**Shortlisted for the The Leadership Book of the Year Award 2024 ** You may think it’s small stuff, but it has a big impact. Great leadership is about people: connecting with them and inspiring them to perform at their best. But leaders under pressure tend to focus on tasks, to-do lists and deadlines. The result? Teams are disengaged, performance and productivity are below expectations, morale is low. Building relationships isn’t a one-off task. It happens through every single interaction, and we aren’t paying those everyday moments nearly enough attention. Do Sweat the Small Stuff challenges you to notice and own the profound impact of your micro-interactions. To explore how your speaking and listening, your habits and your behaviours affect those around you, whether you realize or not. Finally, it reveals how to reinvent those interactions to reshape how you show up as a leader and build trusting, productive relationships with your people. Sarah Langslow distils more than two decades of hands-on experience building effective leadership skills and behaviours in the corporate and sporting world and as an executive coach into an actionable plan for sustainable transformation. This book provides great insight into our day-to-day interactions and how we can improve on it by focusing on the detail, and making sure each individual and interactions counts. One of the standout features of the book is its combination of theoretical frameworks with practical steps and thought exercises, which are easy to follow and highly effective. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to enhance their everyday interactions as a leader and a make an overall positive impact in their lives, organisations and society. - Amazon 5 * Flips a common script on its head - the script that tells us that we are defined in big moments of our life. The author suggests that rather than focusing on the grandiose we pay attention to the small minutia of our relationships, our day-to-day interactions and the way even the smallest of actions we take align (or don’t) with our values. There are many excellent examples and patterns described within the book as well as exercises and tools to practice and reflect on how these seemingly simple nuances show up in your own life. I felt like I was being coached by Langslow through the page! - Amazon 5 * I’m a sucker for books like this! Packed full of practical examples, in Do Sweat the Small Stuff Sarah Langslow has done the hard work of breaking down how to translate our good intentions into the words we actually say to make those intentions real and tangible. - L. David Marquet, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Turn the Ship Around and Leadership is Language As someone constantly searching for tools to become an effective leader this book by Sarah Langslow really resonated. Why? Because it made me stop immediately and think about the effectiveness of my micro-interactions with all the people I currently lead or have led in the past. Micro-interactions are vital in building and maintaining relationships, yet they are so rarely discussed. Do Sweat the Small Stuff raises your awareness as a leader of how important all these are for every person we lead and gives you tools to help you reflect and improve your leadership effectiveness. We owe it to the people we lead to use our leadership skills to grow every relationship, and for this to happen we need to understand these micro-interactions and use them to the best of our ability. I really think the rewards will be worth it. - Stuart Lancaster, Head Coach at Racing 92 Rugby, former Head Coach at England Rugby This is a brilliant read that challenges you to notice how small, practical changes can have a significant impact on yourself, your colleagues and the wider workplace. Essential reading for leaders, managers and teams who want to look beyond intentions to understand and improve their impact. If we all paid more attention to what this book highlights, our workplaces would be better for it. - Cath Bishop, Olympian, diplomat, leadership and culture coach, author of The Long Win Do Sweat the Small Stuff is a great active read (keep a pen handy)! The book offers a valuable lens through which to observe your own leadership, and a practical set of exercises and suggestions to intentionally develop your influence and effectiveness as a leader by focussing on the acute impact of your so-called micro-interactions. - David Singleton, CTO of Stripe For managers, aspiring leaders, or anyone with an eye on the executive suite, Sarah Langslow has created a vibrant road map to leadership effectiveness and high-performing teams. Packed with practical advice, Do Sweat the Small Stuff charts an actionable path to creating healthy workplace cultures and strong organizational outcomes. I’ve had the joy to lead high performing teams across some of the world’s top organisations, and I think Sarah has written the leadership, management, and cu