Do you know the difference between delivering information and delivering a message for influence?

My guest today, Deb Coviello will break this down for us. Her tips will help you be seen, heard, and invited to the table at your company or organization.

To deliver a message that influences, your message needs to include:

• Data
• Trend
• Risk or Opportunity?
• Impact or Magnitude

All in the language that the person understands

How to have confidence when delivering a message:

• Tone of voice – be firm, don’t use sing-songy delivery
• Use affirmative language

 

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

• The difference between delivering information and delivering a message that influences
• The core components of a message that influences
• How to start acting at the next level
• How to have confidence when delivering a message that influences

Today, I want to talk about Agile. It is a term that gets misused and misunderstood a lot. If you are not a software developer, my goal is to help you better understand what this term is and how it is best used at companies. If you are a software developer, please listen to the episode anyway. I know you think you know what Agile is, but I want you to be able to help others understand it as well, and you’ll walk away from this episode with a better understanding of where agile DOESN’T work well. And if you are a project manager, same thing applies. You need to be able to explain to people when Agile is appropriate and when it is not. 

 

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

• What is the Agile Software Development methodology

• Why Agile is not right for project management

• The difference between software development and software implementation

 

How willing are you to be coached? Are you open to letting of others help you grow? My guest on this episode is Leslie Shea and she talks with me about why it is important to be coachable. We talk about why it is a really important skill for career advancement, and how we can build this skill:

• Look for opportunities to grow your confidence
• Become self aware
• Cultivate your curiosity

Here are some episodes that tie into our conversation:

Episode 35: Fixed vs Growth Mindset

 

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

• How to be more coachable
• Why learning agility is important
• How you can be more valuable to your employer
• Skills for building your coachability
• How to create a growth mindset
• How to talk to your manager about being coached

I'm passionate and inflexible when it comes to working during my vacation. And you should be too. In this episode, I give you my process for being able to go on vacation without putting my phone number in my out of office message.

Meetings, meetings, meetings. My guest this week for People Move Organizations is an expert at helping people create exceptional meetings. You’ll learn a lot this week from Greg Harrod when he shares the 3 fundamentals of effective meetings:

• Purpose – why are you bringing people together?
• People – who are the people needed to accomplish the purpose?
• Preparation – both as the leader of the meeting and to help the participants prepare

Here are some episodes that tie into our conversation:

Greg’s podcast: Connect Mobilize Deliver

Episode 10: Time Blocking

 

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

• 3 fundamental tips for running effective meetings
• Why it is important to know the purpose of the meeting
• Why it is important to invite the right people to the meeting
• Why it is important to prepare for the meeting
• What counts as a meeting
• How to be an effective participant in a meeting
• How to decline the meeting

Being vulnerable and authentic at work is sometimes hard to do.  It takes courage.

In this conversation with Ryan Seematter, we discuss why he feels that being vulnerable and authentic at work has been a part improving his confidence, passion and energy at work. Ryan’s tips for being authentic at work:

• Start small – with the people closest to you
• Ask for feedback
• Reach out to someone you haven’t spent time with but would like to know better
• Don’t be afraid of the differences – appreciate them for what they are

 

Here are some episodes that tie into our conversation:

Episode 17: Understanding Myers Briggs

Episode 49: Introduction to Enneagram

 

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• Why being vulnerable at work can improve your confidence
• Why people are afraid to tell their story at work
• How to build courage through authenticity
• How authenticity and networking are connected
• How to be authentic with your manager

We all get paid to solve problems.

This week, my guest on People Move Organizations is giving us some great tips for problem solving at work.  We talk about taking the emotion out of problem solving, listening, and giving someone time to vent before jumping in to solve their problems.

Here are some episodes that tie into our conversation:

Episode 7: Influencing Others

Episode 39: Self Control

  

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• How to take emotion out of problem solving
• Why it is important to listen when you are solving a problem
• Why you shouldn’t try to solve the problem too quickly
• Why it is important to understand your audience

What do I want to be when I grow up?

It is a question we’ve all asked ourselves.

In this episode, I talk with Elaine McClure about how we can achieve our career goals.

Elaine has a lot of great, practical tips for things you need to consider when you are thinking about what your next career step might be.

If you want more episodes about career growth, check out our career growth curriculum:

http://www.pmocoaching.com/careergrowth.html

 

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

• How to take your career to the next level
• Steps to determine what your next career step might be
• Why mentors are important in career development
• Things you should consider other than just money when looking at your career
• How to figure out what you want to do with your career
• A common misconception about being a manager

In this episode, I’m talking with Susan Wolfgang about why it is important to have a customer experience mindset regardless of the position your hold at your company. Customer experience is sometimes misunderstood, and Susan gives us a master class on the subject.

If you have one take away from this episode, it should be ‘does your customer have a seat at the table?’

In the episode, we talk about the important of understanding the full process. You might learn more from Episode 11 where I covered this topic in more detail:

Episode 11: System vs Process

 

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

• What is Customer Experience and why it is important
• Why customer loyalty is important
• How customers look at your company
• How you can have a customer mindset in any role
• Why it is important to think through the entire system before making policy or process changes

In this episode, I’m talking with Luke Mentzer about how each of us can look at our process and improve it in order to reduce the pain points you are feeling in your process. If you have a process that you think could be improved, you’ll get some great practical tips from Luke about how you can make improvements starting this week.

 

Episode 11: System vs Process

 

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• How to look at your process holistically when improving your process
• Why it is important to consider the constraints for the individual pieces of the process
• How to get buy-in from other stakeholders when you want to change your process