Tools For Every Day Leaders & Managers With Leadership Coach Kris Plachy

I coach female entrepreneurs and help them overcome their challenges. I have found that there are five key things that entrepreneurs struggle with. Here they are - along with their solutions. What you'll learn from this episode: The first challenge is failure to lead.  Second is failure to define the game. Third, not having very clear expectations as it relates to what you pay people. Fourth, thinking down instead of up and out. Lastly, not cutting the ties and continuing to drag parts of your business along that no longer serve the bigger goals you have. © 2019 Kris Plachy Visit: KrisPlachy.com Email: support@leadershipcoachllc.com Facebook group How to Lead @KrisPlachy on Twitter Kris on LinkedIn Produced by Podcast Prowess

For most women, when we are invited to study leadership the teachers, scholars, authorities and models are primarily… men. We are indoctrinated from the time we are born that men are the leaders and that natural male characteristics are the strengths you must also possess to be a good leader. Powerful. Strong. Authoritative. Direct. Assertive. Decisive. These and so many more are attributes that are typically associated with the male model of a leader. And so, for the better part of the last one hundred years as women have made their way into the fold, in a variety of leadership roles, we have learned and studied to walk the way of a men to achieve success. Women dismiss their own knowing because we’ve been so indoctrinated in male leadership models. We dismiss what we know for what others tell us to be and how to be seen. There is another way to lead. To be in alignment. To not feel like an imposter. It’s time for the reimagining of leadership. That’s not to disparage any of the progress that has come before