Leading Talents, Leading Teams: Aligning People, Passions, and Positions for Maximum Performance

This is a must read for anyone who wants a better understanding of personality traits, both strengths and struggles, and how they influence team dynamics.

This book by Lee Ellis is both challenging and inspiring. Ellis attempts to describe the relationship between leaders and their teams in terms of personality traits and abilities. He has developed a test to determine each individuals traits based upon 4 different levels of criteria. He then spends the time in the book to speak of the positive and negative aspects to each trait. Finally he describes how the leaders need to deal with each trait. I found the book engaging and very descriptive. Ellis uses the model of a coach and this comes across in the book especially at the end of chapters where he lists off bullet points of coaching for the particular topic. The book would be excellent for anyone who is a leader in business, teaching, ministry, or any other type of setting who has to deal with a team and team members. Ellis takes his experience as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton in Vietnam to describe the way that many different types of people came together for a common purpose. He describes the challenges and the rewards of that effort. Great book.

Excellent book, it shows in a very clear way how every one, can improve his/her talents an can be a better team player and leader. I relly like the way Lee Ellis explanis people talents and how every talent has its positive side.

I work with executives and entreprenuers to experience maximum performance, career success and abundant life through continuous assessment, alignment and action steps that help them explore, educate and employ their gifts, passions and calling based on purpose-centered, whole-life planning. Leading Talents, Leading Teams not only provides insight into how people work best, but also develop effective leadership teams. Brian Ray, Founder, Primus Consulting

This book is fantastic!!! It has shone a new light on my struggles... with pinpoint accuracy. Detailed work is the mostchallenging for me. As a result of this insightful book - I repeat the "engaging" persons mantra often - "Focus, focus, focus" "No, No, No" & "Prioritise, Prioritise, Prioritise".It has also provided me the best framework / paradigm I have yet to come across on leadership (accomplish the mission and lookafter the people).