Transformational Leadership: From the Insight Out
Transformational Leadership: From the Insight Out is for leaders navigating the gap between where their organizations are and where they know they could be. Hosted by Steve Chua and Pete Cafarchio, the show explores the inner dynamics of leadership—and how they shape culture, performance, and sustainable growth. Each episode delivers practical insights leaders can apply to move beyond frustration, overwhelm, and stagnation, and build organizations that thrive from the inside out. Because lasting change doesn’t start with systems—it starts with leaders.
Transformational Leadership: From the Insight Out
Moving Past your Pain
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Transformation Tip: “Turn your wounds into wisdom”. - Oprah Winfrey
Concept(s)
Consequences of unresolved pain form unhealthy mindsets and behaviors (the 10 saboteurs)
- The Judge: generates false assumptions resulting in selective hearing.
- The Avoider: directs attention away from the conflict, leading to a lack of resolution
- The Controller: self-protects and creates a fearful negative perspective of what can go wrong, restricting others and destroying relationships
- The Hyper-Achiever: constant performance. Get self-worth from achievement. Unsustainable. make you too goal-focused (miss relationships and the big picture).
- The Hyper Rational: Feeds the controller and has a fear of taking risks (faith).
- The Hyper-Vigilant: results in danger-awareness level being calibrated to an extreme (worst-case scenario). Can never relax/anxious
- The Pleaser: Can’t say “NO” and has no boundaries – overwhelmed – guilt-driven.
- The Restless causes one to look for escape or comfort (grass is greener), Busyness
- The Stickler: needs perfection to find security and value, is caught in so much detail- can’t let go (too possessive).
- The Victim: causes one to take things (too) personally, focus on emotional state, and spend too much time venting and dwelling on all wrong negativity.
Practical:
POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE (SAGE QUALITIES)
1. EXPLORATION
2. EMPATHY
3. INNOVATION
4. NAVIGATION
5. ACTIVATE
Transformation Application: Go take the test. Get the book.
https://www.positiveintelligence.com/saboteurs/
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