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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: Leadership is for Heroes and Heroines
In the realm of leadership development, there’s a powerful story map that has resonated across cultures for centuries—the hero’s journey. This path of courage, transformation, and achievement appears in everything from ancient myths to today’s best-loved stories. Rooted in Greek epics, Sun Tzu’s teachings, and modern figures like Harry Potter and Wonder Woman, the hero’s…
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A Leader’s Guide: The Impact Field Playbook for Leaders: Become Indispensable
Leaders who want a lasting impact must include their career and personal experiences in the development path. Leadership requires a strong, evolving development practice of engagement as we aim for more impactful attitudes and results. Yet, it also demands refining a leader’s core human qualities, their indispensable leadership elements. The Impact Field Playbook for Leaders:…
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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: 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…
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.
