The Courage Gap

Close the gap between who you are and who you want to be with this guide from the bestselling author of Through 5 simple but profound steps, you’ll develop more courage, reclaim the power you’ve unwittingly surrendered to fear, and prepare to live your best and bravest life! Building the ability to take risks, make decisions amid ambiguity, make hard calls, and have tough conversations is critical to unlock your courageous capabilities, at work and at home. Margie Warrell harnesses her experience as a leadership and executive coach to deliver an actionable guide to a powerful way of thinking she calls a courage mindset.; Introducing a 5 step guide to achieve courageous thinking: With stories, anecdotes, and research, <The Courage Gap< helps us shift our thinking and bring courage to the forefront of our lives for personal and professional growth and fulfillment. <The Courage Gap <provides a practical framework that connects the why of developing courage to the how–something often missing in literature on bravery.

Autorentext
Margie Warrell, PhD, is a leadership authority with extensive international experience supporting leaders and businesses in transformative change agendas. A Senior Partner in Korn Ferry’s Board, CEO and Leadership practice, Margie draws on her international background in Fortune 500 business, psychology, and coaching to help leaders accelerate change, incubate innovation, and cultivate more forward-leaning cultures.

Zusammenfassung
**Do you sometimes hold back when you know you need to speak up or step forward?

Fear creates the gap. Courage closes it.

This powerful guide from the bestselling author of You’ve Got This! cuts through the hype to connect the 'why' of courage to the 'how' of courage. Drawing on cutting-edge research woven together with stories that compel head and*heart, *The Courage Gap will help you bridge the think/do gap between what you’ve been doing and what you can do; between where you are and where you want to be—in your career, relationships, leadership, and life.

Distilling theory and hard-won wisdom spanning from Margie’s childhood in rural Australia to her decades of living around the world and coaching ‘insecure overachievers’ in Fortune 500 organizations, Margie shares a powerful 5-step roadmap to reprogram the self-protective patterns of thought and behavior that sabotage success to bring your bravest self to your biggest challenges and boldest vision.

At a time when courage seems in short supply, in a culture continually stoking insecurity and anxiety, this book will transform your deepest fears into a catalyst for your highest growth and the greatest good.

Applying the five steps will:

• Ignite passion and unlock the potential fear holds dormant
• Rewrite the scripts that have kept you stuck, stressed, and living too safely
• Reset your ‘nervous’ system and embody courage in critical moments
• Transform discomfort as a cue to step forward and expand your bandwidth for bold action
• Reset your relationship to failure and make peace with the part of you that wimps out
  For leaders, The Courage Gap provides a guide to operationalize and scale the courage mindset across your team and organization to deepen trust, dismantle silos, foster innovation, accelerate learning, and unleash collective courage toward a more secure and rewarding future.