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The Leader’s Guide: The Power of Leadership Assessments: Unlocking Growth and Impact
Leadership assessments are transformative tools that provide leaders with clear, actionable insights to enhance their skills, strengthen relationships, and expand their impact. When embraced as a growth tool, feedback becomes more than a reflection—it becomes a strategic guide. Feedback is leadership gold at its best, offering leaders a roadmap to refine their influence and make…
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A Leader’s Guide: Activate Your Leadership Strengths with Avatars
When coaching leaders aiming to make a real impact, I often suggest they try a simple yet transformative approach: embodying an “avatar” to practice new leadership qualities. This technique allows leaders to explore new facets of themselves, tapping into strengths and traits they may have avoided or not yet developed. It’s about becoming a fuller…
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A Leader’s Guide: Practicing Leadership Through Achievement – Making It Real
Achievement is not just about meeting goals; it’s about leading in a way that turns vision into reality through meaningful action, strategic thinking, and applied innovation. It’s about transforming ambition into tangible outcomes that inspire teams, elevate organizations, and create lasting impact. In its highest form, achievement becomes a cultural norm when visionary leadership aligns…
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A Leader’s Guide: Practicing Leadership through Innovation – Make It Possible
Innovation drives progress. It thrives in environments that reward courage and risk-taking. Leaders who value innovation create cultures that empower people to challenge assumptions, explore new ideas, and improve. I have worked with teams specializing in technical innovation across several industries. It’s a privilege. This includes coaching many middle-management technical leaders at Apple. People have…
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A Leader’s Guide: Practicing Leadership through Inspiration – Make It Believed
Inspiration is more than creating excitement or a sense of belonging. It’s a force that shapes an organization’s culture, energy, and creativity. At its core, inspiration is a path to a shared vision. It requires vulnerability, conviction, encouragement, and respect. Inspiration-oriented leaders don’t need to tell people what to do. They instill motivational belief in…
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A Leader’s Guide: Lead Reorganization with Grounded Strength
Reorganizations. They create a demanding and disruptive environment that tests leadership capability and stamina. The rapid pace of change can also overwhelm teams. Roles, responsibilities, and the company’s future become unclear. The unintended consequence? Doubt seeps in, lowering morale and productivity. It’s an experience we’d all rather forget. Yet, it is a chance to show…
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A Leader’s Guide: Influencing Through Practical Marketing Principles
Leadership is about influencing and driving change, which is not always easy. It can be disheartening and frustrating when pushback or indifference meets engagement efforts. When there is conflict, it’s a struggle to communicate in a manner that aligns teams and organizations. A well-intentioned, goal-oriented leader may screen out seeming relationship distractions while navigating challenges.…
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A Leader’s Guide: Choosing the Right Guide – Mentor or Executive Coach?
The demand for great leaders is high in today’s fast-changing corporate world. As organizations seek to innovate, the need for inspiring leaders is imperative. They must navigate complexity and drive results. But how do these leaders get the guidance they need to reach their full potential? This blog will explore the roles of an executive…
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A Leader’s Guide: Challenging Relationships at Work
Leadership isn’t about always being the cheerleader but intently managing relationships. Working with a peer who seems manipulative, unstable, or hard to deal with can be taxing. You start by focusing on your inner monologue, which is the difference-maker. Challenges, They Are Real Dealing with a problematic peer can drain your energy and cloud your…
Welcome to The Wisdom Post – A Leader’s Guide
Welcome to The Wisdom Post. We explore insights from my coaching work with leaders and teams to navigate the complexities of leadership. Each post aims to empower you and offers strategies to overcome challenges that test your leadership.
Every post ends with a Master Wisdom Key, a distilled piece of advice to help you lead with clarity and purpose.
