In the Right Direction with Deb Elbaum

When information comes at us – such as in an email, message, or feedback – our brain can get activated and we can end up reacting in ways we later regret. When we react instead of thoughtfully respond, it can cause misunderstanding, hurt feelings, and damage our professional reputation.

The good news is that there's a simple leadership tool that can help you put space in between the information coming your way and what you do or say next. This leadership tool is, simply, to pause. Pausing allows for possibility, as it's the place where we can create our choices about how to approach and manage a situation, given how we want to show up and what our goals are.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum discusses the power of the pause, why you need to practice it for you, and how to coach your team members so they can remember to pause, too. If you're ready to be less reactive and instead seen as a more thoughtful, calm, and compassionate leader, press the play button now.

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Executive presence is not just for executives. It's for everyone, because people notice what we do and say. And if we are doing and saying things that leave a negative impression, it can undermine our relationships and influence.

Being aware of and intentional around how you show up helps you create the impression you want to make. It helps you be seen as the leader you want to be and have the impact you want to have. And it's easy to start creating a confident and clear executive presence. It all starts with one question.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares the powerful coaching question -- and how to answer it -- so that you can choose an intention for how others see you and give your brain a roadmap to think and communicate clearly and positively. If you're ready to start building your executive presence and setting and manifesting your leadership intention, press the play button now.

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When people share their solicited or unsolicited opinions about your work, your style, or how you communicate, they are giving you feedback. While some of this feedback is hopefully positive, other times it might feel negative. It might really hurt. When we receive negative feedback, we're often quick to discount it because we don't trust the giver or it doesn't fit with our self-view. We might not see any value in what was said.

But what if you had a way to take in negative feedback more easily and calmly? What if you had strategies to make negative feedback work for you? Then you might see the kernels of helpfulness buried in it, and use this data to help yourself grow as a leader and as a human.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares 2 steps for handling negative feedback more calmly and confidently. By changing your mindset and being more proactive, you can become more adept at handling negative feedback. If you're ready to change your relationship with negative feedback for the better, press the play button now.

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Our brain and the way it thinks is powerful and persuasive. How often are you convinced that your perspective and point of view is the truth, the only way to see a situation? The reality, though, is that perspective is a choice. There are other, more positive perspectives that we can choose to take that might help us think, feel, and communicate differently.

What if you were able to use the idea of perspective as a tool to shift your thinking from more pessimistic to optimistic? What if you understood how learning a new perspective could help your brain and its thinking? You'd be a stronger communicator, a more emotionally-intelligent leader, and likely a kinder person.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum explains the neuroscience and impact of brain perspective. Using personal and relatable examples, she shares a 3 step-approach to help you recognize an unhelpful perspective you might be in and change it to a more positive one. If you're ready to shift some of those tough relationships and change some of your negative thought patterns to ones that will serve you better, press the play button now.

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Most professionals agree that networking is important, and yet, it the thought of reaching out to someone you don't know well often fills people with anxiety or dread. Worrying about bothering someone, or not knowing your ask for a networking conversation often stops people's networking in its tracks.

What if you had strategies for feeling more confident and excited for networking? You would spend less time worrying about networking and more time building relationships, exchanging ideas, and making new friends.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares the 3 most common derailers of networking. She then tackles each networking derailer with ideas and strategies about how to make networking work for you in your life.

If you're ready to be a better networker and have more productive and helpful conversations, press the play button now.

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

It's estimated that 70% of people experience Impostor Syndrome at some point. Are you one of them? How has it kept you from asking for a promotion or raise, or sharing a novel idea? Impostor syndrome keeps us playing small in a world where we have important things to say and purposeful goals to achieve.

Understanding what confidence is and how to start building it immediately will help you in your personal and professional life. It will help you ask for what you want and move more easily toward achieving your goals.

In this podcast, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares her easy-to-remember "confidence formula." She explains the variables that are in our control and talks you through the formula with examples and pointers. By practicing confidence more and more, you'll feel more empowered and in control, and you'll also be able to mentor and coach those around you to build their confidence.

If you're ready to think and communicate more confidently, while knowing that you deeply matter, press the play button now.

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

I'm sure you've heard people talk about leadership development, and maybe you've wondered, how does it actually happen? How do people develop personally and professionally? With so many resources at our fingertips, it can be hard to know where to start.

Knowing the steps to professional development is key, because once you understand the process of change, you can put your energy into growing as a leader and human being. You can learn how to delegate more, set better boundaries, or even become a better colleague or parent.

In this episode, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum explains the 2 key steps to personal and professional growth simply and clearly. She explains how to approach your professional development more confidently and focused, so you can put attention to building new habits and thoughts that better serve you.

If you're ready for a clear roadmap to use to grow personally or professionally, press the play button now.

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If you don't have a solid and exciting elevator pitch, you are missing out on opportunities. Knowing what you offer and how you positively impact others can build you confidence and open the door to more productive networking conversations.

The good news is that creating a confident personal introduction doesn't have to be hard. What it does take is time to reflect and brainstorm around 3 key pieces of information that describe who you are and what you do.

In this episode, Deb Elbaum shares the dos and don'ts of the elevator pitch, and a simple 3-part template anyone can use. She'll take you through crafting your personal introduction, so you can feel more confident, clear, and purposeful.

If you're ready for a great answer to that question, "What do you do?" press the play button now.

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We are always negotiating with others at home and work. There are ideas we want to move forward, people we want to hire, and funding we want to secure. To create alignment takes buy-in from others. But what if you are not sure how to approach these conversations?

The key to getting buy-in is to make the conversation brain friendly. We can use communication strategies to help the listener's brain understand more clearly what our main points are, what's important to us, and what we're asking for.

In this episode, Deb helps equip you for your most important buy-in conversations and shares what you need to think about, how you need to approach it, and what's in your control.

If you want to communicate more confidently, clearly, and assertively, press the play button now.

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Are you tired of letting the challenging people in your life drain you and take up too much of your energy? Think of what it would be like if you could set better boundaries and have more clarity about what to do in a challenging interaction. You'd feel more confident, calm, and like a better leader.

The good news is that we always have things in our control that can help us feel more empowered in challenging situations. And, today, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares the 2 steps you need to remember and practice to keep your cool.

Having a toolkit of strategies that we can use and role model for others reminds us that we are more resilient and capable than we might think.

If you're ready to tackle challenging people with confidence, clarity, and 2 easy steps, press the play button now.

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