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Can You Optimize Your Management Team?

June 24, 2019 by Diana Leave a Comment

Management, Team, Optimize, Abilities, Manager, Responsibility, Personal, Growth, Leadership, Effective, Quality, Mindset, Relate, Personality, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership, StrengthsFinder, Leadership Coach

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be exploring the critical role of managers. Consider this… Managers are 70% responsible for employees’ attitudes about their jobs. In what ways do you optimize your management team? Are you getting the most bang for your buck? Extensive research reveals startling conditions in typical organizational settings. Gallup’s State of […]

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Building a Culture of Gratitude

May 15, 2019 by Diana Leave a Comment

Focusing on what I have to be grateful for is my antidote for the dark places my thoughts can take me when I become discouraged and am feeling helpless about affairs of the world and humanity. To keep my mindset in check I make note of the things I’m grateful for. I count my blessings […]

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Growing Your Internal Gratitude

May 7, 2019 by Diana Leave a Comment

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I really like what the Harvard Medical School says about gratitude: a thankful appreciation for what an individual receives, whether tangible or intangible. With gratitude, people acknowledge the goodness in their lives… As a result, gratitude also helps people connect to something larger than themselves as individuals—whether to other people, nature, or a higher power1. […]

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Gratitude & Leadership

April 29, 2019 by Diana Leave a Comment

Over the last few weeks, I have taken some time to ponder my why and to live fully alive. The funeral or celebration of life for a community leader who died much too young stirred me, leading me to this discernment process. Then, within the next week, another dynamic community leader also died far too […]

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Leadership Resilience – The Art of Bouncing Back

December 10, 2018 by Diana Leave a Comment

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As a fan of Brené Brown’s work, I’m grateful for how her work has facilitated my reframing of what I have viewed as failures, allowing me to see how these experiences have formed my character and backbone as an authentic leader. It’s a struggle, at times, feeling as if it’s culturally counterintuitive to not feel […]

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Perspective Is Everything When We Fear Failure

June 6, 2018 by Diana Leave a Comment

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In our culture failure has been given a negative stigma. Instead, we should embrace failure as something to strive for when leading to the edge of our capacity and to be our best selves. Adam Grant, author of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World  said: “Throughout history, the great originals have been the ones who failed […]

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The Great Leadership Opportunity: Your Fear of Failure

May 15, 2018 by Diana Leave a Comment

Fear, Failure, Opportunity, Courage, Doubt, Insecurities, Confidence, Anxiety, Self-doubt, Character, Response, Weaknesses, Mindset, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership, StrengthsFinder, Leadership Coach

Recently we’ve been discussing perseverance. You can persevere but, as a leader, is there more to consider? Many of the remarkable leaders I work with demonstrate perseverance yet suffer in silence with their fear of failure, taking a toll personally and professionally. Over the next few weeks, we’ll take a look at a variety of […]

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Can You Develop Perseverance?

April 25, 2018 by Diana Leave a Comment

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It was confusing to me when realized that I have limits and boundaries to my perseverance because I felt like, yes!, I am someone who perseveres. This realization came when I was introduced to the Strengths Strategy model of coaching and came to deeply understand how all of my 34 strengths come into play in […]

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The Gift of Receiving Feedback

February 27, 2018 by Diana Leave a Comment

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Following the last few blogs on Creating Cultures of Trust, I think about an overlooked aspect of the trust dynamic—our openness to courageously offer honest feedback and receive feedback as a gift that helps us to be the best versions of ourselves. With the strengths package that I was given I feel compelled, at times, […]

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Happiness Can Be A Choice

December 13, 2017 by Diana Leave a Comment

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During the holidays the illusion that people are happy and family gatherings are a joyous time is the ideal that sells. It’s all over social media and marketers capitalize on it. Although there are many fortunate people for whom this is true, this is not the reality for a large number of people who experience […]

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