In this week’s episode, I am joined by Victoria Trammel! Victoria Trammel is a seasoned facilitator and leadership consultant who brings almost two decades of experience supporting the Intelligence Community to her work with Arbinger Institute, a world leader in mindset change.

 

Through training, consulting, coaching, and implementation programs, Arbinger enables individuals, teams, and organizations to change from the default self-focus of an inward mindset to the impact-focus of an outward mindset.

 

Victoria began her career in joint counterterrorism operations, igniting a love of instructional design and facilitation while supporting partners around the globe. She has indispensable hands on, real-world experience of creating organizational culture change through the Outward mindset.

 

She now thrilled to be sharing word about the new and revised 4th Edition of Arbinger’s book Leadership and Self Deception: The Secret to Transforming Relationships and Unleashing Results. Victoria has a beautiful, blended family of 6 that enjoys planning vacations around experiencing different cultures through the power of food.

 

Key Points

• Self-deception’s effect on marriages

• Curiosity: A High-Performer's Superpower

• Impact of little efforts on loved ones

• Self-deception can blind us

• Get curious to understand others' perspectives.

• Leadership evolves with empathy

 

Best Quotes

09:51 - 09:58

• "Well, and I think that curiosity is key, right? Because it's very easy for me as a leader to get up here and pontificate, right? I'm communicating."

11:19 - 11:23

• "It's, it's often when the other person paints you as something you're not."

14:34 - 14:39

• "And I think that's what, like, it's a great way to almost practice, right? Because it is a skill."

41:41 - 41:51

• "I think a lot of what we talk about at home is, is our kids, you know, we, we don't talk about necessarily inward versus outward, but we talk about understanding your impact on others, right?"