Writing
If you have ever carried the pressure of being everywhere, solving everything, and keeping everyone moving…
This book was written for you.
In Leadership Under Construction, leadership coach and construction industry veteran Terry Barkman takes readers onto real job sites, into muddy trenches, power shutdowns, breakdowns, toxic hires, trust failures, and hard-earned rebuilds to uncover what construction crews can teach us about leadership, team building, communication, and sustainable growth.
Through gritty stories about micro-managing, toxic high performance, and overcoming obstacles, this book delivers practical leadership lessons without corporate jargon or polished perfection.
~ Dropping in 2026 ~
Leadership Under Construction is for the builder, the business owner, supervisor, team lead, and the exhausted high performer who secretly feels like the entire operation depends on them holding it together.
Inside, you will discover how to:
Build leaders instead of bottlenecks
Grow teams without burning everyone out
Create trust that is stronger than charisma
Cultivate Cool in high-pressure environments
Stop carrying the entire organization on your back
Lead through chaos, conflict, setbacks, and rapid growth
Build sustainable momentum instead of endless exhaustion
This is not leadership theory from a boardroom.
It is leadership with dirty boots, overloaded trailers, bent ladders, missed measurements, and crews struggling to hold everything together under pressure.
Because leadership is never “finished.”
It is always under construction.
Terry’s upcoming book is for Leaders who just want their teams to work well, and work well together!
The Sailboat Effect
Shows you how to use Terry’s Leadership A.C.T.ion system to turn Leaders into Team Builders so your people can do what you are asking, and you can give yourself the breathing room you deserve!
~ Dropping in 2027 ~
Why The Sailboat Effect?
Any time I invite 2 or 6 or 10 people out on a sailboat and leave land behind, we immediately become a team and that intentional commitment to being all in the same boat is called The Sailboat Effect.
There are so many different flavors of Team beyond just effective or ineffective, and this book is about how you can use The Sailboat Effect as a tipping point to clearly understand: What kind of Teams do you want in your organization? Then using the Leadership A.C.T.ion formula, Terry will show you how to create this kind of Team in your organization
What is Inviting Engaging Leadership You Can Align Your Team Around?
You want your Team to be motivated, focused, effective. And they will be when you invite them with new Team Building skills that create engagement and enrollment. Are you ready to Learn how to be the kind of inspiring leader Teams give their best for with Terry’s Leadership A.C.T.ion Formula?
Terry-Fied is about the courage to become your favorite version of yourself!
All Cover Art, Text, Endorsements etc. subject to revision. Still there is something powerful for me as an author to put even a place holder version out into the world that inspires more writing!
~ Proposed for 2028 ~
Creative Collaborations
A sequel to The Sailboat Effect is already underway. Terry is interviewing Creative Collaborators to explore how the same Team Building lessons we learn on the Sailboat shows up in Music, Dance, and Making Movie Magic!
