OUR APPROACH
Gifted
Leaders is a collaborative network of talented coaches and
consultants who can help you realize individual and collective potential. We’re
known for our emphasis on a positive, strengths-based, team approach that
capitalizes on the power of coaching and strategic collaboration.
Our unique
approach means we
understand
that learning to become an effective leader starts with examining your beliefs
and assumptions about leadership and evaluating your current leadership
mindset. It requires curiosity, a willingness to ask questions instead of
giving answers, and a commitment to do the reflective work required of all
successful leaders who realize that leadership development is an “inside-out”
journey.
GIFTED LEADERS WILL HELP YOU WITH ...
We believe
that people experience success when they
pour their lives into things that matter to them. They don’t settle for doing
what they don’t love. They turn their passion into performance, likely agreeing
with John Wesley’s statement, “Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will
come from miles around to watch you burn.” Success has to do with becoming
aligned with a cause that’s greater than the individual.
We believe
that extraordinary people, teams, and organizations are simply ordinary people
doing things that matter to them. The message here is that you
have it within you to live an extraordinary life. You have the choice to
embrace a personally meaningful journey, integrating your personal and
professional lives in ways that make a difference.
We believe
that healthy, sustainable societies require the creation of healthy, sustainable
organizations, and great organizations and societies can only be built by human
beings who can grow and create meaningful success. When you do that, you
have the potential to create an organization and a legacy that can serve the
world long after you’re gone.
Effective
leadership is a journey, not a destination. The path to becoming a better
leader is actually a process that can be learned and must be practiced. On your leadership journey, we’ll
serve as your expedition guide, walking side-by-side with you through unfamiliar
country. We believe that becoming a better leader involves:
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Becoming an authentic,
values-driven leader who is experienced as genuine and honest by others and
who inspires confidence from them.
This involves being open to the
influence of others and fostering an environment of safety and trust.
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Developing emotional intelligence and effective interpersonal communication
skills.
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Understanding and acting on a new metaphor for leadership - symphony - where the
goal is to have “all voices sounding together.” Beautiful music
results when each individual musician comes together and functions
cooperatively to achieve a common purpose. Leaders must learn to tap
into the collective intelligence represented in any group of people while
bringing out each person’s unique gifts and talents. They orchestrate
movement from “me” to “we.”
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Taking a
more “coach-like” approach to leadership.
This means moving away from the old “command
and control” paradigm to a style where leadership is equally distributed
throughout the team or organization thus creating a culture of staff
development and
empowerment.
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Equipping
teams and organizations to have “conversations that matter,”
conversations about who they are “being” together, not just what they
are “doing” together.
We believe that better relationships lead to
better results.
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Connecting people to something much larger and more meaningful than themselves.
Leadership is about creating shared meaning which allows people to feel
connected with the mission and vision of the team or organization.
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Be a boundary crosser
and bridge builder, having the ability to handle creative tension and
paradox.
Today’s leaders must learn to reject either/or choices and become masters of
the “both/and”, seeking multiple options and
blended solutions. The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common
denominator among originators of breakthrough ideas.
There
is very little evidence that academic or conferential learning actually
changes behavior. Sustainable change and transformation occurs when
individuals are committed to making behavioral changes, interacting with
other learners, being open to coaching and accountability, and being an
active participant in their own learning.
In today’s
organizational settings, the complexity of tasks, the interdependence of
functions, and the rapid pace of change make it important, if not crucial, that
people work well with each other through an entire team or organization. High
performance teams make this necessary communication and collaboration seem seamless.
In a
connected, relational economy the key to success is not just an
individual matter – it’s also about teams. Team learning environments are a powerful forum for both individual
and collective growth.
THE GIFTED LEADERS
DIFFERENCE
The
curriculum-driven and text-driven approach to learning is deeply ingrained in us.
But in today’s world, students can now obtain more information over
the internet overnight than a teacher can deliver in lecture form in a
month’s time. The issue now is learning how to make sense out of and
apply all the information that is available.
We
believe that the traditional curriculum-driven approach to helping people grow is increasingly a
supplemental strategy to another approach: learning agendas driven by practical
life issues and informed by life experiences. The agenda is more and more being set by the
learner. We help facilitate the process.
Helping
people grow is about unpacking life, which includes:
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challenging our emotional responses that
are destructive (envy, bitterness, malice);
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challenging our biases (prejudice,
social and economic elitism, intellectual snobbery);
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challenging our assumptions
(believing that “my needs are the most important” or ascribing negative intent
to the actions of others);
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challenging our responses;
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unpacking our
frustrations, our hopes, our dreams, and our disappointments; and
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actively examining
our behaviors and actions.
As
your trusted thinking partner, we will help you find clarity, discover new
perspectives, make informed decisions, and formulate strategies to help you
overcome challenges and achieve your goals.
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