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How To Lead From Abundance
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Times of uncertainty are the perfect times to surrender to panic, greed, and a false assumption of scarcity.
How do we operate with abundance and love?
Watch this video to find out how you can lead from abundance and not scarcity.
3 Tips for Effective Leadership During Times of Fear
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It's getting a bit crazy out there. How you show up during times of crisis is pivotal, and determines what results we get.
Are we leading from fear or leading from love?
Check out this video and find out how we all can be more effective and productive leaders during times of fear.
3 Differences Between Leadership and Management
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Today, we're unpacking the difference between leaders and managers, and why we need them both. Watch this video to learn more!
What’s Your story? How do you Evoke Your Story?
When you design your story and engage in every part of your life, you start speaking from the core of who you are with purpose. Work gets easier, it's clear, it's fun, and you're in a more effective leader.Â
In order to evoke and design your desired leadership story, you need to know what your values are. I’ve lined up a few questions that will help you to better understand your values: Â
What gets you fired up and passionate?
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What needs are non-negotiable to be your very best self?
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What moves you?Â
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Who or what inspires you?Â
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What stories do you tell about that?
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What is your center? There must be something special inside. Look closer, what do you see?Â
What are you uniquely put into the world for?Â
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What makes you so fierce that you can't help but protect this thing in the world? What is your unique thing?
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In order to express your story, and then work to protect it. In order to fully engage in it, you must know what needs to be expressed. Where are you fee...
Improve your Leadership effectiveness and Prevent Burnout
In addition to decreased energy and feeling disconnected or cynical, burnout is also characterized by feelings of low accomplishment. Not feeling accomplished is a real and felt experience EVEN when we are effective.Â
The push to do better, achieve more, to be good enough or to get acknowledged creates more pressure and more work. It becomes a coping to fill a void or to continue to try to validate our worth. This feeling perpetuates a feeling of low energy, and not feeling connected when we hold back in our relationships or we work harder, which is exhausting.
Our belief in our ability to succeed is influenced by past results, feeling relevant, being recognized by others for our contributions, and encouragement and championship specifically from people we can relate to, who inspire us or who’s opinion matters.
When we are feeling effective, (productive, constantly learning, accomplished, successful…whatever word you would use for that feeling) we are energized. When we are energi...
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Kristen Truman-Allen, PhD, MS, RN, PCC
Kristen Truman-Allen is on a mission to ensure that every leader and the people they serve, live a fully engaged and integrated whole life. Kristen brings her experiences as Health Care Administrator, Emergency nurse, Outward Bound expeditionary learning instructor and Organization Development professional into her coaching for executives and formal leaders in organizations. With a PhD in Human Development and a Master’s in Human and Organization Systems, Kristen uses metaphor and intuition in her coaching of organizations and individual leaders to help them have the energy to integrate what’s most important to them. Kristen balances her family of 6, travel adventure, business and play and is passionate about evoking inspiration and impact in our world.