Collaborative leadership is the way for everyone.

Collaborative leadership is the way for everyone.

Jul 8, 2016 | Business, Coaching, relationships


When we think about our lives and the great ideas we have for ourselves, our families and our communities, what stops most people is that there is someone other than herself or himself who is needed to take the lead. Someone that looks a certain way, has a certain style. Today there is no exclusivity to leadership. No leadership profile or stereotype.

We are witnessing a new form of leadership among women, a new definition of power and what it means to empower. Men need not feel that they are being replaced. Rather, this is the time for collaborative leadership. What matters most is not what the leader’s gender is, how they look, speak or the color of their skin but rather what is being created — together.

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Making Choices

Making Choices

Apr 5, 2016 | Coaches Corner, Coaching, leadership, positively powerful woman

Having to make a decision can be tough work. Making choices is even more difficult. I am one of those people who see decisions as something that is brought to me and choices as something that is in me to take some action … or not. We don’t necessarily think deeply about the choices we are about to make, and we should. The things that haunt you and I are the choices that we wish we hadn’t made. The choices that were made absent-mindlessly. Like that tweet, released.

Here is my cheat sheet on Making Choices.

  1. Choose from the goal you have in mind. Then do it.
  2. If fear steps in after the choice, do your best to follow through anyway. Fear is just a feeling.
  3. A choice is something that is yours, no one can take it away from you. “It is not what you call me, it is what I answer to” is one of my favorite quotes about a choice.

If you are up to something (goals, vision, dream, etc.) and we all are, let your choices be consistent with what you say you are about, the story you tell in your imagination about the future you want to live.

Need help to align your STORY with your LIFE? Does any of the following ring true for you? Then let’s talk:

  • Life is good but I expected more.
  • I’ve lost the rhythm, I can no longer hear the music in my life.
  • I’m the best at what I do at work, but does it really matter?
  • Could a coach help navigate through all of “this”?

Being rigorous or mindful about our choices does not take away our spontaneity or creativity.

“Rudeness is the weak man’s (or woman’s) imitation of strength.” Eric Hoffer

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Modeling Leadership? There is no Blueprint

Modeling Leadership? There is no Blueprint

Oct 11, 2015 | Business, Coaches Corner, Coaching, leadership, transformation

Modeling Leadership? There is no Blueprint

Modeling is not a substitution for being real.

The idea of transformational leadership, leadership that impacts legions of people, is something that we want to replicate.  We want to understand the process of being great so that we can make a great difference. As an example, there is a lot of buzz about the movie “Steve Jobs” and his contribution to how we live now technology and leadership. Portrayed is also the difficulty he presented for those people who worked with him, that Steve Jobs was no saint. And yet for some people he was a pleasant and likeable genius. Human beings with a commitment can also show up like Mother Teresa. There might have had some moments where she was not so pleasant.

Ask yourself, what do Mother Teresa and Steve Jobs have in common?

Don’t get stuck mimicking or modeling style, it is not what has us do great things. There is no magic in the style of leadership, nor is following a set of numbers (15 keys to?) a blueprint for anyone’s success.

 

A Belief: Something that we hold to be true and act as though it is true. The core precepts and principles out of which we view the world.

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When you ask I will think and say, “Yes, of course”.

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