The Language of Authentic Leadership
Are you working in a company or law firm where executive coaches help develop authentic leaders who lead change? Does your company or law firm provide leadership coaching and leadership development for their high potential leadership talent?
One of the most powerful questions you can ask yourself is “Do I inspire people to want to change?” Emotionally intelligent and socially intelligent organizations provide executive coaching and leadership development for leaders who lead change at all levels of the organization.
How to Lead Change
There’s no lack of proposed concepts to answer this question. Many experts proclaim that leadership is solely an issue of inner conviction: You must find the leader deep within yourself.
Other experts encourage you to:
• Become the person others will want to follow
• Discover your strengths
• Increase your self-awareness, self-regulation and authenticity
• Become emotionally and socially intelligent
• Visualize to materialize
• Be true to yourself, and change will happen
In reality, sustained, enthusiastic change doesn’t occur by osmosis or extrasensory perception. Charisma goes only so far. If leaders’ own inner commitment to change is to have any effect at all, they must communicate it to those they aspire to lead.
Leaders’ actions speak louder than their words, but in the short run, it’s what leaders say — or don’t say — that has an impact.The right words can create:
• A galvanizing effect
• Enthusiasm
• Energy
• Momentum
• Sustainable motivation
The wrong words, or even words said in the wrong sequence, can undermine your best intentions and plans, killing an initiative on the spot.
Working with a seasoned executive coach trained in emotional intelligence and incorporating leadership assessments such as the Bar-On EQ-i and CPI 260 can help you become a change leader. You can become a leader who models emotional intelligence and social intelligence, and who inspires people to become fully engaged with the vision and mission of your company or law firm.
I am currently accepting new executive coaching and career coaching clients. I work with both individuals and organizations. Call 415-546-1252 or send an inquiry e-mail to mbrusman@workingresources.com.
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