Author: Courtney Barnes

Influencing Without Authority

The ability to engage others and sway their perspective without relying on positional power is the best way to achieve buy-in and cultivate greater engagement in the workplace. Investing in relationships is the best way to build and sustain long-term influence, this resource gives you the tools to influence without authority.

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Leader as Coach

You’ve likely heard about the powerful impact of adopting a coaching mindset as a leader. However, mindset is only one part of becoming a leader coach. This resource defines coaching, explores its benefits, and offers insight on how to structure a coaching conversation, and highlights some tools to help structure your coaching.

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Beyond Urgency

Amid the speed, intensity, and demands of life, it is easy to lose perspective on where we are, how we are operating, and what is happening. Constant urgency can result in lower-quality work and increased errors because people are are focused on productivity rather than outcomes and impact. To move beyond urgency, it is essential […]

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The Neurobiology of Relationships and Leadership

While we all like to believe we make choices, our neurobiological wiring is so strong, it inevitably impacts the actions we take and our path forward. This resource supports understanding how this wiring drives our actions and to build the muscles needed to reflect before automatically reacting.

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Expanding and Strengthening Your Container

To be effective, leaders must proactively cultivate the agility to adapt and respond. Doing this isn’t just contingent on learning new skills but on building greater capacity. Building a bigger container with greater capacity is challenging, use this resource to build a bigger and stronger container.

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Energy Management

Burnout is rarely resolved without intentional focused effort. Unfortunately, burnout continues to carry a stigma, which prevents people from acknowledging when they are nearing burnout or already suffering from it. This resource will help you use energy, and explore how to rebuild resources and activate practices to create a massive ripple effect on the individual, […]

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Virtual Authenticity

Collaborations are the result of complex and interconnected social dynamics. How we perceive ourselves in relation to the world at large influences our choices, behaviors, and beliefs. Likewise, our behaviors and self-perception tend to be influenced by how we are perceived by others. Understanding these dynamics is essential to building effective collaborations. This will resource […]

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Head, Heart, and Body

Many of us live in cultures dominated by the head. We believe we can’t go wrong if we rely on logic, science, and rationality. There is also an assumption that if we think long and hard enough, we can figure anything out and make anything work. Unfortunately, when we over-index on cognition, we sometimes ignore […]

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