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Articles by Sheila Carmichael
How To Enhance Your Authentic Leadership With Coaching
Leadership is frequently defined as the ability to influence others toward achieving results. Authentic leaders tap into their unique style to make that happen. And when you incorporate coaching into your leadership style, you are able to maximize the potential of others to achieve even greater results.
How To Tap Into Your Authentic Leadership
Self-awareness is one of the greatest gifts you have as a leader. When you hold a leadership position, you must always be aware of how you show up for your team through your thoughts, actions and words—regardless of the challenges you’re facing or the competing priorities you’re juggling.
Strengthen Your Authentic Voice By Removing The Noise
Have you ever wondered how some leaders are able to speak with confidence and deliver their message with ease, even when they receive resistance for ideas?
Three Strategies For Authentic Decision-Making Leaders
Authentic leaders are true to who they are, while insincere leaders often make decisions that are inconsistent or contradictory. As a leader, you have many crosspoints to consider when making decisions. To guarantee that your associates, peers and others will follow through, you need to be authentic.
The Three Dimensions Of Authentic Leadership: It’s The Shoes
By activating your authentic leadership presence, you can increase your confidence, prioritize more efficiently, reduce stress, improve your performance and ultimately increase your influence and marketability. So, how do you increase your authentic leadership presence?
The Three Dimensions Of Authentic Leadership: Style Matters
How many pairs of shoes do you have in your closet? Or more importantly, how many pairs of varying styles and brands do you own? As you discover more about your authentic self, you might find that you have leadership traits that are underdeveloped or not quite broken in like a new pair of shoes.
Forbes Coaches Expert Panel Articles
How To Gain More Influence Within A Niche: 12 Effective Methods
Being able to influence people makes you more effective at work. If you work within a specific niche, it also helps if you are viewed as a subject matter expert in your field. Even if you don’t hold formal power in a leadership role, you can position yourself as a source of innovative ideas and advice to become someone your colleagues and industry peers rely upon for inspiration and guidance: an influencer in your space.
How To Get Comfortable With Not Knowing: 15 Leadership Tips
Company leaders often feel pressure to know the answer to every question that crosses their desks. When they don’t, fear being seen as unfit or unworthy of their title may lead them to respond in ways that diminish credibility instead of building trust.
16 Ways To Achieve Work-Life Balance By Setting Better Boundaries
A healthy work-life balance is essential to a successful career and a fulfilling personal life. While it’s important to set boundaries in every area of your life, including around family work and recreational activities, it’s also natural for these various aspects to bleed together, especially now that so many people work from home full-time.
10 Mindful Ways For Leaders To Beat Their Own Unconscious Biases
While it isn’t easy and often feels uncomfortable, learning to recognize unconscious biases within yourself is a critical step in becoming the most successful leader you can be. Attitudes and perceptions you possess but aren’t aware of may lead you to make unwise choices and cause members of your team to lose respect and trust in you.
15 Traits Of Successful People That All Business Leaders Should Cultivate
While there’s no surefire formula for success in every arena, the most exceptional leaders in business and entrepreneurship do tend to share a number of specific attributes. Fortunately, these aren’t intrinsic qualities but rather deliberate approaches that every leader can adopt.
Leaders have said …
Sheila is an exceptional thinking partner and executive coach. I had the privilege of her coaching over the course of six months. In that time, we explored a range of leadership challenges. Her questions helped me see opportunity, and her perspectives were invaluable and insightful. In every setting, I grew as a leader. Trust her, give her permission to challenge you, and invite her perspectives and you will find your experience equally rewarding -- and you will grow immeasurably as a leader.
~ Brian Maxwell, VP of Sales
I had the privilege of working with Sheila in the capacity of executive talent development, coaching and mentoring. She is not only extremely gifted in these areas, she has the ability to make the "connection" quickly with a team and provides valuable insight into the strategic component of getting the absolute best performance from an individual or an entire team. The best part of the equation is that she genuinely cares about the people that she is working with, and that creates outstanding results.
~ Randy Fortenberry, Executive Vice President - Global Supply Chain