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The Time is Now to Evolve as a Leader
There’s a moment in every leader’s journey when the question becomes unavoidable: Am I really contributing something here—or am simply marking time? Maybe you’ve felt it in a team meeting that lacked spark, during a performance review that didn’t quite land, or...
The Profanely Sacred Leader: Finding Purpose and Meaning in the Ordinary
How today’s most impactful leaders are tapping into deeper awareness to drive results, resilience, and reinvention After years of working with corporate leaders, one truth has become abundantly clear: what drives us isn’t just what we know or even what we...
Leadership Is Self-Development—Whether You Realize It or Not
Here’s the truth most don’t say out loud: leadership isn’t only about guiding and directing others. It’s mostly about mastering yourself. You might have stepped into a leadership role thinking it was all about solving team problems, meeting KPIs, and helping others...
Are You Empowering or Enabling? How to Lead with Accountability and Respect
Have you ever found yourself tiptoeing around an underperforming employee, hoping the situation will improve on its own? Maybe they’ve been with the company for years, but their work is consistently below standard—or they stir up tension with colleagues and customers. You’ve probably asked yourself: How did we get here? The hard truth? If you’re tolerating poor performance or disruptive behavior, you’re not just managing ineffectively—you may be enabling it instead of empowering the person. If you’ve been walking on eggshells, ask yourself: What am I avoiding? What would it look like to step up and lead with courage today?
Unlock Stakeholder Perspective: Decode These 3 Key Drivers for Team Success
Your stakeholders define your team’s purpose. Yet, how deeply do you truly understand their underlying motivations? Project success hinges on grasping their history, perspective, and more importantly, their core drivers: values, loyalties, and potential losses. This isn’t just good practice; it’s essential.
Master Stakeholder Engagement: 3 Roles to Drive Team Success
Is your team truly connected with its stakeholders? Bottlenecks and missed feedback can derail even the most talented teams. Research in the Journal of Organizational Behavior reveals that teams with defined stakeholder engagement roles are 25% more effective. Why? Because proactive structure beats reactive chaos. Stop leaving stakeholder interactions to chance by using these four roles.
The Leadership Game-Changer: Why Self-Awareness Sets Great Leaders Apart
Leadership is a multifaceted role that goes beyond strategy and decision-making. At it's core, leadership is about inspiring others, fostering collaboration, and creating an environment where people thrive. Unfortunately, what most leaders fail to grasp is that...
How Your Attachment Style Can Impact Your Ability to Create Psychological Safety
Psychological safety is the cornerstone of thriving teams and workplaces. In fact, research shows that when psychological safety exists, individuals feel valued, collaboration deepens, and innovation increases. That makes it an important aspect of your team or...
How to Lead Confidently from Any Stance in Kantor’s 4 Player Model
Changing expectations of leadership effectiveness open up opportunities for you to lead confidently when you use your natural attributes, skills, and strengths to engage others on behalf of the team. Kantor’s 4-Player Model can help. When you lead from any stance in Kantor’s 4-Player Model, you demonstrate that there is a variety of possible ways to lead confidently, regardless of your natural communication tendencies.
Discover How to Enhance Team Communication with Kantor’s 4 Player Model
In today’s complex and fast-paced work environments, effective communication with teams is paramount for success. When your team understands the communication dynamics occurring during team meetings and even in ad hoc conversations, psychological safety can...