Resources
Resources for Your Leadership Journey
Welcome to a collection of resources to support your leadership journey. At Virago Coaching, I recognize that leadership is both rewarding and challenging. I've gathered tools and insights to help you build your skills and navigate guiding others. Feel free to explore these resources, each selected to enhance your understanding and confidence, reinforcing your ability to lead with humility. If you find value here, I invite you to schedule an exploratory session with me to see if we can collaboratively strengthen your leadership foundation. Embrace this journey and let's explore the possibilities together.
Communications & Presentations
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Five Ways To Sharpen Your Communication Skills
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How To Collaborate Effectively If Your Team Is Remote
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The Antidote to Office Gossip
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6 Key Elements of a Great Presentation
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Structure Your Presentation Like a Story
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Slide:ology
Nancy Durate
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Resonate
Nancy Duarte
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Talk Like Ted
Carmine Gallo
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Networking for People Who Hate Networking
Devora Zack
Confidence
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To Lead More Effectively, Increase Your Self-Confidence
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10 Things You Can Do to Boost Self-Confidence
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The Confidence Code
Kathy Kay & Claire Shipman
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Lean In
Sheryl Sanderg
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Daring Greatly
Brene Brown
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You Are A Badass
Jen Sincero
Conflict & Difficult Situations
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How To Fight Smarter: Soften Your Start-Up
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The Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, & Stonewalling
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The Four Horsemen: The Antidotes
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7 Tips for Difficult Conversations
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Difficult Conversations
Souglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen
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Crucial Conversations
Kerry Patterson, Al Switzler & Joseph Grenny
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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Diversity and inclusion: 8 Best Practices for Changing Your Culture
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4 DEI Practices Your Company Should Adopt In 2022
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Managers, Here’s How to Be a Better Ally in the Remote Workplace
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The “Angry Black Woman” Stereotype at Work
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Me and White Supremacy
Layla F. Saad
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Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall
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How To Be Anti-Racist
Ibram X. Kendi
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How To Be Less Stupid About Race
Crystal Marie Fleming
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Confessions From Your Token Black Colleague
Talisa Lavarry
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So You Want To Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
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White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo
Feedback
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9 Rules for Effective Feedback
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Quiz: What's Your Feedback Style?
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Thanks For The Feedback
Douglas Stone & Shelia Heen
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Radical Candor
Kim Scott
Influence
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Strengthen Your Ability To Influence People
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Understand the 4 Components of Influence
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5 Ways to Influence without Authority
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink
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How to Win Friends & Influence People In The Digital Age
Dae Carnegie
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Made To Stick
Dan Heath & Chip Heath
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher, William L. Ury & Bruce Patton
Leadership
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4 Steps to Becoming a More Self-Aware Leader
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Infectious Leadership
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Leadership: It's Not About You
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12 Ways to Be the Leader Everyone Wants to Work For
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The Importance of Relationship-Building in Today’s Leadership
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The Five Levels of Leadership Agility
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Dare To Lead
Brené Brown
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The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier
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The First Person You Must Lead is YOU
Rebecca Halstead
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Your Oxygen Mask First
Kevin H. Lawrence
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Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek
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Start With Why
Simon Sinek
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Multipliers
Liz Wiseman
Managing Change
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5 Tips for Managing Change In The Workplace
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Managing Change, One Day at a Time
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Immunity To Change
Lisa Laskow Lahey & Robert Kegan
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Switch
Dan Heath & Chip Heath
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Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson
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Leading Change
John Kotter
Neuroscience
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Your Body Is Your Brain
Amanda Blake
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Positive Intelligence
Shirzad Chamine
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Buddha's Brain
Rick Hanson
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Handwriting Happiness
Rick Hanson
Self-Awareness
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What is self-awareness? And how can you cultivate it?
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Want to Be a Good Leader? Step 1: Know Thyself
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5 Ways to Become More Self-Aware
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Presence
Amy Cuddy
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Grit
Angela Duckworth
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Insight
Tara Eurich
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Executive Presence
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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Strength Finders 2.0
Tom Rath
Strategic Thinking
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Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills
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Strategic Thinking: Because Good Ideas Can Come From Anywhere
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Strengthen Your Strategic Thinking Muscles
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6 Ways to Screen Job Candidates for Strategic Thinking
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Good to Great
Jim Collins
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Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh
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Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
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The Fifth Discipline
Peter M. Sange
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The First 90 Days
Michael D. Watkins
Podcasts
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I am Virago
Janice Lichtenwaldt
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Dare to Lead
Brené Brown
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The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday
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Enneagram 2.0
Beatrice Chestnut & Uranio Paes
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The CliftonStrengths Podcast
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Hidden Brain
Shankar Vedantam
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Ten Percent Happier
Dan Harris
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Bliss and Grit