10X Impact Conversations

What can we learn at the intersection of conscious leadership and coaching? Are all extraordinary leaders also coaches? What is "coaching culture", and does it improve employee engagement? In this week's 10X Impact Conversation podcast, our host Laura Juarez and executive coaching extraordinaire and 10X co-founder, Katie Comtois, dive deep into what defines extraordinary leaders, what lies at the intersection of coaching and conscious leadership, and why your leadership story and style inherently contribute to the bottom line. For loyal followers of the show, this is a slightly modified repeat from #100: The Truth about Engagement – and absolutely worth another listen. - - -

On This Episode:

• 7:00 What does it mean to be a good coach?
• 8:30 Defining conscious leadership and coaching
• 11:00 What are extraordinary leaders and coaches doing differently?
• 18:00 What is a coaching culture?
• 20:00 Your leadership development story
• 25:00 The connection between coaching culture, employee engagement, and culture activation
• 27:00 Vulnerable leadership and the importance of authenticity

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The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab.

10X Leadership Lab is a conscious coaching and consulting practice supporting high-potential companies and leaders aspiring to make a positive impact through their products and services. We transform business as a conduit for higher purpose, galvanize leaders and teams to create lasting change, and cultivate high-performing ecosystems rooted in impact and results.

We teach: Purpose Alignment – Conscious Leadership – Thriving Culture – Stakeholder Win-Win

To inquire about executive coaching or consulting, contact us here.

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Can virtual reality improve respectful engagement and inclusivity in the workplace? What is the difference between walking in someone's shoes and walking in their feet? How do you go from being a bystander to an upstander?

In this week's 10X Impact Conversation, we're talking with Dr. Robin Rosenberg, the CEO and Founder of Live in Their World (LITW), a program designed to help employees develop more respectful ways to interact with each other using research-backed training techniques and immersive technologies, such as virtual reality.

We talk about the urgent need for organizations and leaders to address subtle biases, how to create a culture that treats all individuals with civility and respect, the difficulty of truly being "in the feet" of another person versus being in their shoes and share tips on respectful everyday interactions such as meeting invitations and break room conversations.

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Learn more about the Live in Their World program here: Live In Their World | Virtual Reality Meets Diversity and Inclusion Training

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The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab.

10X Leadership Lab is a conscious coaching and consulting practice supporting high-potential companies and leaders aspiring to make a positive impact through their products and services. We transform business as a conduit for higher purpose, galvanize leaders and teams to create lasting change, and cultivate high-performing ecosystems rooted in impact and results.

We teach: Purpose Alignment – Conscious Leadership – Thriving Culture – Stakeholder Win-Win

To learn more or inquire about our coaching or consulting, visit 10xleadershiplab.com.

Let's get nerdy for a moment: Brain science tells us that humans make decisions in our limbic brain (our feeling brain), and then we validate and justify those decisions in our cortex (our thinking brain).

If this is true, why do we over-index on sharing facts and figures as leaders?

Today, we have Gabrielle Dolan with us to unpack the importance of stories and hone our skill as storytellers.

Storytelling gets a lot of attention in marketing, and yet, as leaders, we consistently miss out on the power of stories as a way to create understanding, inspiration, and alignment.

Why?

We'll share our hypothesis and dig into the elements of stories that create traction with our company values, goals, and purpose.

You'll love the "touch the wall" story Gabrielle shares to illustrate the power of stories in the wild.

Gabrielle Dolan is an author, educator, keynote speaker, and coach who has worked with clients like VISA, EY, Amazon, Vodafone and the Obama Foundation.

She is the best-selling author of several books including Real Communication, Stories for Work, and her latest book, Magnetic Stories: Connect with Customers and Engage Employees with Brand Storytelling.

You can learn more about her work at https://gabrielledolan.com/ and access her 7 Day Story Telling Starter Kit HERE.

The 10X Impact podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab.

10X Leadership Lab exists transform business into a vehicle that elevates humanity through conscious leadership, stakeholder win win, thriving culture, and higher purpose.

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How comfortable are you with radical candor?

As promised, this week, Katie and I get real about radical candor.

We started this conversation in episode #112: Radical Candor & What People Really Think, but today, you'll get an inside look into our own experience, learning, and practice with radical candor.

Radical candor asks us to practice the intersection of caring deeply and challenging directly.

And truthfully, we don't talk to many people who feel skilled at finding and holding that intersection.

We'll share why and give tips on how to build this skill. We'll also end with an experiment that we can all run in our lives as a way to practice.

And maybe someday, radically candid conversations won't feel so radical.

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Do you remember your first "real job"?

I do. I started with a global consulting company less than 30 days after graduating from college. I was over the moon excited, slightly petrified, and generally curious about this thing called work.

