What’s the recommended reading order for Blue-Collar Leadership® books?

If you are a front-line team member:

1. Blue-Collar Leadership: Leading from the Front Lines (learn how to lead yourself well)
2. Blue-Collar Leadership & Teamwork: 30 Traits of High Impact Players (learn “how to be” while you’re doing what you do)
3. Change Happens: Leading Yourself & Others through Change (learn how you will benefit when you embrace, support, and leverage change)
4. Defining Influence: Increasing Your Influence Increases Your Options (learn the foundational principles that will make you a highly effective and exceptional individual)
5. Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team’s Potential (learn how to influence others without a position of authority while preparing for one)
6. Blue-Collar Kaizen: Leading Lean & Lean Teams (learn how to unleash a team’s potential during process improvement)

If you are a team leader/supervisor/manager/formal authority leader:

1. Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team’s Potential (learn how to become a leader worth following)
2. Blue-Collar Leadership: Leading from the Front Lines (learn to lead yourself well and discover a resource for developing those on the front lines)
3. Blue-Collar Leadership & Teamwork: 30 Traits of High Impact Players (learn “how to be” while you’re doing what you do and learn how and why this resource can be used to develop everyone at every level)
4. Change Happens: Leading Yourself & Others through Change (learn how you will benefit when you embrace, support, and leverage change along with how to lead and champion change as a high impact change agent)
5. Defining Influence: Increasing Your Influence Increases Your Options (learn the foundational principles that will make you a highly effective and exceptional individual/leader)
6. Blue-Collar Kaizen: Leading Lean & Lean Teams (learn how to unleash a team’s potential while leading a process improvement team)

If you work in a department that supports the workforce and their leaders, such as Maintenance/Engineering/Quality/Safety/Inventory Control:

1. Blue-Collar Leadership & Teamwork: 30 Traits of High Impact Players (learn “how to be” while you’re doing what you do)
   
2. Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team’s Potential (learn how to influence those who don’t report to you)
3.  Blue-Collar Leadership: Leading from the Front Lines (learn how to lead yourself well)
4. Change Happens: Leading Yourself & Others through Change (learn how you will benefit when you embrace, support, and leverage change along with how to lead and champion change as a high impact change agent)
5. Defining Influence: Increasing Your Influence Increases Your Options (learn the foundational principles that will make you a highly effective and exceptional individual)
6. Blue-Collar Kaizen: Leading Lean & Lean Teams (learn how to unleash a team’s potential while leading a process improvement team)

If you are a Lean/Six Sigma/Process Improvement team leader:

1. Blue-Collar Kaizen: Leading Lean & Lean Teams (learn how to unleash a team’s potential while leading a process improvement team)
2. Change Happens: Leading Yourself & Others through Change (learn how you will benefit when you embrace, support, and leverage change along with how to lead and champion change as a high impact change agent; you’ll also discover this is a great resource for gaining buy-in and for developing the mindset of those experiencing change)
3. Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team’s Potential (learn how to influence and lead those who don’t report to you)
4. Blue-Collar Leadership & Teamwork: 30 Traits of High Impact Players (learn “how to be” while you’re doing what you do and discover the value of using this resource to develop everyone in the organization)
5. Blue-Collar Leadership: Leading from the Front Lines (learn to lead yourself well while also discovering a resource to develop high impact front line team members who will sustain the gain)
6. Defining Influence: Increasing Your Influence Increases Your Options (learn the foundational principles that will make you a highly effective and exceptional individual/leader)