Monarch Papers

BEING A LEADER, you have the ability and aspiration to guide your team to achieve a common goal, but it can sometimes be challenging. These challenges can impact every facet of your business from having disengaged employees to inefficiencies and internal conflicts to not meeting sales goals. The key is to align your leadership style with your team to inspire growth and maximize potential.

It’s hard to overestimate just how important empathy is in creating—and leading—a successful business. Learn more about the Empathy model and how it can increase employee engagement and productivity. 

Are you in Flow with your business? Flow is a mental state in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment. Learn more about the Flow Model and how it can increase employee engagement and productivity.

The meaning of the word is related to transform, to change and evolve, and is the center of Transformative Leadership. It´s a call to action for leaders to transform, similar to the Monarch butterfly. Leaders need to take action towards their own transformation process, not only on the outside as it impacts daily decisions, but also on the inside as a person.

Today, the world is calling for help. What is our true character and calling? This is the time to show who we really are with our people, our businesses, our families and our communities. Downloading our Monarch Paper and find out if you are inspiring others as leaders today.

The challenge is while the economy comes back gradually, are the new habits here to stay? Simplicity plays a major role in our lives now. Are we willing to keep it that way? One of the lessons being in quarantine can teach us is to be aligned with simplicity and resilience. Learn about what role simplicity can play in your life and in your business by downloading the Simplicity Monarch Paper today.

Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry is a term used to differentiate between the scientific management approach (Taylor 1919) and the strength base approach (Cooperrider 1987). The goal of the scientific management approach is to define what isn’t working and finding a solution to the problem. On the other hand, the goal of the strength base approach is to define what is working and seeing the best in the situation. As leaders, by following the strength base approach, we are able to spot and embrace the talents of our team.

We are designed to have blind spots, which are the biggest opportunities to increase the level of conscience. Uncover the blind spots in your team today.

Entitativity can measure a person’s willingness to blend into the group, and it’s easier to blend when the identity of the group is clear. When the values, direction, and leadership are clear; individuals can have a better sense of belonging. In this instance, the individual knows the identity of the group and will choose to blend in.

The Monarch Advantage™ is a unique perspective for leaders and organizations. This integrative methodology, called CORE, brings together Coaching, Counseling, Mentoring and Consulting. CORE is a proven integrative and holistic approach that utilizes each method depending on the needs of the person or organization. Combined, these provide a powerful tool that delivers high impact and transcendence so the person or organization can maximize their potential.

Just like a monarch butterfly, leaders have different cycles of growth. The key to growth is knowing which leadership stage you and your team are in. As the founder of Monarch Leaders™, Jesús de la Garza specializes in transforming the way leaders think through Transformative Leadership. This approach brings awareness to where leaders and their teams are in terms of their leadership cycle and inspires growth to reach new heights.