Soundview Executive Book Summaries to Host Webinar with Alan Berson

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. - May 29, 2013 - PRLog -- Often the very same skills and traits that enable rising stars to achieve success become liabilities when promoted into a leadership track. While managers' conversations are generally transactional, leaders must focus on people, asking great questions and aligning them with the vision for the future.  
In this Soundview Live webinar, How Managers Can Become Great Leaders, Alan Berson will demonstrate that leadership mindsets and skills can be developed, and the Leadership Conversations Model provides practical guidance for connecting with others in ways that transform each interaction into an opportunity for organizational and personal growth. Learn more at http://www.summary.com/track/_/How-Managers-Can-Become-Great-Leaders.

Alan S. Berson is an executive coach, leadership consultant, speaker, and professor. Since getting his MBA from Wharton, he has held leadership, strategic planning and marketing roles at Fortune-500 firms including Gillette, Bausch & Lomb, and Marriott. He was also the CEO of a VC funded training company with Fortune 500 clients.

Alan is currently a Learning Director at Wharton Executive Education and the CEO of Leadership Conversation LLC. In addition to the team workshops and off-sites that he provides for corporate and government clients, Alan has taught and coached executive students as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business in the Executive Masters in Leadership Program (EML), the Georgetown/ESADE Global Executive MBA Program (GEMBA), the Booz Allen Hamilton Change Management Advanced Practitioner Program (CMAP) and an MBA course in Leading Change.

Since Alan understands both the business and personal development needs at all levels of management and leadership, he is an effective catalyst in creating alignment and achieving innovation and change for both teams and entire organizations. Alan lives in Potomac, Maryland.

Attendees will learn:

• The four types of conversation every leader must master: building relationships, making decisions, taking action, and developing others.

• An action plan for boosting your personal leadership potential, as well for developing leadership skills in others.

•  From the authors' rich experience coaching and working with leaders at a wide range of organizations, including NASA, the U.S. Navy, intelligence agencies, Boeing, Gillette, Bausch & Lomb, and Georgetown University.

About Soundview Executive Book Summaries
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.