The Look & Sound of Leadership
Summary: An ongoing series of Executive Coaching Tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived.
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We create impressions, in part, through our behaviors. And changing behaviors can feel overwhelming. This four-stage process makes behavioral change manageable.
Companies invest in developing Emotional Intelligence (EQ) in their employees because its presence improves performance. EQ has four steps. Here is step number one.
Every leader casts a long shadow. Casual comments can have huge ripples. Such is the burden of leadership. How well are you shouldering the burden?
Everyone you manage is at a different stage of their professional and personal development. Are you managing them all the same way?
Expert communicators put up signposts so their listeners can follow them easily. Using these “frameworks” can distinguish you as a clear and expert communicator.
Giving upward feedback can be a dicey proposition. The three-step formula in this Executive Coaching Tip will make that potentially dangerous enterprise a whole lot safer.
Companies proudly post their values in their lobbies and on their websites. But values are mere slogans until leaders help people transform those ideas into concrete actions. But that shift can be difficult. Even explosive.
Leaders who are technically gifted leaders are often less gifted when managing their relationships. To avoid derailing - and to have healthy relationships - leaders need the two skills addressed in this month’s podcast.
It’s usually painfully obvious to us when we’re stuck. What’s frustrating is that we can’t get ourselves unstuck. Here are three practical ways for getting unstuck that are particularly helpful in the workplace.
This podcast episode answers the question, "What one factor is the most important for an executive's success?"
Disrupters tend to create a great deal of emotional upset in the people around them. Part Two of "The Disruptive Executive" focuses on four tools to help you manage yourself in the face of all that emotion -- some of which will be your own!
Disruptive executives share four traits in common, one of which is that they create a lot of emotional upheaval. Because of the upset surrounding them, it is especially important to have a simple, step-by-step strategy for managing them. This two-part podcast gives you a wide array of tools for dealing with these particularly difficult professionals.
Work has become a non-stop marathon for many people. Scratch the surface of a high performer and you often find someone whose reserves are depleted. What follows are tools for replenishing your reserves.
Trying to get your message through to a distracted person isn't easy. It takes mental energy, preparation and willingness to repeat yourself. But what happens if YOU are the distracted person?
Certain changes seem so fundamental they feel overwhelming. But usually the change being asked of us actually only addresses one part of ourselves—and we usually know that part quite well. This podcast puts perspective around The Many Parts of You.