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Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
Spirited Leadership - 52 Ways to Build Trust by Ellen Castro is the first in the Dare to be Greater series for those needing to promote themselves in an ever-increasing environment of work demand. One of the qualities that makes the book credible is that it is based upon the author's experience of triumph through initial failure. The author believes that competence in the work place is no longer the single criteria for success. Rather, one must have leadership skills which require emotional intelligence in order to stay the course in an up-and-down employment world. Castro offers the reader fifty-two ways in which to build trust with fellow workers and management so as to make oneself highly marketable and relatively indispensable. The author's leadership tips are based upon the principles of Woodrow Wilson who believed that individuals were born into the world to enrich it and not just to live in it.
The organization of Spirited Leadership is superb. Castro had made easy-to-follow daily worksheets in which the reader is asked to define personal beliefs such as thoughts, emotions, attitudes, principles, and trust. To benefit from the book, you must define your own persona and how and where you wish to carry that image. You must dig down deep to define your own shortcomings and how they make you defensive. You will also learn to accept your own attitudes of comfort with confrontation and how your reliance upon others may be a highly necessary and productive process of growth. I found the book to be a positive experience in reading which will transfer to nearly all working situations, leaving the reader much more work-inspired.
