What to do When the Bishop is an Accidental Diminisher | An Interview With Liz Wiseman




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Summary: <br> <br> <a href="https://leadingsaints.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Liz-Wiseman-LDS.jpg"></a><br> <br> Liz Wiseman has been named as one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world and teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders internationally. She is the President of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. She is the author of three best-selling books: <a href="http://amzn.to/2qJghMG" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work</a>, <a href="http://amzn.to/2q7IpqZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter</a> and <a href="http://amzn.to/2q4tcYF" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools</a>. Her book Mulitipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter was recently revised and updated.  In this episode we talk about these revisions and what to do when we have a leader that is a "diminisher."<br> <br> <br> <br> A FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW IS BELOW<br> <br> <br> Interview Highlights:<br> 3:30 Revised edition of Multipliers<br> 7:00 Diminishers as leaders<br> 8:30 How do we build a culture of leaders<br> 11:30 How to see the accidental diminisher in you<br> 16:00 How to approach a diminisher?<br>               Most common strategies (that don't typically work)-<br> <br> * Confront them<br> * Avoid them<br> * Quit<br> * Comply and lay low<br> * Ignore the diminishing behavior<br> <br> 18:00 Experience of Liz confronting a Relief Society President<br> 21:00 Role play- good guy/bad boss<br> 25:45 How to respond to a diminisher- Curiousity approach/ask questions<br>          "I wonder why?" Have empathy.  Who did wrong by this person?  Who micromanaged them?<br> 27:40 Having empathy for the people we work under changes the dynamics<br> 28:15 Instead of excluding the diminisher, ask their opinion<br> 30:00 You don't get to change other people but you can change your response<br> 31:00 You have the choice to be the Multiplier yourself.  It doesn't have to come from the top<br> 32:00 Choose to respond with love<br> 33:00 You don't have to be the boss to be the Multiplier<br> 34:15 Fluid leadership<br> 37:00 Defensive moves- turn the volume down<br> 39:00 Retreat and regroup- example from Apple executive Steve Jobs<br> 42:00 Assert your capability- good strategy to deal with accidental diminisher- "I got this"<br> 46:15 What Liz has learned about her discipleship of Jesus Christ<br> Links:<br> <a href="http://amzn.to/2q7P98a" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter</a><br> <a href="https://leadingsaints.org/?s=liz+wiseman" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Other Liz Wiseman interviews with Leading Saints</a><br> Full Interview Transcript:<br> Kurt Francom (LS): Liz, this is your third time on the Leading Saints podcast, and I welcome you back.<br> <br> Liz Wiseman: It's good to be here. You know, I actually thought it might be my fourth time, but it might-<br> <br> LS: It may be!<br> <br> Liz Wiseman: It might be the third or the fourth, but I hope you're suspicious that I'm out for your job, that I actually want to be the host of the Leading Saints broadcast.<br> <br> LS: There you are. Well, it's yours.<br> <br> Liz Wiseman: Because I keep coming back. <br> <br> LS: You speak the words, and you can be the host of Leading Saints. I think you're much more qualified than I will ever dream of being. Nonetheless, [00:03:25] I always mention how kind you've been to the Leading Saints organization, and the way we've interacted. I do name drop your name for various times. "Yeah, I actually know Liz Wiseman, you know,