Conscious Leadership Scenario: The sum of virtues, values, and traits equals good character, which in addition to competence and commitment is one of the three ingredients that ensure a leader is effective and has gained respect from his team. For many senior executives, however, virtues, values, and traits remain indefinable even elusive. Leadership Fail: TheContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – Character + 3 Ingredients That Ensure a Leader Is Effective”
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Conscious Leadership – How Character is Extremely Critical to Transformational Leaders
Conscious Leadership Scenario: Are we only concerned about a leader’s character when it affects us financially? The current parade of scandals and setbacks that we are currently facing might suggest that we are. We might like to think that personality will carry the leader even when their character is questionable. In the end, it catchesContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – How Character is Extremely Critical to Transformational Leaders”
Conscious Leadership – Do They Follow You Because They Feel Your Heartbeat or Fear Your Sword?
Conscious Leadership Scenario: The Top Transformational leaders ask themselves this question each week, “If I was stripped of my title…” The politics of leadership – the power to punish and reward people. Would they still follow me? Would I still get results from them? Leadership Fail: We can become blinded by our titles, blinded to ourContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – Do They Follow You Because They Feel Your Heartbeat or Fear Your Sword?”
Conscious Leadership – Effective Communication with Your Team Through Your Heart
Conscious Leadership Scenario You’re faced with a turnaround situation in your organization. This troubled department is struggling. The morale in this division is very low. Do you slow down to figure out why the morale is low, and goals are being met, let alone aren’t being set? The teams are just wondering the halls waitingContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – Effective Communication with Your Team Through Your Heart”
Conscious Leadership – How Successful Conscious Leaders Overcome Resistance
Conscious Leadership Scenario: You’re well on the way to achieving your organizational goal through an extremely thought out vision, but something unexpected happens (imagine that). A cost overrun or a production delay. Vendors and suppliers are confused. Customers become unhappy. Employees start complaining as the problems pile up. Your senior executive leadership team is waiting patientlyContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – How Successful Conscious Leaders Overcome Resistance”
Conscious Leadership – How to Be a Confident and Conscious Leader in Uncertain Times
Conscious Leadership Scenario: In our decades of work with CEOs, we’ve seen many extraordinary and impressive business strategies. But what we rarely see? A CEO who has all the people they need to carry it out. In fact, we often see downright panic when it comes to the question of talent management, especially when it comes to Confident Conscious Leadership Talent. WeContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – How to Be a Confident and Conscious Leader in Uncertain Times”
Conscious Leadership – Senior Executive Communication in a “Never Enough” Society
Conscious Leadership Scenario: You’ve got a big vision for your company (usually established by your Board of Directors), and you’re building a team to get you there. But when your Senior Executive team gathers, there’s bound to be some misunderstanding. No matter how hard you work, try to improve communication; you wind up having toContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – Senior Executive Communication in a “Never Enough” Society”
Conscious Leadership– Life Is Too Short for Bad Organizational Culture
It’s all lip service until you develop, implement, and execute on a strategy Conscious Leadership Scenario: We spend a third of our adult lives at work. So, it’s no surprise that organizational culture matters deeply. 75.3% of senior executive leaders site culture as their main driver to pursue other organizations. Leadership Fail: Culture is delicate. It’s hard to build and easy toContinue reading “Conscious Leadership– Life Is Too Short for Bad Organizational Culture”
Conscious Leadership–There Is No Crying in Baseball nor Executive Leadership… Yes, There Is and That’s Fine
Conscious Leadership Scenario: About half of new executive transitions are considered failures within two years- but why? I’ve coached hundreds of struggling executives over the years, and almost every time, their failure is a surprise. The story usually goes something like this: They’ve been high performers their entire careers. As they moved up, they alwaysContinue reading “Conscious Leadership–There Is No Crying in Baseball nor Executive Leadership… Yes, There Is and That’s Fine”
Conscious Leadership – Mismatch of Current Talent and Future Strategies
Conscious Leadership Scenario: Business strategies are accelerating quickly. Digital technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics are all changing how we do business. These dramatic changes often force today’s leaders to be more reflective of where a business has been than where it’s going. As a result, the competencies of today’s senior executives don’t always align withContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – Mismatch of Current Talent and Future Strategies”