Playbook For Performance

Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of the Playbook for Performance podcast. It's been a while since the last episode and we are working hard on some new changes to the website, our offers, and things like that. So today, I want to cover the essential skills of an effective leader.  I've been doing some traveling lately and I've been running into people,  hearing about the problems that they're experiencing with their teams, staff, etc. And so,  what is it that makes an effective leader? 

I think there are three things that are essential for leaders to perform well. And I talk about this quite a bit. When it comes to what's going on for leaders today and the amount of change that we face regularly.

- The first is setting the vision and being sure to articulate what the end state looks like.

- There should also be clear expectations and agreements.

-  Lastly, ensure that once you know your employee has a value match, they're on board - Then look at capability and capacity.

Don't Forget: Invite your friends.

- Rising tide lifts all boats.

- Grow together

And that's it for this week. I hope these tips are helpful to you.

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So today, in the podcast, we continue with our theme about making the leader's life easier. And today’s topic is masterminding.  So, we got a little follow-up from last week when we were talking about group coaching. Masterminding is probably my favorite form of group coaching so much so that I used to have a business that exclusively focused on masterminds, and shout out to Christina. I hope you're doing well. 

So, for me, masterminding is the perfect entry point to one on one coaching. It's also the perfect place to go when you've graduated from one on one coaching. Now that seems like a dichotomy. So let me break it down

So, what's the difference between teams and groups? Let's go ahead and get into it.

Don't Forget: Invite your friends.

- Rising tide lifts all boats.

- Grow together

And that's it for this week. I hope these tips are helpful to you.

I'll be speaking at:

ICF Converge- Orlando, August

Have a question for me? Please email me: at  [email protected]

My mission is to make work fun again by building better leaders. Please find out more on my website: shawnacorden.com

Contact us at [email protected] for:

- Leadership Coaching

- Workshops - in-person/virtual

- Consulting and Mentoring in building a coaching culture- External, Internal, and Leaders with Coaching Skills.

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In today’s podcast, we will talk about team and group coaching because we have emphasized so much executive coaching, where it's that one-on-one experience with a coach who works with you, gives you that time to think out loud, etc. Or we've been talking about the leader as a coach where they are exhibiting and practicing coaching skills with their subordinates. But it doesn't always have to be the leader. It can be someone acting in that capacity, practicing those coaching skills with teams and groups.

So, what's the difference between teams and groups? Let's go ahead and get into it.

Don't Forget: Invite your friends.

- Rising tide lifts all boats.

- Grow together

And that's it for this week. I hope these tips are helpful to you.

I'll be speaking at:

ICF Converge- Orlando, August

Have a question for me? Please email me: at  [email protected]

My mission is to make work fun again by building better leaders. Please find out more on my website: shawnacorden.com

Contact us at [email protected] for:

- Leadership Coaching

- Workshops - in-person/virtual

- Consulting and Mentoring in building a coaching culture- External, Internal, and Leaders with Coaching Skills.

MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE AMAZON LINK:

https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Middle-Overcoming-Preventing-Polarization-ebook/dp/B0BSVPJ6CM?ref_=ast_author_dp

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To continue with this month's theme about making the leaders' life easier, we're going to talk about the applications of coaching. We've talked a little bit about the coaching conversation, and how it differs from performance management, but there are many ways you can use coaching that will really help you out. And again, make your life so much easier because instead of doing all the work or being the single brain for the entire staff, you will use that ask versus tell skill set to facilitate that. So let's get into it.

Don't Forget: Invite your friends.

- Rising tide lifts all boats.

- Grow together

And that's it for this week. I hope these tips are helpful to you.

I'll be speaking at:

ICF Converge- Orlando, August

Have a question for me? Please email me: at  [email protected]

My mission is to make work fun again by building better leaders. Please find out more on my website: shawnacorden.com

Contact us at [email protected] for:

- Leadership Coaching

- Workshops - in-person/virtual

- Consulting and Mentoring in building a coaching culture- External, Internal, and Leaders with Coaching Skills.

MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE AMAZON LINK:

https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Middle-Overcoming-Preventing-Polarization-ebook/dp/B0BSVPJ6CM?ref_=ast_author_dp

Subscribe to my official Youtube Channel and watch the full episode of this podcast by clicking the link below.

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In today’s podcast, we will be discussing the difference between using a coach approach as a leader or as a parent versus performance management. I know it's kind of tricky. We got a couple of emails about it so I want to get into it. Let's start from the very beginning. When talking about a coach approach, we're talking about using this methodology where you, as a leader, instead of having to do all the work yourself, be the brain that powers ten sets of hands. You set the vision, you make it very clear to people, and then what you do is you ask. So instead of telling them how to do it, you're going to ask them how they think it can best be accomplished. You empower them and give them some ideas. You partner with them in order for them to continue to own it, to innovate, and to continue to follow through until it's complete. So, for those of you who are parents, this is the same thing that we need to do with our children.

Don't Forget: Invite your friends.

- Rising tide lifts all boats.

- Grow together

And that's it for this week. I hope these tips are helpful to you.

I'll be speaking at:

ICF Converge- Orlando, August

Have a question for me? Please email me: at  [email protected]

My mission is to make work fun again by building better leaders. Please find out more on my website: shawnacorden.com

Contact us at [email protected] for:

- Leadership Coaching

- Workshops - in-person/virtual

- Consulting and Mentoring in building a coaching culture- External, Internal, and Leaders with Coaching Skills.

MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE AMAZON LINK:

https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Middle-Overcoming-Preventing-Polarization-ebook/dp/B0BSVPJ6CM?ref_=ast_author_dp

Subscribe to my official Youtube Channel and watch the full episode of this podcast by clicking the link below.

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One of the follow-up questions that I got from the last podcast was, can you go into more detail about how I do that coaching conversation as a leader? And so what I want to do today is to give you an e- outline of what that conversation looks like and a couple of things not to do. But do recognize like the full training on this is, you know, two days. And then if you want to be a professional coach, you know, credentialed by the ICF, etc. We're talking hundreds of hours of training, but, for the purposes of today's podcast, what we're trying to help you with is this idea of I'm a leader, I am letting go of my death grip on my employees, I'm tired of being a micromanager, I'm tired of command and control,  I'm tired of doing all the work. I want my employees to step up and I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt that they will step up and that I'm going to resist my urge to tell them what to do and advise them all the time. And I'm just going to embrace curiosity.

Don't Forget: Invite your friends.

- Rising tide lifts all boats.

- Grow together

And that's it for this week. I hope these tips are helpful to you.

I'll be speaking at:

ICF Converge- Orlando, August

Have a question for me? Please email me: at  [email protected]

My mission is to make work fun again by building better leaders. Please find out more on my website: shawnacorden.com

Contact us at [email protected] for:

- Leadership Coaching

- Workshops - in-person/virtual

- Consulting and Mentoring in building a coaching culture- External, Internal, and Leaders with Coaching Skills.

MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE AMAZON LINK:

https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Middle-Overcoming-Preventing-Polarization-ebook/dp/B0BSVPJ6CM?ref_=ast_author_dp

Subscribe to my official Youtube Channel and watch the full episode of this podcast by clicking the link below.

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Today, we will talk about a common frustration among my clients which is this idea of why I am working so hard. It's this idea that as a leader, you feel like you need to do everything in your power to control the results of what your organization is producing. However, there are more efficient ways to go about it. So I like to call that process command and control. It's this idea that I'm responsible for getting this to the organization, whatever it might be. It might be cutting costs, producing revenue, improving employee engagement, and improving customer satisfaction. It could be any of those categories. And in that process, you decide, okay, I own a quarter of this deliverable. Some of my peers own some of it too, and so I know what we need to do; here's my vision for what it's going to look like, how we're going to do it, and then you dictate to your people how we're going to accomplish this goal. Well, what do you think that does to your staff It doesn't motivate them because nobody likes to be told what to do. All kinds of research show that our brains shut down; the creative part of us shuts down when we are forced to do something we're told to do. And we are not naturally motivated to embellish, amplify, or add to it; we're in compliance mode, and compliance mode, unless we're internally motivated, is temporary.

