Care to Dare
Have you ever been led by someone who cared for you like family, and dared you to achieve more than you ever thought possible for yourself, your organization, and even society?
Award-winning author of Hostage at the Table, George Kohlrieser, along with his co-authors Susan Goldsworthy and Duncan Coombe, explain how becoming a secure base leader releases extraordinary potential in others. Care to Dare shows you how to become a Secure Base Leader so that you release your followers from the fears that get in the way of their performance. It shows you how you can unleash astonishing potential by building the trust, delivering the change, and inspiring the focus that underpins sustainable high performance.
Care to Dare will take you on a journey where you will discover your own secure bases, past and present, and determine how you can be a secure base for other people in your life at work and at home.
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- An exercise to help you learn to inspire people
- Care to dare: Unleashing astonishing potential through secure base leadership
- Four principles great leaders need to remember
- How leaders can become secure bases
- Take control of fear and anxiety to be a better leader
- Надежная база. Лидерство для руководителей высшего звена [Care to Dare]
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- An exercise to help you learn to inspire people
- Care to dare: Unleashing astonishing potential through secure base leadership
- Four principles great leaders need to remember
- How leaders can become secure bases
- Take control of fear and anxiety to be a better leader
- Надежная база. Лидерство для руководителей высшего звена [Care to Dare]

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