Executive Coaching for Narcissistic Leaders
Are you working in an organization where leaders display well-developed emotional intelligence and socially intelligence competence? Do the leaders in your organization inspire others to create a desired future?
One of the most powerful questions one can ask oneself is “Do I have a strong vision for the future?” Inspiring leaders infuse followers with energy and hope for a better future.
Are you a leader who has an inspiring leadership style? Are you able to create a high performance workplace by creating a workplace where employees are fully engaged and leaders inspire people to achieve great results?
In these unsettling times, large corporations are turning to strong leaders to create the future, rather than merely anticipating it. There’s no substitute for strong personalities when it comes to taking charge and dealing with uncertainty as the only certainty.
But strong leaders often display a narcissistic personality style, with all of the strengths and weaknesses that come with it.
A close look at how CEOs’ leadership styles and personalities have evolved over the last 50 years reveals a definite trend toward selecting narcissistic leaders, a personality type marked by visionary charisma and originally defined by Sigmund Freud.
For the most part, executives from the 1950s through the 1980s kept low profiles. When they did make comments, they were carefully vetted by corporate PR and legal departments.
Today’s CEOs, however, emulate superstars like Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Steve Jobs and Jack Welch. They hire their own publicists, write books, give interviews and actively promote their personal philosophies.
Their faces appear on the covers of BusinessWeek, TIME, The Economist and Fast Company. They strive to become shapers of their unique brands of leadership style and management philosophy. They advise schools on what kids should learn and lawmakers on where to invest the public’s money.
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 an inspiring leader who displays the qualities of visionary leadership. You can become a leader who models emotional intelligence, and who inspires people to become happily engaged with the strategy and vision of the company.
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