In the Right Direction with Deb Elbaum

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We have a fundamental need to be understood by others. We also want to understand those around us, and how they truly feel or think about something. Yet, too often, there's a lack of clarity all around.

If we want to more deeply understand how others are thinking and feeling, we need a coaching tool. The good news is that there's an easy-to-remember tool to help drive conversations that are clearer, more action-oriented, and create more alignment.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares this question, explains how it's a brain-helpful question, and gives examples about using it in conversation. If you're ready to add a tool to create more understanding and alignment to your toolkit of leadership coaching questions, press the play button now.

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

Most of us are goal-driven people. There are things we want to achieve at work, and there are things we want for our lives. Sometimes, we know what to do to achieve these, and sometimes we don't. We feel stuck and unsure about what next step to take.

The good news is that there's a strategy that can make it easier to feel excited and confident about what you can do next to create a path to achieving your goals. That strategy is called visioning. Visioning is a way for our brain to time travel to a future, and then tell us what we need to do to make that future happen.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum describes the brain-friendly thinking-about-the-future tool called visioning and shares some examples of how to vision with a team and by yourself. If you're ready to give yourself permission to dream and imagine the future you truly want, press the play button now.

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Most leaders appreciate feedback so they can continue to learn and grow -- to serve their team, their stakeholders, and their organization. They want to know what they're doing well and what their opportunities are; yet, too often, they receive feedback that is vague and nonspecific.

If we want to receive actionable and relevant feedback around our presence, communication, and work, we need to ask better questions. We need to decide what we want feedback around, and then ask questions targeted to invite the feedback provider's brain to share that information.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares a question strategy aimed at making it easy to get balanced, relevant, and actionable feedback, so that people can know what behaviors to continue and change. If you're ready for an easy strategy for getting better feedback, press the play button now.

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With so many expectations on us, we need to make sure that we are using our time wisely and efficiently. Yet focusing solely on our thinking and forcing our brain to stay on task for too long can undermine our productivity.

If we want to be productive and efficient, we need to expand our awareness to focus on the body. The brain and body are intimately connected; when we take care of our body, we're really taking care of our brain so that it can do its best thinking and processing.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum explains how prioritizing self-care can ultimately help us achieve more, and she shares examples and ideas to get you started building new self-care habits. If you are ready to feel happier, healthier, and more productive, press the play button now.

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We all want things, for our relationships, our career, and our life. We want love, we want to grow, and we want to thrive. Yet, too often, our thoughts are about what's not going well – the challenges, worries, and problems. What if you had a way to shift your thinking from what you don't want to what you do want?

There's a simple question that can help get to the heart of the matter. This question can help us get clear about what's important to us, and it can help us invite those we live and work with work to focus their thinking.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum dives into when, how, and why to use the question, "What do you want?" With examples and detailed explanation, she equips you to coach yourself and others using this powerful question. If you are ready to create more happiness and purpose for you and those you lead, press the play button now.

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

We want to know that what we're doing OK in life, that we're making good decisions and choices. Yet when we start comparing our accomplishments and lives to what others have achieved, it's easy to doubt ourselves and hear only our inner critic voice.

If we want to stay centered and confident about who we are, it helps to have a strong sense of our values, purpose, and priorities. Standing in our power helps us trust our decisions and focus on creating a life that's right for us and those we care about.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares a leadership concept and tool that can help us feel confident and clear, even in times when it could be easy to fall into the comparison trap. She teaches you how to connect to and use this powerful reminder of your wisdom and abilities, so that you have journey through life with more ease and peace of mind. If you're ready to claim and celebrate your authentic leadership, press the play button now.

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