Tag: Leadership Development

  • Influencing Yourself: Awareness Part 2

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    Your Reality vs. Actuality Your reality is what you make it, but that doesn’t mean it’s actual. Most people are not aware of the difference between their reality and actuality. They also lack awareness of how they let circumstances affect them at the core of their authentic being. Your reality includes a complex layering of… Read more

  • INFLUENCING YOURSELF: AWARENESS Part 1

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    Your life is all about you, but not the way you think. You don’t know yourself very well. In actuality, you’re a very complicated person. To be a person of influence is to be a true leader. You need to understand how you function and what influences you to think, feel, and act as you… Read more

  • CENTERED LEADERSHIP

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    The central self is not about doing but being. Being who you are is the first step. The second step is the doing. You have to be yourself. It is being who you truly are as a unique human being characterized by possibility. Zander and Zander further explain that the central self is concerned with… Read more

  • THE FOUR DIMENSIONS OF CENTERED LEADERSHIP

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    A centered individual requires the effective alignment of four constituent elements: personality, behavior, vision, and growth. Part one is how you influence yourself: personality and behavior. Your personality is the first constituent element and needs alignment with its four constituent components: your temperament, character, habits, and attitude, which become congruent with practice over time. The… Read more

  • A Leader Needs Leadership

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    The dynamic between being a leader and leadership is a fascinating phenomenon that is complex and abstruse. Being a leader and having leadership are dynamically different. A leader is a person who holds a position that bears responsibility for being accountable for achieving results, but in that position, they often confuse authority with influence. French… Read more

  • The Essence of Influence

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    The difference between influence and authority is significant yet clandestine. Deep down in the heart of the authoritarian leader is the realization that they don’t have what they need to influence people. Something is missing inside them because they aren’t succeeding like they thought or hoped they would. On other occasions, they are successful and… Read more

  • Understanding the Leader vs Leadership Dynamic

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    The dynamic between being a leader and leadership is a fascinating phenomenon that is complex and abstruse. Being a leader and having leadership are dynamically different. A leader is a person who holds a position that bears responsibility for being accountable for achieving results, but in that position, they often confuse authority with influence. French… Read more

  • Insights on Personal Leadership Development

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    In my thesis, I focused on the function of organizational leadership and the personal leadership development techniques claimed by leaders. Working with a variety of leaders, I gained insights into how leaders function. After sifting through the collected data, reading my notes on their thinking processes, reviewing methods of influence, analyzing their personalities, ascertaining their… Read more