Exploring Five Core Leadership Capacities: Engaging in Courageous Conversations

Exploring Five Core Leadership Capacities: Engaging in Courageous Conversations - "What capacity do we need as leaders to demonstrate authenticity and build credibility and trust? One of the most critical is our ability and willingness to engage in challenging, sensitive – in a word, courageous – conversations. If we are leading for improvement, we are inevitably leading for change and can expect some degree of discomfort, disagreement or resistance along the way – whether on the level of the individual, or the organization. Change often challenges our deeply-held beliefs, and as John Kenneth Galbraith famously said, “Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof”. Open, authentic, truthful dialogue, in an atmosphere of trust and respect, is the key ingredient that makes meaningful change possible."

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