Why Everyone Should You Become a Transformational Leader

Why Everyone Should You Become a Transformational Leader

These leaders who transform themselves into good role models achieve more at less personal cost to themselves, and often help their organizations transform in the process. This means that transformational leaders become capable of scaling their impact over time. 

To scale your impact as you move through your career (and certainly if you rise through the ranks) you must master the ability to empower others at the same time that you help them stay accountable to their goals. As you gain experience, it will enhance your own success when you learn to coach them to their greatest potential. Team leaders have the additional challenge of supporting others while also maintaining control over others’ output. 

Even with good role models, too many unaware leaders in your fast-paced world are teaching you bad leadership habits and you’re unwittingly passing them on to others when you struggle to manage change and overwhelm for yourself. 

To achieve great results by leading and influencing others you must begin by building career- and life-long stress management, emotional intelligence and communication habits that give you enough personal capacity to live up to your own potential. Once you’re living up to your own potential without burning out, you have the ability to truly lead others. 


I've worked with so many emerging leaders excited about stepping into their leadership potential, that I know the curiosity (and sometimes confusion) that comes along with aspiring to lead in this revolutionary way. 

When you're ready to step into your leadership potential, it means you’re ready to: 

  • begin learning techniques to motivate and enroll others instead of just telling them what to do 

  • become skilled at engaging others’ enthusiasm and personal commitment to their work so the team is powered up and there is less weight on your shoulders to personally do the work 

  • Transformational leadership is the best way to scale your impact and achieve more by leading others to their full potential, even when you’re not “in charge” of them. It's also a personal journey to learn how you can be your best at work and step into your own potential as a leader. 

  • Below are my go-to coaching tools for people those who want to master the fine art of empowering others to become your best self at work and engage the full potential of others. 

  • This approach will help you achieve a triple bottom line: personal career satisfaction, employee engagement and business results. Enjoy the journey! 

Career Coaching & Personal Brand Advice

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Introduction

  • A Message from Dana
  • PDF Download

Building Your Personal Brand

  • What is a Personal Brand?
  • Why invest in Your Personal Brand?
  • MISTAKE: Networking
  • TIP: Build Your Network into a Business Asset [Susan's Story]
  • MISTAKE: LinkedIn
  • Tip: Evaluate Your Success by the Opportunities it Creates for You
  • MISTAKE: Competing with your employer's brand
  • TIP: Align with Your Employers Brand [Amy's Story]
  • MISTAKE: Career-only Goals
  • TIP: Blend Your Personal Brand/Career Goals with Your Life Goals
  • MISTAKE: Your Comfort Zone
  • TIP: Dance Strategically in Your Stretch Zone
  • How Ali's Personal Brand Accidently Got Him His Dream Job
  • Personal Brand Checklist. [PDF]
  • Personal Brand Coaching Webinar

Leading & Managing Teams

  • Why Everyone Should You Become a Transformational Leader
  • 3 Keys to Transformational Leadership Success
  • MISTAKE: Anxiety
  • TIP: Detrigger Your Emotions
  • MISTAKE: You're Too Good
  • TIP: Engage Your Team [Joe's Story]
  • MISTAKE: Stop Looking to Role Models
  • #3 TIP: Challenge Yourself
  • MISTAKE: So Serious...
  • TIP: Humor & Gratitude
  • MISTAKE: The Wrong Stretch Zone
  • TIP: Find The Right Edge
  • Case Study: How Simon Snatched Victory from the Jaws of Overwhelm
  • How to Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Others
  • Transformational Leadership Guide [PDF]

Managing Stress & Difficult People

  • How to Use Workplace Stress to Create Career Success and Build Healthy Lifelong Habits
  • 3 Keys to Dealing with Stress & Difficult People at Work
  • Common Mistakes when Managing Stress and Difficult People
  • MISTAKE: “Venting” and Complaining When You Have the Right to
  • TIP: Detrigger – Early and Often
  • MISTAKE: Locking in Your Bad Habits
  • TIP: Reframe Success - Live
  • MISTAKE: Letting Your Overwhelm Overpower You
  • TIP: Revv Up Your "Right Brain"
  • MISTAKE: Getting Dragged Down
  • TIP: Let Difficult People Be
  • MISTAKE: Believing You Can Tough it Out
  • TIP: Manage Forever with Today
  • Pat's Trip From the Frying Pan into the Fire
  • Career-Life Balance Checklist [PDF]

Career Planning

  • Why Do Career Planning?
  • 3 Keys to Career Planning & Work-Life Success
  • Common Mistakes & Tips for Career Planning
  • #1 MISTAKE: Not Staying Competitive
  • TIP: Always Be Looking
  • MISTAKE: Overestimating Your Marketability
  • TIP: Job vs. Career
  • MISTAKE: Ignoring the Hidden Job Market
  • TIP: Focus on Exactly What You Want
  • MISTAKE: Under-Aspiring
  • TIP: Directed Dreaming
  • MISTAKE: Ignoring LinkedIn
  • TIP: See Your Next Job
  • Career Planning Checklist
  • What Cindy Learned the Hard Way

Looking for New Opportunities

  • How To Get Your Dream Job
  • Common Mistakes & Tips for Job Search
  • MISTAKE: Looking at Job Boards
  • TIP: Go for what you want
  • MISTAKE: Finding What You Don't Want
  • TIP: Don't Look Backwards
  • MISTAKE: You Updated Your Resume
  • TIP: Art & Science
  • MISTAKE: Feeling Desperate
  • TIP: Make a Counter Offer (or Just Say No)
  • MISTAKE: Paying the Bills vs. Being Happy
  • TIP: Believe in “both/and”
  • Sammi's Job Search Lesson
  • TIP: To get your dream job, you have to dream
  • How to Use Online Job Sites
  • Top 50 Job Sites InPower

Interviewing & Negotiation with the Boss

  • How to Interview for a Job & Negotiate Your Job Offer
  • 3 Keys to Ensuring Your Confidence in Interviews & Offer Negotiations
  • Keys to Interviewing Success
  • #1 MISTAKE: Expecting a Competent Interviewer
  • TIP: Walk in With One Piece of Paper
  • MISTAKE: Not Talking About Money
  • TIP: When to Talk About Money
  • MISTAKE: Not Making a Counter Offer
  • TIP: Do Your Homework--and Ask
  • Offer Negotiations Advice From Liesel
  • Interview & Offer Checklist [PDF]

Getting the Help You Need

  • Executive Coaching FAQs