Leadership Unblocked:
Break Through the Beliefs that Limit Your Potential
“A practical resource to help leaders get out of their own way. If you’ve ever felt like your worst enemy is you, Muriel Wilkins has guidance to help you become a better boss.”
—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Think Again and Hidden Potential; podcast host, Re:Thinking
As a leader, it’s easy to point the finger at someone else when something goes wrong—expectations aren’t met, peers are slow to act, or pressure from the top adds to an already stressful environment. Leaders spend so much time trying to control others, stressing and ruminating on how to force a situation to bend to their will, when instead they should be focusing on themselves.
In Leadership Unblocked: Break Through the Beliefs That Limit Your Potential, Muriel outlines seven hidden beliefs that are holding leaders back. These unconscious beliefs actively block progress if leaders aren’t aware of their existence, preventing leaders from seeing a situation clearly, solving problems effectively, and ultimately, advancing their careers. From “I know I’m right” to “I need to be involved” to “I don’t belong here,” Muriel offers signs and signals to determine which hidden blockers might be at play, where they come from, and the cost of those blockers both on leaders and on their organizations.
Leadership Unblocked provides practical tools for leaders to identify, unpack and break through these barriers to get out of their own way to achieve individual goals, deliver organizational results, and lead with more ease, better vision and higher impact.
Learn more about the new Leadership Unblocked Group Coaching Intensive launching on January 12th!
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Advance Praise for Leadership Unblocked
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“A practical resource to help leaders get out of their own way. If you’ve ever felt like your worst enemy is you, Muriel Wilkins has guidance to help you become a better boss.”
—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author, ThinkAgain and HiddenPotential; podcast host, Re:Thinking
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“Muriel Wilkins guides us through the invisible assumptions that quietly shape our leadership—and shows us how to release them. This book is the coach every ambitious professional needs.”
—Dorie Clark, executive education faculty, Columbia Business School; Wall Street Journal bestselling author, The Long Game
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“Difficulties are unavoidable, but we can and should control how we deal with them. Leadership Unblocked offers a roadmap of how to do it with poise, structure, and confidence.”
—Magdalena Nowicka Mook, CEO, International Coaching Federation
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“A powerful guide to getting out of your own way. Muriel Wilkins delivers the clarity and coaching every leader needs—right when they need it most.”
—Frances Frei, professor, Harvard Business School; coauthor, Unleashed
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“Turns out the biggest challenge to our success at work is often ourselves. This book gets to the heart of the ways we trip ourselves up and offers practical ways to get us untangled.”
—Michael Bungay Stanier, author, The Coaching Habit
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“Leadership Unblocked focuses on specific problems that different types of leaders must overcome. The result is actionable insight for each individual.”
—Tom Monahan, CEO, Heidrick & Struggles
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“Leadership Unblocked is an honest, empowering guide that reminds us that our greatest growth often lies on the other side of self-awareness. A must-read for any leader ready to move from good to great.”
—Michelle Riley-Brown, CEO, Children’s National Hospital
Hidden Blocker Quiz
As a thank you for ordering Leadership Unblocked, Muriel would like to offer you the Hidden Blockers Quiz. This tool will help you uncover which unconscious belief – what Muriel calls a hidden blocker - may be getting in the way of your leadership growth. By identifying your most active blockers now, you’ll step into the book with sharper self-awareness and a clear starting point for change.
Coach Yourself Worksheet
Download the Coach Yourself Worksheet featured in Leadership Unblocked. Use it to coach yourself through the Blocked to Unblocked Roadmap and to answer coaching questions that will help uncover, unpack, and unblock from the primary hidden blocker that’s holding you back.
Filled with reflection questions, worksheets, and step-by-step exercises, this toolkit guides you through the Blocked to Unblocked Roadmap, helping you to uncover, unpack, and unblock from your limiting beliefs. From there you can reframe your thinking and establish new habits that will keep your hidden blockers in check.
The toolkit includes editable worksheets, example Blocked to Unblocked Roadmaps for each of the seven hidden blockers, a discussion guide, a handbook, and an ebook copy of Leadership Unblocked.
The Leadership Unblocked Toolkit: Coach Yourself to Overcome Limiting Beliefs
AUTHOR
Muriel M. Wilkins
For over two decades, Muriel has been a trusted advisor and executive coach to high performing C-suite and senior executives who rely on her to navigate their toughest challenges. As the CEO and Founder of Paravis Partners, a leadership advisory firm, Muriel and her team help leaders excel and achieve lasting success. She is also the host of the award-winning HBR podcast, Coaching Real Leaders.
Muriel has been invited to speak at numerous organizations and interviewed by media on how to get unstuck and overcome professional obstacles. Muriel’s mission is to help leaders grow and evolve so they—and those around them—can lead and live with greater ease.