“What is impossible is an answer, a solution, not yet imagined.”

The call to leaders today is to shake off the rust, the malaise…

  • It can’t
  • If only
  • I don’t think
  • I don’t have the time
  • Maybe
  • I’m afraid
  • I don’t believe

We need leaders today who inspire greatness, grit, and good old fashioned willpower to say these instead:

  • I can
  • I will
  • I know
  • I will make the time
  • Absolutely
  • I’m confident
  • I’m sure

It may be the time to gather your team and spend half a day doing these:

  1. Challenging one another to pursue what’s possible
  2. Shifting the narrative of your vocabulary to a leader’s vocabulary
  3. Pushing forward rather than making excuses
  4. Keeping the pressure on for creativity, innovation, and differentiation
  5. Being relentless in making change and pushing for high performance
I love what one company has on their wall as people enter the facility:
In our Unleash Healthy Emotions for High-Performance Teams program, we address the “I can’t syndrome”. We unleash critical skillsets like resilience, inspiration, stress management, well-being strategies, agility, and emotional health for today’s top performers.

Soft skills? No way.
These are hard-edge leadership performance skills.
Contact us about Emotional Intelligence programs best suited for your team
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“The purpose of Leadership Quest is to help professionals develop their personal leadership, vision and emotional intelligence. Everyday I strive to help leaders and teams achieve their desired goals in sales productivity, leadership, time maximization, and life-balance. ”

About the Author

Steve Gutzler is the President of Leadership Quest, a Seattle-based leadership development company. Steve is a dynamic, highly-sought-after speaker who has delivered more than 2,500 presentations to a list of clients including Microsoft, Starbucks, the Seattle Seahawks, Pandora Radio, Boeing, Cisco, Starwood Corporation, the Ritz Carlton group, and the U.S. Social Security Administration. He recently was voted #1 by the readership of Huffington Post as the Most Inspirational Leader on Social Media.

A published author on leadership and emotional intelligence, Steve resides near Seattle with his wife Julie where they enjoy time with their three adult children and six grandchildren.