The Emerging Leader in You: Full 4-Part Series

Explore self-leadership by leading yourself to personal success and building six skills: understand yourself, trust your abilities, adjust your locus of control, master emotions, integrity, and help others.

Understand yourself by identifying strengths and limitations; use 360-degree, Strengthsfinder, and emotional intelligence assessments to align self-perception with reality and avoid the Peter Principle.

Discover your leadership strengths, acknowledge and own them, and trust you can become a high performance leader. Make decisive, credible decisions to inspire and guide groups, regardless of personality type.

Explore locus of control and distinguish internal and external loci. Learn to shift to an internal mindset to own choices and respond to challenges.

Master your emotions by developing impulse control and metacognitive agency to choose constructive responses, cultivate emotional intelligence, and lead with integrity.

Live by your values with integrity to honesty, inclusion, and reliability, and keep commitments to build trust and help others improve and succeed.

Develop a growth mindset that fuels helping others grow and improve. Embrace an outward mindset and authentic care to drive high-performance leadership and a vision of a future worth pursuing.

Develop a vivid, inspiring vision that guides leaders and teams toward a worthwhile future, uniting people with a clear personal and organizational purpose.

Learn to craft a compelling vision with clarity, value, and faith, then follow steps to define a specific, concise vision and keep it a living guide.

Discover the power of a clear vision through two stories— Florence Chadwick’s fogged swim and wartime pilots— and learn how future-oriented vision fuels leadership with an outward mindset.

Discover how an outward mindset drives leadership effectiveness by prioritizing others, reducing inward distractions, and improving culture, engagement, and organizational change outcomes.

Develop an outward mindset by applying metacognitive agency to prioritize others' needs. Learn the differences from inward mindsets and review Ford's $17 billion turnaround under Alan Mulally.

Identify how inward mindsets fuel self-betrayal and vain imaginations, creating distance, then adopt an outward mindset to build happier, more connected relationships.

Turn your mindset outward to elevate leadership by recognizing inward patterns, treating people as humans, and applying eight actions to foster an outward mindset that transforms relationships.

Embrace servant leadership by actively serving your employees to boost engagement, respect, and loyalty, ultimately improving customer service and business outcomes.

Develop servant leadership by aligning intentions with an outward mindset and cultivating ten competencies, including listening, empathy, healing, self-awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, growth of people, and building community.

Explore how the Cleveland Clinic implemented servant leadership to boost employee engagement and patient satisfaction, detailing the culture shift, training, and measured improvements.

Define employee engagement as emotional commitment to the employer, aligned with personal and company goals, and explore the Gallup Q12 to measure engagement and boost performance, retention, and discretionary effort.

Explore how engaged employees raise patient satisfaction and eight performance outcomes, from lower absenteeism and turnover to higher productivity, safety, customer ratings, and profitability, through servant leadership and Q12 questions.

Explore how to inspire self-motivation by leveraging mastery, autonomy, and purpose, balancing intrinsic drivers with fair extrinsic rewards to meet basic needs.

Explore human value and potential through anthropomorphism, recognizing how leaders unlock extraordinary capacity. Identify each employee's unique needs and career stage to honor autonomy and uphold high standards.

Explore situational leadership by diagnosing an employee's development level across four quadrants (D1-D4) and tailoring your leadership style to match their competence and commitment.

Diagnose employee development levels and apply the four situational leadership styles: S1 directing, S2 coaching, S3 supporting, and S4 delegating, to meet each person's needs and unlock growth.

Use the power of delegation to give employees responsibility, authority, and accountability, guided by a delegation template that fosters growth for development level four staff.

Discover how transformational leadership inspires growth, challenges, and culture by elevating individuals one at a time, differentiating from transactional leadership, and coaching for continuous improvement.

Learn when to coach by noting noteworthy behaviors, delivering private corrective coaching and public praise, coaching promptly, focusing on one specific behavior, and inviting a growth mindset.

Master how excellent coaches demonstrate egoless leadership, presence, and honesty while guiding a coaching conversation through six steps: establish agenda, clarify reality, explore possibilities, plan actions, identify obstacles, recap.

Master coaching demonstrations that turn praise into specific, actionable feedback and guide corrective conversations with both in-person and virtual employees. Build rapport, use concrete observations, and craft practical improvement plans.

Lead with emotional intelligence by balancing emotions and logic in decisions, and develop the five elements: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, social management, and motivation to boost leadership effectiveness.

Discover how to measure and develop emotional intelligence and emotional competencies to lead others, using a validated assessment, practical steps, and a leadership action plan.

Build your leadership action plan through self-awareness, envisioning your future self, and setting smart, high-impact goals to become a high-performance leader.

Set smart goals to turn your leadership vision into reality, writing them down to boost self-confidence, motivation, and autonomy; monitor progress monthly and adjust as a living document.