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 […]
Authentic Leaders Put Values Into Practice
“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 […]
Direct Communication is Required for Authentic Leadership
To be an inspiring leader you must lead from the inside out and demonstrate confident vulnerability. Being confident in the gifts, talents, and strengths that you bring to the table and vulnerable with where you need help gives everyone the permission to do the same. Authentic Leadership encourages authenticity from everyone. This is part 3 of […]
Adaptability is Required for Authentic Leadership
We are living and working in times of rapid change. To be an inspiring, respected, and effective leader you must be a model of adaptability and authenticity. This engenders the foundation for a culture of trust. Your people look to you to build a culture of safety, security, and the opportunity to contribute their best […]
The Need for Authentic Leadership
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 […]
The Willingness to be Vulnerable
It is a great journey to become secure in being authentic and vulnerable with people outside of our closest circles. It certainly has been for me, coming from a family who held very private everything personal. I was introduced to Robert J. Anderson several years ago when I became certified in The Leadership Circle 360 […]
Raising Your Trust Quotient: A Life of Integrity
I recently had a long and difficult conversation with a client who is working toward creating a Culture of Trust in their organization. Committed and excited to make this happen in 2018, they are used to creating a plan for what they want and executing it with success. With their dominant strength lying in the […]
What Happens when Teams Avoid Conflict?
Working with executives and their teams is my privilege and honor. I’ve observed the best of courageous leaders who lean into conflict within their teams and experience amazing breakthroughs. I’ve also witnessed good leaders who avoid conflict and let the issues fester underground. Those issues are either pushed aside, leaving the team in ambiguity and […]
Earning Trust by being an Authentic Leader
The leaders that I coach tend to be self-aware, heart-centered leaders. They’re committed to making a difference and to leading from a place of empowering others to be their very best by employing their Strengths at work. These leaders desire the best for their people and for the companies and institutions they work for. While […]
Authentic Leaders Convey Credibility
This week has been a whirlwind of lessons in authenticity. Observing and pondering conversations and circumstances through my Strengths Intelligence lens has reminded, me once again, how very different our individual common sense is because it is informed by our unique Strengths. When I step back from a situation and attempt to understand it through […]
Diana Gabriel, PPC