Authentic Leadership: Embracing Your Archetypal Gifts
Adult; Business & Personal Finance; (Market)
Authentic Leadership: Embracing Your Archetypal Gifts introduces 11 authentic leadership archetypal gifts and guidance on how to clear behavior patterns of outdated leadership styles. Authored by Angie McCourt founder, Authentic Me Revolution, tech exec, podcast host and app curator.
Do you find it challenging to lead others in a way that meets them where they are? Has it been difficult to navigate goal achievement? Are the old ways of getting things done not working anymore? Join the authentic leadership evolution. There is a way to clear away behaviors of outdated leadership styles to unlock the skills and capacities needed to drive cultural change and fluidity in business. It's time for our leaders of the future to transform now!
In this transformational non-fiction book Angie identifies the many outdated behaviors that impact how we show up authentically as a leader. She is an advocate to increase awareness, acknowledgement, activation and appreciation of our authentic leadership gifts that bring value to culture and business. Offering examples of modeling to identify, activate and integrate these gifts. This paradigm shift will change our future innovation, interaction, relationships and teams.
This is the second book in this series focusing on the current leadership evolution driving authentic leadership. How this time of uncertainty, unpredictability, non-linear timelines and swirling speed are requiring a need for change and expansion.
The book challenges old ways of how we behave in business where much of the tactics have been predictable or structured without flexibility. It explains the importance of breaking through behaviors, inner barriers and blocks that hold us back from building the skills and capacities needed in authentic leadership. With each block featured there is also a Make Your Shift exercise helping to break through the block and integrate change.
Highlighting skills and capacities needed to navigate change and inspire others on the journey. Leading up to a deep dive into the authentic leadership archetypal gifts that will drive innovation over the next few decades. Many of these gifts come from a place of dormancy currently in each of us. Set by outdated precedence and old structures categorizing these gifts as weak or not impactful. In truth, they are the most important gifts of authentic leadership needed today and well into the future.
Each gift is modeled with an example and outlined with impacts and challenges. The contributions made through interviews conducted offer impactful examples of how to integrate the gifts of authentic leadership and put them into practice. Now is the time to embrace the evolution and revolution to authentic leadership.
This book will….
· Bring awareness of the state of leadership evolution.
· Educate on outdated behaviors with tips to activate consciousness.
· Bring awareness of authentic leadership gifts that may relate to the reader.
· Provide real life examples through my own stories and observations.
· Offer stories of how real leaders practice authentic leadership gifts.
If you’re ready to evolve your leadership to utilize the skills and capacities needed to maximize team's experiences and meet them where they are at dive into the blueprint. Business, community and our world need your natural born gifts.
www.angiemccourt.com/loveyourgifts
Finalist
Plot/Idea: 9 out of 10
Originality: 8 out of 10
Prose: 8 out of 10
Character/Execution: 8 out of 10
Overall: 8.25 out of 10
Assessment:
Plot/Idea: McCourt delivers a thought-provoking and galvanizing guidebook for future and current leaders looking to improve their skills of communication, support their team members, and continue to strive for success in changing times.
Prose: McCourt writes in a clear, articulate style and with guidance that mirrors the type of leadership that she advocates for in her readers.
Originality: Guides to effective leadership are plentiful. McCourt brings a quality of nuance to the topic by examining how leadership roles evolve and change along with workplace expectations and paradigms.
Character/Execution: McCourt presents concrete advice about leadership models. She lays out a blueprint for achieving results, while highlighting outmoded or ineffective styles, and urging readers to embrace the spirit of compassion and cooperation.
Date Submitted: January 17, 2023