Steer through the storm
How to communicate and lead
courageously through change
Award FINALIST
“An exceptional must-read for any leader responsible for implementing change.”
Janine Garner
International speaker, 3 x best-selling author, CEO Curious Minds Aus Pty Ltd, business mentor and host of Unleashing Brilliance podcast
Leaders! Are you facing a storm of change in your workplace?
Do you spend your days trying to implement and defend changes you can’t control and may not even agree with? Are your people anxious, confused, distracted, resistant or angry as they grapple with uncertainty?
Leadership is about people. Yet many leaders find themselves responsible for implementing change without ever being taught the foundations of HOW to support and lead people THROUGH change.
If you’re a leader challenged with navigating the rough seas of change, this book is your beacon.
You will learn a new approach to communication and leadership that will help you deal with the feelings of your people, improve performance, and get better results.
In her follow-up book to Soft is the New Hard: How to Communicate Effectively Under Pressure, communication and “soft skills” specialist Leah Mether gives you a plain-speaking, practical, step-by-step guide to help you lead your people through turbulent times.
Mether’s proven strategies will help you:
- Lead yourself and others through challenge and change.
- Build trust and connection when emotions are high.
- Support your people while holding them accountable.
- Minimise resistance.
- Defuse conflict.
- Communicate with clarity.
- Shift your team towards acceptance.
Change is challenging. But with this book as your guide, you will steer through the storm with courage and confidence. Leah Mether shows you how.
Download the first chapter of my latest book
STEER THROUGH THE STORM
This book is a must-read for any leader responsible for implementing change and ensuring that their team is their best selves through the process. Leah's insights are invaluable and her writing style is engaging, making this book an essential addition to any leader's toolkit.”
The change was outside my control - but my behaviour and intentions were not. People lean into leadership best when they use and manage their emotions to the best effect - and when they read and understand the emotions projected by the people around them. This book will help you do that.
Whether you are Steamrolling, Shirking or Steering, you need to comprehend how you are showing up and how that impacts your team and you. As the role of leaders continues to evolve more rapidly than at any other time in the history of work, this is the book we need. Leah Mether has written a practical resource for relationships of rigour.”
Peppered with the right questions to be asking and answering, Steer Through The Storm is a fabulous gift to leaders in our volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.”
Work with Leah
Steer Through The Storm workshops and programs
Teach
Steer Through the Storm: How to Communicate and Lead Courageously Through Change
One-day workshop
Train
Steer Through the Storm Intensive program
2 x full-day workshops
- Managing Me: Self-leadership through uncertainty, challenge and change
- Dealing with the Feeling: Leading others through uncertainty, challenge and change
1 x two-hour online accelerator
- Steer Through the Storm Accelerator to embed the learnings
Transform
Steer Through the Storm Ultimate Application program
Core program
3 x full-day workshops
- Managing Me: Self-leadership through uncertainty, challenge and change
- Dealing with the Feeling: Leading others through uncertainty, challenge and change
- Integration: Bringing it all together to embed and implement learnings in your organisation’s context.
1 x two-hour online accelerator
- Steer Through the Storm Accelerator to embed the learnings
Optional electives
Full-day implementation masterclasses for the ultimate application of the structure to your change environment:
- Create clarity – work with Leah to develop change messaging that provides clarity to yourself and your people.
- Connect with curiosity – work with Leah to identify how to connect with your people about your change and get curious about their feedback and response.
- Challenge with candour – work with Leah to develop strategies to hold your people accountable for their performance and behaviour as you navigate your change.
- Coach with compassion – work with Leah to create a plan for making time to meet with your staff and apply the skills of compassionate coaching conversations to your change context.
- Commit with consistency – work with Leah to identify how you can keep banging the drum of your change message in new and varied ways and lead your people towards acceptance.
- Create clarity – work with Leah to develop change messaging that provides clarity to yourself and your people.
- Connect with curiosity – work with Leah to identify how to connect with your people about your change and get curious about their feedback and response.
- Challenge with candour – work with Leah to develop strategies to hold your people accountable for their performance and behaviour as you navigate your change.
- Coach with compassion – work with Leah to create a plan for making time to meet with your staff and apply the skills of compassionate coaching conversations to your change context.
- Commit with consistency – work with Leah to identify how you can keep banging the drum of your change message in new and varied ways and lead your people towards acceptance.
About the author
Leah Mether is a communication specialist obsessed with making the people part of leadership and work life easier.
She is a speaker, trainer, mentor and author known for her practical, relatable, straight-shooting style.
With a background in leadership, corporate communications and journalism, Leah works with leaders and teams across Australia to help them self-manage under pressure, defuse conflict, build relationships of influence, and communicate effectively.
Her work is based on the belief that “soft” skills get hard results and no-one is a perfect communicator, everyone can improve.
Steer Through the Storm is Leah’s second book for leaders.
Her first Soft is the New Hard: How to Communicate Effectively Under Pressure was a finalist in the Australian Career Book of the Year Awards in 2020.
Leah lives in the small town of Willow Grove in Gippsland, Victoria overlooking Blue Rock Lake and the Baw Baw ranges, and is the mother of three energetic sons.
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