The stories from my first year are still some of the most memorable of my career. (And worthy of their own podcast episode which would definitely fall squarely in the comedy category).

Today, we're hearing snippets from a group of young professionals, and as a leader, I'm not sure if I want to laugh or cry. Maybe both. And while we might chalk it up to the angst of transitioning from student to adult, there's something here for us to digest.

Whatever emotions we want to prescribe to it, employees are not having an inspiring experience and their collective "great resignation" is proof positive that expectations are shifting.

As leaders, will we shift to pace with those changing expectations?

I suspect if we bravely paused our laser focus on business results and refocused our attention on culture, employee experience, and higher purpose, we'd come out ahead.

We'll also take a swim in the shallow end of radical candor. You'll leave with a solid foundation on what is and how you might begin to shift from "too polite" or "too abrasive" to direct, compassionate candor that strengthens relationships.

And no worries! Next week we'll take a deep end plunge with it.

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Today is all about psychological safety. I'll share a secret about my own experience as we deep dive into a myth of leadership and walk through a practice you can use that will pay HUGE DIVIDENDS.

Psychological safety matters. And while we may have an instant reaction to the terminology, I encourage you to listen with curiosity to this episode.

We wrap with an experiment you can run. I'd love to hear how it goes... reach out with your result to [email protected] and fill me in!

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The 10X Impact podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab.

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Wish you knew how to actualize the potential of your teams?

You're in for a treat because, today, Ellen Burts-Cooper is with me. Ellen is one of my favorite educators on cohesive, agile team performance, and she's going to share her approach to creating high-performing teams.

One of the reasons I love Ellen's work is she focuses on both style and systems. It's easy to over-index on style as it's more provocative, but without good systems, we dilute our strength.

What will you walk away with?

• A methodology for co-creating team norms and working agreements.
• The ready-made recipe to run a Team Reunion; a concept I love! I'm convinced we all need to host one with our teams in the immediate future.

Ellen is the senior managing partner of Improve Consulting and Training Group (http://improveconsulting.biz/) and is on faculty at Case Western Reserve University in the Weatherhead Executive Education Program and The Institute for Management Studies (IMS).

She's written two books: "aMAZEing Organizational Teams: Navigating 7 Critical Attributes for Cohesion, Productivity and Resilience" and "Canine Instinct: A Guide to Survival and Advancement in Corporate America." You can connect with her directly on LinkedIn.

The 10X Impact podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab.

10X Leadership Lab exists to transform business into a vehicle that elevates humanity through conscious leadership, stakeholder win-win, thriving culture, and higher purpose.

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We're turning our gaze inward today to talk about how the choices we make impact our personal fulfillment and the legacy we create.

I've invited Tony Martignetti to join us. Tony is the author of "Climbing the Right Mountain: Navigating the Journey to An Inspired Life" as well as the host of The Virtual Campfire podcast.

Tony started his business, Inspired Purpose Coaching, to help people unlock their potential so that they may more gracefully lead with authenticity, inspired action, and impactful outcomes.

He offers sage advice on creating alignment that is both practical and actionable.

If you'd like to learn more about Tony, visit his website or reach out to him on LinkedIn. And pick up his book! You can find it HERE.

This episode is part of a leadership series we'll be sprinkling in over the next few months! Enjoy today's conversation!

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Everyone's talking about the start of the college football season (Go Bucks) and stakeholders. At 10X, we talk about Stakeholder Win/Win versus Stakeholder Capitalism because clear rules the day, and when its all said and done, what matters is what we do, not the theories we espouse.

In today's conversation, we're putting our toe into stakeholder win/win; exploring a model 10X uses to create a conversation around what this is with each stakeholder in our ecosystem.

I always try to remember that conflict and disagreement almost always root from misalignment. And often, misalignment roots from unclear expectations around outcomes and behaviors.

This simple process will help you transform your relationships with your stakeholders and set the stage for future conversations about stakeholders over the next several months.

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This is Part 2 of our strategy series. Last week, we talked about the cadence (process) of strategy creation and successful actualization.

This week we're diving into the subtle. The most important work strategically happens before we run a competitive analysis, brainstorm our SWOT, or look at market trends.

In fact, starting with these exercises increases our likelihood of failure. What matters most is getting clear on what's inspiring, worthy, and impactful. From there, we can create the form and function of our strategic plan through that lens.

If you're interested in exploring the 10X Strategy Methodology for your company or team, please contact us at [email protected].

The 10X Impact podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab.

10X Leadership Lab exists transform business into a vehicle that elevates humanity through conscious leadership, stakeholder win win, thriving culture, and higher purpose.

• Visit www.10xleadershiplab.com
• Subscribe to 10X Leadership Lab Education
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• Connect with your host, Laura Juarez

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