When you’re a perfectionist or achievement orientated one of the most difficult things to consistently and authentically do is to be vulnerable and transparent about mistakes and failures. It takes a lot of courage to be authentically vulnerable with your team and the people you care about. Many of us worry about what people will […]
Can Optimism Aid in Resilience & Bounce Back
I have been fascinated with Resilience research. When I learned that resilience can be taught and internalized I became even more captivated as I followed the research. This has allowed me to offer my clients a path that strengthens their resilience and adaptability, building more grounded sustainability for their life choices. This increases self-confidence and […]
Leadership Resilience – The Art of Bouncing Back
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 […]
The Secret of Successful Leadership
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 […]
Effective Employee Development: 3 Tips from the Best Leaders
When people have the opportunity to take deep dives into their individual gifts, talents, and strengths they become curious and excited to learn more. I believe most people strive to be the best version of themselves when given the opportunity to do so. In turn, when you gift your people these opportunities they become more […]
Successfully Developing Your People
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 […]
Smart Leaders Develop Their People
Throughout my 18 years of coaching leaders, working with their teams, and facilitating strengths workshops, I’ve noticed how grateful and enthusiastic people have been about having the opportunity to push the pause button for a day or two to focus on who they are as a leader. For many of the participants, it’s one of […]
Leveraging Your People’s Strengths
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 […]
Leveraging Team Strengths
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. […]
Building a Culture on Strengths
We’ve been focusing on being a great leader of change. Through my work with clients, I’ve found that those leaders who integrate a Strengths Culture along with the process of change have more engagement and sustainable success. When people are asked to do what they do best throughout the change process they buy in, are […]
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