Starting Fast
A practical guide for new team leaders
Anna Inama
Andy Fryer
Description
Are you ready to lead your team?
Creating effective teams is pivotal for business success, yet it’s a daunting task for many leaders. This toolkit focuses on the first 100 days of novice team leaders, offering practical guidance to lay strong foundations, navigate challenges, and adapt in today’s dynamic environment. It emphasizes quick learning and adaptation for success.
Andy Fryer and Anna Inama are seasoned business leaders and accomplished executive and team coaches. With over three decades of experience, they accompany you on your journey, combining practical leadership insights with a deep understanding of team dynamics so you can step into the world of team leadership with confidence.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
PART 1
Chapter 1: What does it mean to lead a team
Chapter 2: What is the role of Intelligence in the Leader?
Chapter 3: What is my style?
Chapter 4: How much do I reveal?
Chapter 5: How Should I Steer?
Chapter 6 – When should I speak and when should I listen?
Chapter 7: How Can I Always Be My Best?
Chapter 8 – How can I support myself?
Chapter 9: How Can I Bring My Best Self to the Role of Team Leader?
Part 2
Chapter 10: Who is in the room?
Chapter 11: Why are we here?
Chapter 12: How will we succeed?
Chapter 13: How are we going to get to where we want to get to?
Chapter 14: How will we behave together
Chapter 15: What do we believe in?
Chapter 16: How do we want to work together?
Chapter 17: Who else are we working with?
Chapter 18: Summary and conclusions
Appendices : Research findings, supporting resources, bibliography, glossary of terms, acknowledgements
Editions
FORMAT / ISBN / PUBLICATION DATE / RRP
Hardback / 9781788607049 / April 13, 2027 / £34.99
Paperback / 9781788607056 / April 13, 2027 / £24.99
Ebook / 9781788607070 / April 12, 2027 / £9.99
Authors
Anna Inama
Anna Inama is a certified Master Executive Coach to leaders and their teams. Anna leverages her 20+ years of leadership experience in people focused roles in multinational corporations like Mars, L’Oréal, and Diageo, and her work is underpinned by her extensive coach training with a Masters in Organizational Development and Executive Coaching, and her multicultural background, having lived and worked globally. Anna partners with senior leaders and their teams for personal breakthroughs and to be their most impactful, authentic and effective selves. She is known for her trusting relationships, her presence and connection and her deep listening to ignite the best thinking, ideas and self expression. She helps her clients unlock the assumptions and limited beliefs which might be holding them back from being their best self, and partners with them to surface new liberating narratives and new choices in their decisions and how they show up. Anna is also a founding faculty member of the prestigious Wisdom 8 Executive Coaching programme, and works as an accredited mentor and supervisor to other Executive Coaches.
Andy Fryer
Andy Fryer is a seasoned leader and coach with over 45 years of experience of working within, leading and coaching teams. He spent 33 years as an RAF officer, including a year as commander of the enormous NATO base in Kandahar, Afghanistan – home to over 19,000 people and 300 aircraft and under frequent rocket attack. He then worked as an entrepreneur for a number of years and as Chair of the Board of a charity, before retraining as an executive and team coach. As a coach, he has worked with leaders and team across diverse organizations from National Grid through Novartis to Amazon, where Andy is known for his poised presence and ability to support individuals to navigate challenges independently. With qualifications including an MBA and postgraduate qualifications in coaching, he instills confidence and promotes growth through calculated risk-taking.
