Jared Narlock - Becoming a Peaceful Powered Leader: How to Shed Fear, Live Courageously, and Own Your Peace

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Becoming a Peaceful Powered Leader

Becoming A Peaceful Powered Leader is filled with powerful growth opportunities and insights for leaders and organizations alike. Narlocks approach to understanding and defining purpose and successcoupled with a truly hands-on approach to leveraging emotional intelligenceis a game changer for leaders and organizations looking to take their skills and performance to the next level. He backs it with research and a real-world, practical approach to accountability and goals that both inspires and elevates you to be your bestand to own your peace.

Christopher D. Connors, Bestselling Author of Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader and Keynote Speaker

A big part of my leadership approach has centered on self-awareness and coachability. In Becoming a Peaceful Powered Leader, Jared Narlock drives this concept home. Only when we can recognize the fear and ego that drives us can we break old patterns and lead from a more centered place. Not only does this create a sense of inner peace, but it also frees us to engage people in the deep, meaningful way needed to power the workplace of the future. And it creates a more humanistic companyone that attracts the best employees and creates the healthy relationships needed to collaborate at a high level and solve problems. This book shifts how you see things, so you start reacting differently and gives you the tools and tactics to make the change sustainable.

Quint Studer, Author of The Calling: Why Healthcare is So Special

The world needs more Peaceful Powered Leaders. It needs folks that are willing to be vulnerable and truthful, willing to share failures and make it okay for others to do the same. This book is a wonderful guide to take yourself on the journey to becoming a leader who goes beyond inspiring and changes lives. Dont just read it, live it.

April Shprintz, Creator of The Generosity Culture and Author of Magic Blue Rocks - The Secret to Doing Anything

There are countless resources on leadership and its hard to break through with something new and relevant, but Jared Narlock does just this. He reframes leadership in a way that makes it more tangible, others focused AND relevant !! Being a peaceful leader in a time when everything seems to be uncertain and unknown is on point. I plan to use the learnings Ive gleaned from his good work and put it to use personally in my life and in my role in my company. Lead with, and through, peace !!

Steve Browne, SHRM-SCP, Chief People Officer of LaRosas, Inc. and Author of HR on Purpose!! and HR Rising!!

A practical and inspiring guide to help you lead with authenticity and accountabilityand be a force of good in the lives of others.

Nataly Kogan, Author of Happier Now

Jared puts himself in the shoes of the leader, and shows how to lead a life of intention, service, and care with a beautiful guide for how to show up for the most important people in your lifeat home and in the workplace.

Bryan Wish, Chief Executive Officer of BW Missions

How to Shed Fear, Live Courageously, and Own Your Peace

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Becoming a Peaceful Powered Leader

How to Shed Fear, Live Courageously, and Own Your Peace

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This book is dedicated to the leaders who are striving daily to create a humanistic and authentic approach to leadership. Those who connect optimism to action with a vision of a workplace that has the heart, vulnerability, and trust that other areas of our lives consist of and bring forward. Those loyal to leading with peace in a powerful way, in service to others. Thank you all! It is not easy, but I know so many humans truly appreciate it.

Originally, the word power meant able to be. In time, it was contracted to mean to be able. We suffer the difference.

Mark Nepo

Leadership is the immediate provision of power over resources, people, and teams with a single act: the granting of a title. Most leaders find themselves promoted as a result of their abilities or knowledgetheir ableness in the external world. It is their skills and mastery of the external environment that earned them their position, but it wont earn them their place in the world or in the hearts of those they lead.

The very thing they will need to be successful leaders isnt mastery of the external landscape but mastery of the mysterious inner scape, their ability to be. Unfortunately, the very power granted to them gives them disincentive to go within, reflect, get vulnerable, and tend to their own evolution so that they can move about the world not only skillfully but lovingly as well. Instead, it reenforces the illusion that they can succeed by intellectually figuring out strategies and techniques to influence others to create great results. This is the perfect condition for the ego to thrive and build up all the false identities and resulting behaviors we see so rampant in leadership today.

It is time to return to the original meaning of the word power if we want to create a workplace where humans are able to be in order to do necessary and meaningful work. And it is time to modernize the practice of leadership if we want to be able to create the environment to support those efforts.

When the world health crisis first hit in March 2020, I found myself, like many others, on a great number of Zoom calls. As a drama researcher who studies human behavior and whether or not the behavior of humans adds to business results and group well-being or diminishes results and/or workplace happiness, I found myself in a fascinating position. I was able to observe informal interactions happening in the first five minutes of every call while waiting for all invited to show up and for others to figure out their microphones and video feeds without the participants being inhibited by having an observer present. It was a rare seat in the house to observe the interactions between participants as people gathered, forgetting that they were visible to me.

In the beginning, I was touched as I watched a majority of the people join, reach out, and connect in really cool ways, asking each other how they were doing, if they had all they needed, providing encouragement, and even offering large gestures of assistance at times. Colleagues were kind, caring, looking for ways to serve one another, even coaching each other in the use of the new online platforms. For many of us, the universe had put us in a big Time Out, and we were making great use of it to refocus on what was important in life, to get intentional and focus on making sure we as people were cared for and then finding new ways to connect and incredible ways to innovate. The theme in the air was together we can, and no person left behind, and it was quite encouraging. The energy was peaceful, the people confident and centered, the language positive, and the actions seemed intentional.