Coach John G. Agno is your own cultural attache; keeping you abreast of what's effective in leadership. People learn better and are positively motivated when supported by regular coaching.
PERSONAL COACHING Leadership onboarding coaching helps the executive adapt to the employer's culture, create rapport with their team and develop productive ways to achieve necessary goals.
SELF ASSESSMENT CENTER Leadership skills and style testing. Know how you motivate and coach people to gain success at work and in life.
WHAT IS LEADERSHIP? Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.
LEADERSHIP TIPS “The crux of leadership development that works is self-directed learning: intentionally developing or strengthening an aspect of who you are or who you want to be, or both.” Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee (Harvard Business School Press)
Successful leaders are adept at identifying and leveraging their strengths and those of their team. A strength is both what you love to do and what you are good at. Telling others your unique strengths is the first step to leadership transparency and authenticity.
How to discover your strengths is to take some leadership self-assessments and to ask others with whom you have worked closely. Today, there are a number of books available online or at your local bookstore that help you discover the foundation of your signature strengths.
Once you buy the book, you will get a unique code to take a self-assessment online. The website will then send you a list of your top five strengths with a full report of definitions. These strengths are unique to you and therefore should be used as the foundation of your leadership throughout your career.
Seeing ourselves clearly does many things:
• It allows us to control impulses and select the most appropriate behaviors.
• It shows us how to avoid reacting in negative and potentially self-limiting ways.
• Knowing our strengths and limitations makes us more understanding of others.
• Gaining an understanding of issues reduces conflict in ourselves and in others.
Being aware of the affect of your personality and default behavior on the people in your life helps you to engineer a better communication and leadership style.
There is one last point to make regarding discovering and leveraging your life signature talents. That is a strength, taken too far, can be a weakness. An example is "competitiveness" when taken to the extreme; means winning at all costs. Or when someone who is extremely "analytical" overuses this strength, it can lead to needing more information constantly before making a decision (analysis paralysis).
Here are some business bestseller books that you can read to learn how to be an effective leader.
"Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. in 2001 helped you to identify your innate signature talents so that you can build them into leadership strengths. Now there is newer (2007) business bestseller book called "Strengthsfinder 2.0" that utilizes the same self assessment.
You can find these books at your local bookseller or purchase them online.On the inside of the book jacket cover there is a unique code number to take the online Strengthsfinder.comself-assessment.
When you receive your top five "signature talents" report, you need to keep them in front of you so when a situation arises, you may refer to your top five signature talents and decide which to put into action when facing the new leadership situation.
Successful leaders are adept at identifying and leveraging their strengths and those of their team. A strength is both what you love to do and what you are good at. Telling others your unique strengths is the first step to leadership transparency and authenticity.
How to discover your strengths is to take some leadership self-assessments and to ask others with whom you have worked closely. Today, there are a number of books available online or at your local bookstore that help you discover the foundation of your signature strengths.
Once you buy the book, you will get a unique code to take a self-assessment online. The website will then send you a list of your top five strengths with a full report of definitions. These strengths are unique to you and therefore should be used as the foundation of your leadership throughout your career.
Seeing ourselves clearly does many things:
• It allows us to control impulses and select the most appropriate behaviors.
• It shows us how to avoid reacting in negative and potentially self-limiting ways.
• Knowing our strengths and limitations makes us more understanding of others.
• Gaining an understanding of issues reduces conflict in ourselves and in others.
Being aware of the affect of your personality and default behavior on the people in your life helps you to engineer a better communication and leadership style.
There is one last point to make regarding discovering and leveraging your life signature talents. That is a strength, taken too far, can be a weakness. An example is "competitiveness" when taken to the extreme; means winning at all costs. Or when someone who is extremely "analytical" overuses this strength, it can lead to needing more information constantly before making a decision (analysis paralysis).
Here are some business bestseller books that you can read to learn how to be an effective leader.
"Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. in 2001 helped you to identify your innate signature talents so that you can build them into leadership strengths. Now there is newer (2007) business bestseller book called "Strengthsfinder 2.0" that utilizes the same self assessment.
You can find these books at your local bookseller or purchase them online.On the inside of the book jacket cover there is a unique code number to take the online Strengthsfinder.comself-assessment.
When you receive your top five "signature talents" report, you need to keep them in front of you so when a situation arises, you may refer to your top five signature talents and decide which to put into action when facing the new leadership situation.
