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Authentic Leaders Make Passion Contagious

September 24, 2019 by Diana Leave a Comment

Authentic, Passion, Contagious, Confident Vulnerability, Engagement, Fulfillment, Courage, Motivation, Contribution, Challenge, Inspire, Challenge, Confidence, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership, StrengthsFinder, Leadership Coach

Leading with confident vulnerability and inviting your people to courageously contribute their very best creates a culture of full engagement and fulfillment for everyone, even when there is risk of failure. Allowing your authentic passion to be present invites others to be vulnerable. With passion, courage, and grace we can all flourish, contributing the best […]

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Authentic Leaders Put Values Into Practice

September 19, 2019 by Diana Leave a Comment

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“Rediscovering the secrets to creating lasting value.” This is the subtitle to Bill George’s book, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value.  The statement,  “… creating lasting value” captures the heart of being an authentic leader. We need to ask the question, what does creating lasting value look like? What do I need […]

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The Need for Authentic Leadership

August 20, 2019 by Diana Leave a Comment

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There is both a need and a desire for truly authentic leaders. In this time of unrest we long for meaningful contribution. We want to know that our work and contribution has meaning, purpose, and impact on the greater good.  As a leader you have the opportunity to model authentic leadership, a leader who is […]

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How to Keep Your Managers Engaged

July 25, 2019 by Diana Leave a Comment

Engagement, Expectations, Demonstrate, Management, Team, Optimize, Motivation, Purpose, Relationships, Success, Recognition, Growth, Empower, Skills, Performance, Evaluation, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership, StrengthsFinder, Leadership Coach

Engagement is a buzzword right now and continues to be an important driving force for creating teams of excellence. As a leader or manager you must walk the talk of your expectations. What do you do to demonstrate engagement? This is part 4 of the 4-part series on Optimizing Your Management Team by Diana Gabriel, Certified […]

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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 […]

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The Secret of Successful Leadership

November 12, 2018 by Diana Leave a Comment

Learning, Teaching, Mentor, Goals, Needs, Wishes, Growth, Development, Confidence, Self-Awareness, Capacity, Advancement, Contribute, Engagement, Motivator, Input, Feedback, Progress, Ideas, Lessons, Insight, Support, Direction, Foundation, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership, StrengthsFinder, Leadership Coach

As a leader, one of the greatest gifts that you can offer your people is access to tools, knowledge, and opportunities that will help them build their capacity to contribute their best. It’s a way to ‘Give the work back to the people.’ It provides them the possibility for success and is a win-win for […]

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Successfully Developing Your People

October 23, 2018 by Diana Leave a Comment

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Over the past 18 years, I’ve had the privilege to partner with some amazing organizations that realize that prioritizing the personal and professional development of their people is the core, or heart, of their culture of trust and success. People are absolutely amazing in what they give back to the organizations that invest in them […]

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Leveraging Team Strengths

September 26, 2018 by Diana Leave a Comment

Organization, Culture, Teams, Synergy, Innovation, Motivation, Inspire, Learn, Unity, Results, Engagement, Inclusion, Innovation, Productivity, Empowered Team, Ownership, Pride, Enthusiasm, Interdependence, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership, StrengthsFinder, Leadership Coach

I attended the 2018 Minnesota ICF Awards honoring organizations and business that are integrating coaching into their culture. Each nominee spoke of the importance of focusing their development efforts on improving their organization’s culture in order to improve results. Aligning the right people with diverse strengths to problem solve and execute a plan is essential. […]

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Be A Great Change Leader. Establish a Plan.

August 30, 2018 by Diana Leave a Comment

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I’ve observed that the most successful change agents involve their people early in the strategic process. Their knowledge and expertise are valuable in creating the plan and early involvement builds buy-in to the process. Your people want to be a part of a successful endeavor whenever that is possible. It’s a feel-good experience all around […]

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Prevailing Over a Good-Enough Culture

October 18, 2017 by Diana Leave a Comment

In this final post on Good-Enough Cultures I’ll highlight two examples of Leaders who do not settle for good enough. I’ve worked with both of these leaders. Taking deep dives into their strengths and building their capacity as leaders was transformative for them in how they see their people and lead their teams. They felt […]

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