Coaching for Leaders

540: How to Create Space, with Juliet Funt


Listen Later

Juliet Funt: A Minute to Think
Juliet Funt is a renowned keynote speaker and tough-love advisor to the Fortune 500 who is regularly featured in top global media outlets, including Forbes and Fast Company. She is the founder and CEO of The Juliet Funt Group, helping business leaders and organizations to unleash their full potential by unburdening talent from busywork.
She has earned one of the highest ratings in the largest leadership event in the world, and she has worked with brands such as Spotify, National Geographic, Costco, Pepsi, Nike, and many more. Her new book is titled, A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work.
In this conversation, Juliet and I explore the four assets that many leaders bring to the workplace — and when taken too far, how these assets become risks. Juliet shares four questions we can ask of ourselves (and perhaps of others) that will surface where to start with finding space. Plus, we discuss some of the practical steps leaders can take to influence a culture of margin with their teams.
Key Points
The science is showing what many of us have experienced intuitively: space itself helps us to explore and expand possibility.
Key assets can, if overused, become risks. These risks manifest in four ways: overdrive, perfectionism, overload, and frenzy.
Four questions are useful starting points for controlling risk:
When the risk is overdrive, the question is:
Is there anything I can let go of?
 When the risk is perfectionism, the question is:
Where is ‘good enough’, good enough?
When the risk is overload, the question is:
What do I truly need to know?
When the risk is frenzy, the question is:
What deserves my attention?
Resources Mentioned
The Busyness Test
A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work* by Juliet Funt
Interview Notes
Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).
Related Episodes
The Power of Solitude, with Mike Erwin (episode 308)
How to Change Your Behavior, with BJ Fogg (episode 507)
How High Achievers Begin to Find Balance, with Michael Hyatt (episode 522)
Discover More
Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Coaching for LeadersBy Dave Stachowiak

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

1,384 ratings


More shows like Coaching for Leaders

View all
The Look & Sound of Leadership by Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

The Look & Sound of Leadership

1,160 Listeners

Teaching in Higher Ed by Bonni Stachowiak

Teaching in Higher Ed

366 Listeners

HBR IdeaCast by Harvard Business Review

HBR IdeaCast

169 Listeners

Negotiate Anything by Kwame Christian Esq., M.A.

Negotiate Anything

704 Listeners

How to Be Awesome at Your Job by How to be Awesome at Your Job

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

1,034 Listeners

Worklife with Adam Grant by TED

Worklife with Adam Grant

9,198 Listeners

Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style by Laura Camacho

Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

85 Listeners

Maxwell Leadership Executive Podcast by John Maxwell

Maxwell Leadership Executive Podcast

386 Listeners

The Modern Manager by Mamie Kanfer Stewart

The Modern Manager

185 Listeners

Inside the Strategy Room by McKinsey & Company

Inside the Strategy Room

169 Listeners

No Bullsh!t Leadership by Martin G Moore

No Bullsh!t Leadership

127 Listeners

Dave's Journal by Dave Stachowiak

Dave's Journal

16 Listeners

The Anxious Achiever by Morra Aarons-Mele

The Anxious Achiever

574 Listeners

A Bit of Optimism by Simon Sinek

A Bit of Optimism

2,126 Listeners

Coaching Real Leaders by Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Coaching Real Leaders

665 Listeners

HBR On Strategy by Harvard Business Review

HBR On Strategy

77 Listeners

HBR On Leadership by Harvard Business Review

HBR On Leadership

156 Listeners