From purpose to impact
“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”
Oscar Wilde
Yesterday’s ‘command & control’ mentality is out. More than ever, success in business is about people. People working in our organizations today are deeply affected by the VUCA changes (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous). Modern leaders require an array of hard and soft skills. They need to be able to apply different methods and approaches to help their followers and organizations move into the future without fear.
People are longing for trustworthy leaders. Authentic leaders fill a void in an uncertain world. Authentic leaders lead from conviction; they are originals, not copies, and base their actions on their values.
Personal Mastery revolves around the idea that no matter what your leadership level or role, the critical factor to begin with is inside us. Before you can lead outwards, you need to look inwards. Leadership starts with you.
Coaching for leadership excellence supports managers and leaders to develop a sound level of personal mastery, create and lead out of a personal vision and relentlessly drive towards it every day, practice regular self-reflection and self-monitoring, understand their own and other’s feelings, behaviors and mindsets, be present, and accept only the best.
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Articles on Leadership Excellence
Leadership 4.0: Are you ready?
Today’s business world is rather exponential than linear. Speed is increasing. Many changes are of disruptive nature. Things can be true, and at the same time they can be false. What is illegal in one country could be legal in another country of the global village. There is not [...]
New work needs empowerment
Leaders, Do you need to control everything in your business? Are your people excessively reliant on you asking your permission for every tiny detail? How do you empower your people? Do you give them credit consistently? Leadership of today is quite different from that of Caesar, Plato, the Wilhelminian time, [...]
The Dark Triad or the fifty shades of gray in leadership
Leaders, How dark is your personality? Are you a manipulative person? Can you switch off your empathy? Are you completely obsessed with yourself? If your answer is yes, you might want to pay attention to your dark side. “Dark” leaders may be toxic but still be as effective as pro-social, [...]
Time to forgive
Leaders*, What are your strategies for releasing pent-up anger? How do you ensure you communicate from a place of empathy? On a scale of 1 – 10 (10 = all-time hero), how good are you at accepting people for who they are (including yourself) with all their peculiarities, imperfections, and [...]
FeMale Leadership is Beautiful
Leaders, In preparation for the “Inspired Women Development Series” that I will be launching together with LFM Coaching, Buenos Aires/Argentina, I have asked a few colleagues and experts in the field of leadership development and diversity & inclusion about their views on characteristics of male and female leadership and the [...]
What the best leaders need to know about teams: Safety first!
Leaders, Imagine you accepted a new challenging position that created as much apprehension as it did excitement. Of course, you are aware that more and more of today’s work is powered by teams and the execution of the company’s long-term goals heavily relies on effective collaboration. As the newbie [...]