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Why Know Your Strengths?

April 25, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

Self-Knowledge, Feedback, Unique Contribution, Personal Career Passion, Sustain Career Passion, Loss of Career Passion, Values and Purpose, Innate Strengths, Core Strengths, Acquired Strengths, Purpose, Coaching for Passion, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership

I was reminded, again, during a conversation with a friend and colleague of how we each have a unique constellation of strengths that show up and work together to be in service of the greater good for all. Each of you bring a unique constellation of strengths to contribute in service of your dream. Your […]

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Mining for Passion

April 19, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

Personal Career Passion, What’s Next, Sustain Career Passion, Loss of Career Passion, Midlife Crisis, Values and Purpose, Innate Strengths, Core Strengths, Acquired Strengths, Purpose, Coaching for Passion, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership

All too often I meet with people who have unconsciously fallen into living their life on automatic pilot, doing what is expected of them because they feel obligated. It’s easy to forget what brings us joy and satisfaction in our work and our life. People talk about feeling trapped or stuck in their professions. We […]

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Personal Passion : Exploring ‘What’s Next?’

April 11, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

Personal Career Passion, What’s Next, Sustain Career Passion, Loss of Career Passion, Midlife Crisis, Purpose, Coaching for Passion, Strengths, Strengths Based Leadership

You wake up one day and feel like you’re in a dead zone. You’re going through the motions, doing what is expected of you, doing the ‘right thing’ but not feeling the satisfaction that you once did. You panic a bit and ask, now what? This gradual and insidious loss of passion or purpose in […]

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Leadership and the Conflict Blind Spot

April 5, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

Leadership Blind Spots, Conflict Blind Spot, Conflict, Toxic Behaviors, Strengths, Strengths Intelligence, Coaching, Sustainable Leadership, Diana Gabriel

Conflict offers such a ripe place for our blind spots to hide. Through the strengths lens our blind spots can appear in different forms. For example, in my top ten strengths I have Command, Self-Assurance and Activator so I am comfortable with conflict and I don’t shy away from naming issues or calling people out. […]

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Values and Strategy : 2 More Common Blind Spots

March 29, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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One of the foundations of my coaching with clients begins with identifying their five core values – the values you typically assume you know. In my 16 years of coaching I have met very few people who have ever consciously participated in a contemplative exercise to examine what provides meaning and purpose in their life and […]

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Experience and Strengths : 2 Common Leadership Blind Spots

March 21, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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It may seem counter intuitive that there can be blind spots aligned with both success and the use of our strengths. Those blind spot traps can be seductive if you are unaware of their presence. I have experienced both. When I experience success because of the combination of my strengths I have a tendency to […]

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2 Minds. 5 Leadership Blind Spots

March 15, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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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 […]

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Recognizing, Claiming and Managing Leadership Blind Spots

March 9, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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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 […]

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Success with Goals: Override Excuses, Rationalizations and Old Habits

March 1, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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Create a new story for yourself. Reframe your story. These can be powerful tools to add ease to your experience of change. Being aware of the power of habits allows you to create and implement a plan for successful change. To assist in your discernment process and choose a starting place, ask – what is […]

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Can we Inoculate Ourselves Against Intention/Goal-Failure?

February 22, 2016 by Diana Leave a Comment

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So many of us have the mindset that change is hard. Sometimes It takes willpower and grit to make changes but there are tools and knowledge that can make the change process easier and less stressful. As I shared in one of my blog posts, I experienced an epiphany that changed a life long story I […]

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