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The Call: Lead Positive The More Human Way

Lead Positive The More Human Way

With Dr. Kathy Cramer & Terry “Starbucker” St. Marie

A series of 6 webinars that will show you howyour heroic journey can drive personal growth and help you reach your highest leadership potential.

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Summary

There comes a time in a more human leadership journey where something radically changes. Everything may seem okay on the surface, but there is a strong desire in you to move beyond the status quo. You just know there are better...

Why You Need to Learn to Lead Positive

If you or a leader you know resembles that remark, you will want to check out my chat with this week’s podcast guest, Dr. Kathy Cramer. Kathy is a business consultant and psychologist who has worked with clients such as DuPont, Starbucks, and Microsoft and more, as well as many educational and non-profit groups.

Are you ready to answer the heroic call to great leadership?

Have you signed up for myLead Positive The More Human Way webinar series with Terry “Starbucker” St. Marie yet? Better hurry, it starts back in just two weeks on January 22nd!

The Heroic Leadership Journey calls upon Joseph Campbell’s narrative framework to help leaders see their paths forward and navigate the predictable (and unpredictable) head and tail winds. It consists of six phases: The Call, Resistance to the Call and Meeting Mentors, Threshold Crossing, the Journey, the Supreme Ordea...

Lead Positive The More Human Way (Free Webinar!)

I am so excited about my new webinar serieswithTerry “Starbucker” St. Marie on how to Lead Positive The More Human Way!

If you don’t yet know who Terry is, you should!Terry is a writer, consultant, and startup investor living in Portland, Oregon. For the past 9 years he has published a popular blog featuring his “More Human” leadership philosophy, TerryStarbucker.com, frequently recognized as one of the “Top 50 Leadership Blogs.

Terry was also recently cited by Inc. Magazine as one of the “To...

Serving Yourself to Serve Others: A Heroic Leadership Journey

Today I published my Lead Positive Profile with Bonnie Marcus,women’s success coach and author of The Politics of Promotion on my Psychology Today blog.In the profile,we tracked the evolution of Bonnie’sheroic journey from kindergarten teacher, to corporate executive, to entrepreneur and successful business coach.

Here are some of the most inspirational quotes from her interview. For the full read, please go here.

Onself-promotion

Some people are better at promoting themselves, positioning t...

After Success, Four Ways To Keep The Momentum Going

You did it. You and your team set out to create change—whether it be implementing a new process, launching a new product, or transforming your organization’s culture—and you did it. Congratulations!

But now what?

Now you must find new ways to build on what has been achieved and extend the impact of what has been accomplished.

Four Ways To Keep The Momentum Going

Your finalchallenge as the leader will be to pave the way for thoughts, words, and actions that rise to the new higher level of per...

Facing Up To Your Darkest Leadership Moment (And Coming Out On Top)

As a leader,you will likely face many dark moments. One will stand as the darkest, and it will take your supreme resolve to shiftaway from the fear of failure toward a place of knowing that change can successfully be achieved.

The Supreme Ordealis thefifth phase of the Heroic Journey of the Leader.*This is the time when you feel stretched beyond your limits, tested against all your strengths and pushed to levels of break-through performance. It willmanifest itself towards the end of the jour...

How You Will Grow on Your Heroic Leadership Journey

The Journeyis thefourthphase of the Heroic Journey of the Leader.* As you can imagine, it encompasses the majority of youradventure in terms of time and effort.

As the leader, the challenges you encounter on your Journey will be the best problems you have ever had. Each setback will be an opportunity to eliminate what is not working and a chance to find what will work in securing the new vision. Have no fear, support will show up as you deal with each challenge and help will appear just when...

When There’s No Turning Back: A Time for Exploration and Discovery

The Crossing of the Threshold is the third phase of the Heroic Journey of the Leader.* Itoccurs when you takeconcrete, intractable steps away from the way things are and toward the way things can be. It is your first step to relinquishing the status quo and creating change.

Once you cross the threshold from “where youare now” to “where you want to be” there are no do-overs. The die is cast, and there’s no turning back.

No matter how much conviction you havethat you’re headed in the right dir...

Battling Resistance When You Know What You Need to Do

Most of the time, what leaders find the most daunting is putting themselves and their visionout there. Resistance in the form of self-doubt can be all-consuming and paralyzing, even after you know what you need to do and the rewards in store.

Resistance to the Call

Resistance to the Call is the second phase of the Heroic Journey of the Leader.* In truth, it takes real courage to overcome self-doubt and lead yourself and your team on a new path of transformative change.

You are probably aware...