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 […]
Perspective Is Everything When We Fear Failure
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 […]
The Great Leadership Opportunity: Your Fear of Failure
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 […]
Can You Develop Perseverance?
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 […]
Happiness Can Be A Choice
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 […]
5 Reasons Your Projects Aren’t Being Completed
In management and leadership, you’ll often find that you’ll be responsible for overseeing or getting a number of projects completed. Project management requires you to be responsible for all of the moving parts within the project, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks and the project is actually completed. This is, however, much easier said […]
The Mindset of Effective Leaders
In the book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (HarperBusiness, 2010), authors Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown interviewed and assessed more than 150 leaders on their managerial practices. The authors divide leaders into two camps, based on the results they achieve: multipliers or diminishers. Leadership effectiveness can be judged on a continuum. The […]
How to Produce More with Less
In the book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (HarperBusiness, 2010), authors Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown interviewed and assessed more than 150 leaders on their managerial practices. Their research sheds light on the important differences between the geniuses and the genius-makers: It isn’t how much you know that matters, but the access […]
Choose Leadership (part 1)
Great leadership doesn’t require a diploma or a degree. It’s not reserved for some elite group of people. Leadership can be something for everyone to embrace, from administrative assistant to janitor to manager to CEO. Sometimes all it requires is a shift in mindset: interpreting frustrations at work as opportunities instead of barriers. Maybe it’s […]
Diana Gabriel, PPC