“Rediscovering the secrets to creating lasting value.” This is the subtitle to Bill George’s book, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value. The statement, “… creating lasting value” captures the heart of being an authentic leader. We need to ask the question, what does creating lasting value look like? What do I need […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Spirit of Appreciation in Building Trust
As a leader, you entrust your team members to complete tasks. You can do this by deciding that your approach to the task is right or you can trust your people to accomplish the task from their strengths lens or perspective. Adopting a Strategic Interdependence Mindset is a choice you can make to support and […]
Authentic Leaders Engender Trust
Being self-aware is not enough to be seen as authentic and to engender trust. I’ve learned this the hard way over the years. Through using the Strengths Strategy model and becoming self-aware through my Strengths lens, I’ve been inundated with insights on dimensions of my Strengths that I now recognize I need to monitor and […]
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