Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Jenny Maxwell shares why active listening is essential to leading your team at home and at work “Everybody’s basic needs are love, safety, and belonging, every human’s basic needs. We also want to feel seen and heard. When you’re in the habit of telling somebody what to do, that person is feeling invisible which is what I felt for a long time when I didn’t know how to use my voice and speak up and communicate calmly what my needs were and ask for help, even around the house. Using your voice and being given space to share what’s really going on with you, it requires the person on the other side of the table to sit and listen and give you that space. Not interrupt, not interject, not try and tell you what to do, just listen. That’s a very powerful tool to have and lots of people don’t have it. I notice, well I think actually on my coaching journey, like in the beginning. Because you know when you become a coach, you’re really your very first client because you’re applying everything, you’re learning to yourself. And what I realized was that most people in my circle had no idea what was going on with me because they didn’t ask.”

In this episode, personal development coach Jenny Maxwell talks about moving from Ireland with her husband and two sons. She shares about longing for Ireland and hoping their family’s stay in the U.S. would be temporary. She talks about her frustration when she used to be a people-pleaser, giving people solutions to their problems when they had not asked for her help solving them. She notes how volunteering for the local juvenile justice center empowered her to get out of her slump and become a personal development coach. She stresses the importance of active listening and how that describes her coaching work and at home with her children. She notes mindset and mindfulness can help you lead your team. She shares why she recommends leaders practice active listening at work to empower their team. She shares an inspiring story about a non-for-profit executive and how she helped stop micromanaging her team. She provides stimulating responses to questions posed including the differences between a leader exercising the power of their position versus exercising influence. She describes how she empowers her coaching clients blending active listening with probing questions. She shares tips to help leaders to lead their team at home and at work and a story about a client to inspire you.

To stay connected with Jenny, she invites you to connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram Her LinkedIn profile web address is: https://bit.ly/3soC0dy. The web address or her Facebook profile is: https://www.facebook.com/JennyMCoach. The web address for her Instagram profile is: https://www.instagram.com/jennymcoaching/. To learn more from Jenny Maxwell, her website is the website for this episode. She shares that she has digital downloads on her website that are affordable for those who want to put their toe in the water. She closes with this benevolent Call-to-Action especially for people-pleasers. 1) Instead of giving people unsolicited answers to their problems just listen. 2) Notice how empowering them by listening impacts you.

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