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leaders and executives, which can have a positive impact on their level
of performance, commitment, focus, and with the alignment between
the individual’s personal goals and those of the organization.
We use guided self-assessments to have leaders understand who
they are and recognize the impact they have on others. Our goal is
not to turn them into leaders, but rather to create an environment
where they learn to be more aware of their own behaviors/traits and
to understand how their intentions and actions can make them either
assets or liabilities to themselves and their organization. Once they
have that level of awareness, they are equipped to accept account-
ability for their behavior and impact, and they have what they need
to make leaders of themselves.

Taking Action For Knowing and Being Yourself

Here is an example of someone who learned and applied how to re-
frame her self image and belief system. She was a successful physician
and saw herself as competently independent. She had all the exper-
tise to work independently and make all the right decisions.
While she was passionate about her profession and the kind of
work she did, she worked long hours and had no personal life. She
realized she had to make a decision—did she want to stay in the role
as a physician and give up her work/life balance or did she want to
reshape her role working in an industry where she might actually
have a better personal life. She had always believed that she would
be a great physician and wondered how she could ever reshape her
role into something as different as working as a leader in industry.
When she received a job offer from a major bio tech company, she
decided to take on the new challenge of heading up an important
area of their research department. She soon realized that what would
make her successful in her new job was quite different in her past role