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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Gifted Leaders exists to empower individuals and to transform businesses and organizations into renewed workplaces with purpose, leadership and heart.

“The most effective way of leading, over time, is to lead from the heart.”  - Robert E. Staub, II in The Heart of Leadership

Defining Leadership

Everyone wants to work in a place where there is a high level of trust and confidence, where employees feel valued, the work environment energizes and excites people, and where each person shares the company’s core values and is motivated by its vision and purpose.  But what is the magic ingredient for creating a workplace like this?

Leadership!  But more specifically, servant leadership.  Servant leaders are motivated by a purpose larger than themselves and routinely seek to draw out the latent capabilities in others.  Regardless of their position, they create a positive and upbeat work culture that yields higher levels of team member satisfaction, creativity, and productivity.

"Purpose always serves - it is the manner in which we use our gifts to make a difference in the world.  Purpose is not purpose without adding value to others.  It is not self-expression for its own sake; it is self-expression that creates value for those around you."  - Kevin Cashman

As leaders, we lead by virtue of who we are.  True leadership and success in life come from first knowing yourself, choosing your behaviors and actions based on this self knowledge, then serving in authentic and genuine ways that seek to develop others and build trust.  Leadership success or failure is usually due to qualities of the heart.  And emotional intelligence - the capacity to both understand and manage the emotions of yourself and of others - provides the foundation for all effective leaders. 

Having answered the question, “Who am I?”, you must then focus on developing specific communication and leadership skills to address two additional questions, “Now, what am I going to do?” and “How am I going to do it?”  Building on your strengths, personality preferences and values, you must learn how to leverage the power of relationships to achieve high performance, both individually and collectively.  Success at work (and in life) ultimately boils down to the ability to connect with others and function as part of a team.

Leadership Development Services
  • TRUE TALK: Transforming Your Work & Life through Powerful Conversations

Want to become a Black Belt Conversationalist? 
Learn more about this high-impact virtual communications skills development program.

  • Leadership Coaching and Team Coaching

Want to improve your skills as an individual leader?  Want to significantly increase team effectiveness?  Consider working with a coach!  Check out our Coaching page and our TEAMS that TALK page for more info.

"Coaching is currently the most effective tool for professional development and is now used by people of all levels of an organization to attain their goals." 

Download a FREE e-Book: Liberating the Gifted Leader within You  Getting a coach is a great way to learn and grow!

  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Understanding your personality type and how it influences your thinking, behavior, and relationships will help you become a stonger leader - by helping you understand yourself better, manage your behavior better, and relate to others better.  Visit our MBTI page for more info.

  • Leadership Training

Want to initiate a leadership development program, build your team, or to create systemic change within your organization?  Check out our Workshops page for ideas.

Please Contact Us for more information about Gifted Leaders approach to leadership development and to customize a development program for you and your organization.

Our Philosophy

Our approach to leadership development hinges on the following three foundational areas, key characteristics of renewed workplaces:

  1. Core Values & Purpose
  2. Servant & Transformational Leadership
  3. Emotional Intelligence & Employee Engagement
More On Leadership

A values-based approach to developing and implementing organizational strategy is essential for effective leadership and organizational success.  As outlined in Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People, authors Charles O'Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer, share that truly successful companies begin with a set of fundamental values that are energizing and capable of unlocking the human potential of their people.

Before we begin to think about what the leader does, perhaps we should think about who the leader is, because a leader defines leadership in his or her own terms.  In the end, it’s the quality and character of the leader that determines an organizations performance and results.  Think about this in relation to the job of transmitting the organization’s values.  It’s not enough for the leader just to say, ‘These are our values,’  If those values are really going to permeate the organization, the leader has to embody them.”  - Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO of the Girl Scouts and chairman of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation

Read more about finding "hidden value" through a people-centered approach and the benefits and characteristics of values-driven leadership.

Being People-Centered
Values-Driven Leadership

Please also check out our Gifted Leaders Resources page!

"The most important assets of world-class 21st century companies will be what I call the 3C's: Concepts (ideas and technologies, driven by innovation); Competence (skills and the ability to use them, improved by teaching and learning); and Connections (strategic relationships, nurtured by collaboration).  These soft assets rooted in human qualities - imagination, courage, creativity, sociability, diplomacy, trust - will increasingly overtake hard assets as the most important source of a company's value.  Leaders of the future will continue to have a fundamental, enduring job of mobilizing individual talent in pursuit of collective ends.  But there will be more emphasis on encouraging people to seek change, share their knowledge about it and collaborate with other members of the extended enterprise to implement it effectively - which will stimulate further innovation, completing the circle."  - Rosabeth Moss Kantor
 

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