In the Right Direction with Deb Elbaum

When we’re working toward personal and professional goals that matter to us, it’s helpful to pause periodically to reflect on where we’ve been putting our energies so that we can be sure we’re moving in the right direction. Too often, though, we forget to or deprioritize taking time for self-reflection.

Having an easy structure for self-reflection can help, especially when we have limited time. Having a powerful question in our toolkit that we can ask ourselves every day or every week can make it easier to pause and gather realizations.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares one easy coaching question you can use to build your self-reflection practice. If you’re ready to feel proud of all you’ve been doing and trying, press the play button now.

Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast

Feedback is a helpful part of professional development; it illuminates our strengths and growth opportunities. Yet, receiving feedback – especially 360 feedback from our manager, peers, and direct reports – can be daunting and overwhelming. It can send our brain to a place of fear, when we really want to stay calm and curious.

Having a plan to process 360 feedback can help. Bringing an intentional mindset, remembering where we have choice and agency, and having a structured framework can make the experience easier and more positive.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares concrete advice for receiving 360 feedback to help leaders stay centered and in control. If you’re ready for your 360 feedback process to be more positive and productive, press the play button now.

Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast

Meetings are an opportunity to show leadership presence, build relationships, collaborate, and align around action. Too often, though, people just show up to a meeting without any intention or preparation. That’s disrespecting others’ time and the meeting’s value.

Taking a few moments to prepare for meetings – especially important ones – is a must in this meeting-heavy world. Pre-thinking helps clarify thoughts, allowing people to feel confident, clear, and productive.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum explains a two-part framework for collecting and clarifying your thoughts and questions ahead of a meeting, so that you know you’re showing up intentionally, clearly, and confidently. If you want to feel more in control and empowered around your most important meetings, press the play button now.

Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast/

When we sense that the people we are talking with feel unclear or uncertain, we want to be supportive. We want them to feel clear, confident, and empowered. The way to to do this is not by telling; it's by asking questions.

Helping others feel empowered in the moment takes an approach, mindset, and skill set. It takes being intentional around where you put your focus and the questions you ask.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum explains a framework and the steps it takes to slow down, be present, and coach someone else to think more positively. If you want to build your coaching skills as a leader, colleague, and friend to help those around you reflect and grow, press the play button now.

Transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast

Leaders are committed to supporting those they work with to achieve goals. One obstacle that can get in the way is the stress of other people. If you work with people who get stressed, you know the negative impact it can have on productivity, working together, and conversations.

Other people are not in your control, AND it is in your control as a leader to try different strategies to invite your team and colleagues to shift from stressed thinking to more effective thinking.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum explains two strategies you can try with others to help them return to strategic thinking, good decision-making, and seeing other points of view. If you want to add more strategies to your coaching toolkit to help those you live and work with more quickly regain their calm and clarity when stressed, press the play button now.

Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast

Having more peace of mind allows our body to relax and our thoughts to quiet. Calmer, clearer thinking helps us move forward more easily and live more intentionally. Too often, though, everyday stresses undermine our ability to connect to this place of calm.

If we care about how we show up for ourselves and others, we need strategies to help us shift out of stress and into a more peaceful brain. One way to do this is to allow, recognize, and name the different parts of our thinking and feeling.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares a brain-based tool to access greater calm, acceptance, and peace of mind. If you’re ready to think, act, and lead from a place of more clarity and understanding of yourself and others, press the play button now.

Relationships need trust to thrive. When there’s trust, relationships are easier, lighter, and more collaborative. When there’s a lack of trust, misperceptions and misunderstandings can take root.

Building trust takes clarity around expectations and perceived roles and responsibilities. While this often comes with time, there’s also a way to accelerate this clarity in a relationship – and that’s through communicating exactly what we want others to count on us for.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares a phrase that, when asked and answered in “designing the alliance” conversations, can help more quickly bridge relationship gaps and build trust. If you’re ready to build or rebuild some key relationships in your life and work, press the play button now.

Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast/

Innovating, taking on challenges, and partnering effectively with others requires a growth mindset – a perspective of resilience and seeing “failures” as learning opportunities. Yet, too often, stress and frustration can send us into a fixed mindset.

What if you had an easy brain-focusing tool to help you and others shift seamlessly from fixed mindset to growth mindset? You’d probably give yourself permission to try new ideas and strategies, think more creatively, and navigate challenges with more ease.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares a key coaching question to capture insights and realizations and shift into more productive and forward-looking thinking, both for yourself and those you work. If you’re ready to see life and work more through a growth mindset, press the play button now.

Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast/

Most leaders are committed to their personal and professional development. We get in our own way, however, when we operate from a fixed mindset and continue to hold and perpetuate old “stories” and negative limiting beliefs we have about ourselves.

Growth and learning require a growth mindset, especially around how we talk to and see ourselves. The good news is that there’s a powerful and easy strategy to help shift a limiting self-narrative to one that’s more positive, generous, and forward-looking.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares and explains the easy-to-use two-phrase strategy that can help shift negative and fixed self-beliefs into more malleable, accurate, and actionable self-beliefs. If you’re ready to see more easily what you might be capable of, press the play button now.

Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast/

What are the most helpful things people have said to you during your life that you still carry with you and recall when you need that wisdom? Taking the time to reflect helps us better understand the beliefs and ideas that guide us and help us make sense of the world.

What if we made sure to take the time to reflect, think about those who have helped us, and share our appreciation? We’d be spreading a bit more kindness and gratitude in the world.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum extends an invitation to pause and reflect about the power of words: both the words others have shared with you and the words you have shared with others. She shares personal examples to help us think about what's in and not in our control. If you’d like an opportunity to think about how to be more intentional in conversations, press the play button now.

Full transcript at https://debelbaum.com/podcast/