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Training Your Managers

July 15, 2019 by Diana Leave a Comment

Once you have the right or best mix of people for your team do you tend to your own EI development? Do you offer your people opportunities to enhance their own EI? What do you do to create a people-centered, We culture? One that is focused on engagement with everyone as they contribute their very […]

Filed Under: Articles, Awareness, Capacity, Effective, Effective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, engagement, Growth, Leader, Leadership Coach, Manager, Motivation, Optimize, People, Skilled, Skills, Soft Skills, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership, StrengthsFinder, Training Tagged With: Awareness, Capacity, Effective, emotional intelligence, engagement, Growth, Leaders, leadership, Managers, motivation, Optimize, People Skills, Skilled, Soft Skills, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership, StrengthsFinder, Training

Executive Coaching : The Imperative

September 19, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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It takes courage to lead effectively. It requires a level of vulnerability that many of us are not comfortable with, yet it has become a necessity. By helping me fully claim where I am strong, using the Strengths Strategy model has led me to be more confident in naming, being open to and vulnerable in […]

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The 3rd Promise: Process and Execution

September 13, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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During a call this morning with several Strength Strategy coaches we were discussing what makes the Strengths Strategy model so effective and unique. One coach said, “Strengths Intelligence is a universal language” and I thought, “That’s it!” For me, there is something about diving in deep with the Strengths Strategy model that is like coming […]

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Engage All Stakeholders : The second promise of effective leaders

September 6, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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There is much written about the importance of feeling that there is meaning and purpose in our work. For those of you who have the Belief and/or Connectedness Strengths (like myself, whose Strengths are clustered in the Influencing and Relational domains) meaning, purpose and contribution to the greater good is a necessity in your life’s […]

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Effective leaders have a vision: Where are we going? For the sake of what are we doing this?

August 29, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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Fully embracing both the challenge and opportunity to lead with your eyes wide open takes courage. No one feels fully prepared for the breath of responsibilities and skills that are needed to successfully lead people and serve the organization simultaneously — I’ve learned this in my work with talented leaders. There is an art and […]

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Four Promises of Effective Leaders

August 22, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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Have you ever wondered — what makes a leader stand out as remarkably effective? Being a Strengths Leadership Coach, I am always curious about that question. I observe, I listen, I study and I ask a lot of questions, always seeking the answer to that question. If you want to be a successful leader, being […]

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Focused Conversations

August 15, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

motivation, conversation, focused conversations, drive, flow, A+ Zone, Strengths Strategy, Autonomy, Relatedness, Competence, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership, StrengthsFinder, leadership coach

Expanding my Strengths Intelligence has provided me with pragmatic approaches that have exponentially assisted me in strategically applying and leveraging my Strengths, allowing me to live and lead from the A+ Zone. I am amazed by the new insights that I continuously discover about how my top 15 Strengths dance together in different scenarios. This […]

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Motivating Without Micromanaging

August 8, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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The more I have come to know and deeply understand my Strengths the more sense it all makes now. How my Strengths dance together, what lit their fire in the places where I have flourished professionally, where I have floundered and how I do not perform well and am demotivated with I’m micromanaged. The careers […]

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Motivate Without Over-Managing

July 18, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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Over the past few weeks we have examined self-motivation. Now, what about motivating others? Could there be an overlap between what sparks self-motivation and motivation in others? What has changed in motivating others? Is this yet another area where change is needed to produce better results? How does Strengths Intelligence fit into motivating others? Many […]

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Awesome Self-Motivation: Ask Why. Then Act.

July 11, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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For me, being an entrepreneur has brought a deep sense of fulfillment and many joys – the autonomy to be my authentic self, living into my strengths and calling in my everyday choices. I have become aware of the truth in the statement, “You do not know what you do not know”. Other than the […]

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