Engagement is a buzzword right now and continues to be an important driving force for creating teams of excellence. As a leader or manager you must walk the talk of your expectations. What do you do to demonstrate engagement? This is part 4 of the 4-part series on Optimizing Your Management Team by Diana Gabriel, Certified […]
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 […]
Six Ways to Express Leadership Humility
Building the Muscle of Perseverance
There are times when I feel tired or discouraged, or that I don’t have what it takes. When I feel as though I cannot persevere I often turn to historical figures who did persevere for the greater good of others –the suffragettes, civil rights crusaders, early pioneers or my great-grandparents who immigrated here. This bolsters […]
The Power in Perseverance
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 […]
Do You Know Your Leadership Purpose?
The Three-Legged Stool, the core of my coaching model, ensures clarity, self-confidence, and success in realizing dreams and fulfilling goals. The Three-Legged Stool asks us to identify our core values, claim our innate strengths and articulate our purpose or our calling. There are very few opportunities that facilitate this process — becoming clear in all […]
Understand Self-Motivation
Motivation can seem illusive — you have it or you don’t. It can feel difficult to wrap your hands around it if your dominant strengths domains are not executing. The stronger your strengths intelligence becomes the more motivation tools you have available to you. For example, I have very few executing strengths but I know […]
Self-Motivation
Recently, I have focused on ‘Your Inner Game of Leadership’ and ‘Your Mindset’. Taking the time to reflect, to deeply understand yourself and how your strengths play together to best serve you and others is a basic first step to ‘Know thyself’. “First you will have to understand yourself, because the hardest person you will […]
Diana Gabriel, PPC