior de-motivates talented employees, has adverse effects on productivity, and jeopardizes positive business results.
•   That effective leadership behavior provides the ability to tap into the needs and motivations of others and bring out their best performance.
•   The correct tools and exercises to help you identify the behavior traits of your organizations’ leaders –and hone your own approaches to achieve positive results.
•   How this practical guide helps in making important career decisions, such as whom to work for and how to develop one’s own leadership style

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Founded in 1978, Soundview pioneered the concept of distilling the key points and ideas of full-length business books into easy-to-read 8-page text and 20-minute audio summaries, helping readers maximize their time and business intelligence. They have continued to enhance the summary content with author interviews, interactive author webinars, and video interviews with executives. Soundview’s 100,000+ subscribers worldwide include CEOs, government leaders, entrepreneurs, business consultants, academics, and students. Soundview is a part of the Philadelphia, Pa.-based Concentrated Knowledge Corporation. Visit http://www.summary.com/new for more information about Soundview Executive Book Summaries.