One of the greatest gifts a leader can give their people is to believe in their potential. Provide them with tools such as the strengths assessment, offer guidance and invite them to contribute the best of themselves to the greater whole. Your people feel valued and want to become engaged in an interdependent culture where […]
Leaders Need to be Great Change Leaders
The most successful leaders embrace change as a constant norm. They innovatively keep their people engaged to stay ahead of the curve. These are critical competencies for successful, sustainable leadership. I see this across the organizations I work with and the leaders I have coached. It’s a common denominator no matter the industry. Over the […]
Social Skills: Technology Changes Human Interaction
Turn Around a Good-Enough Culture
If your organization suffers from a good-enough culture, take heart: there are steps that you can take as a leader in overcoming a good-enough culture. As I mentioned in a previous post, caring is linked to understanding. Author Chowdhury, in his book, The Difference: When Good Enough Isn’t Enough, suggests that leaders who apply these […]
Coach the Inner Core.
Lead from the Inside Out.
A coaching colleague of mine and I recently spent an afternoon examining, brainstorming, and developing meaningful leadership curriculum for a cohort of successful leaders who are dedicating a year to build their leadership capacity. Already successful technical leaders, our question is – how do we assist them in learning the value of reflecting on who […]
The 3rd Promise: Process and Execution
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 […]
Engage All Stakeholders : The second promise of effective leaders
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 […]
Effective leaders have a vision: Where are we going? For the sake of what are we doing this?
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 […]
2 Minds. 5 Leadership Blind Spots
Along my journey to unravel my blind spots I have explored multiple perspectives on identifying my blind spots, a few that I will share with you over the next few weeks. However, to understand the contributions of my strengths, their needs, their triggers, overuse patterns and my blind spots, I always return to the Strengths […]
Recognizing, Claiming and Managing Leadership Blind Spots
Through my Strengths Strategy coaches training I became intrigued with the many facets of my own blind spots. First, there is the obvious or habitual way of seeing blind spots – We don’t know what we don’t know. Then, Strengths Blind-Spots were introduced adding another dimension to my thinking about blind spots. These are the […]
Diana Gabriel, PPC