I'll be speaking at:

ICF Converge- Orlando, August

Have a question for me? Please email me: at  [email protected]

My mission is to make work fun again by building better leaders. Please find out more on my website: shawnacorden.com

Contact us at [email protected] for:

- Leadership Coaching

- Workshops - in-person/virtual

- Consulting and Mentoring in building a coaching culture- External, Internal, and Leaders with Coaching Skills.

MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE AMAZON LINK:

https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Middle-Overcoming-Preventing-Polarization-ebook/dp/B0BSVPJ6CM?ref_=ast_author_dp

Subscribe to my official Youtube Channel and watch the full episode of this podcast by clicking the link below.

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This is our last in the series on business planning, and I hope you found it super helpful. As a recap, we started with the values for your company, team, and yourself. It's about how you're going to make decisions. Who is it that you're really serving, and then what is the vision? What do you want it to look like? Who are you serving? How are you serving them? All of those things are put together and then translating that vision into what we call a work breakdown structure. That’s putting work into individuals. You're going to break those into individual tasks that you can write on a post-it note and then sequence those tasks along the continuum of a year and then focus on 90 days at a time.

Today, we're going to talk about focusing on tracking those 90-day increments. If you don't track it, it will just go in a drawer, and people will ignore it. Then a year from now or whatever it is, you're going to go, well, how come we didn't get what we wanted done? How come we're still in the same place we were? Well, it's because you didn't track it. So let's get into that.

Don't Forget: Invite your friends.

- Rising tide lifts all boats.

- Grow together

And that's it for this week. I hope these tips are helpful to you.

I'll be speaking at:

SHRM - Las Vegas. June

ICF Converge- Orlando, August

Have a question for me? Please email me: at  [email protected]

My mission is to make work fun again by building better leaders. Please find out more on my website: shawnacorden.com

Contact us at [email protected] for:

- Leadership Coaching

- Workshops - in-person/virtual

- Consulting and Mentoring in building a coaching culture- External, Internal, and Leaders with Coaching Skills.

MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE AMAZON LINK:

https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Middle-Overcoming-Preventing-Polarization-ebook/dp/B0BSVPJ6CM?ref_=ast_author_dp

Subscribe to my official Youtube Channel and watch the full episode of this podcast by clicking the link below.

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Podcast Episode "CELEBRATE" link

https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/celebrate/id1582661308?i=1000607318525

Hi folks, welcome back. Thanks for your patience with us. I know you were eagerly awaiting step five in the business planning process, but I took a little holiday over to the ranch, had some golf and some sun, and it was great. So I'm eager to get back to you and ensure you can progress on your journey with business planning.

So what we're going to do is we're going to do a quick review of the business planning process. Today, we're going to talk about taking that work breakdown structure and recap what that means down to 90-day increments. So let's get started. So why 90 days? Why not 120 days? Etc. Well, people, in general, will not be able to do that. They're not overwhelmed by 90 days. If you think about a school calendar, it's often arranged in terms that are 12 weeks long. If you think about the seasons of the year, generally 12 or 13 weeks, people can organize their thoughts around it pretty easily. It's a very reasonable time to make progress. It's a lot easier to distinguish aspirations from behaviors. So what do I mean when I say that? Well, an aspiration is really where you want to go with the process. It's your vision. It's different. You can take several behaviors that will add up to that over time. And sometimes, people will confuse that goal or that aspiration or that vision with the actual behaviors that are required to fulfill that vision.

Don't Forget: Invite your friends

- Rising tide lifts all boats.

- Grow together

And that's it for this week. I hope these tips are helpful to you.

I'll be speaking at:

SHRM - Las Vegas. June

ICF Converge- Orlando, August

Have a question for me? Please email me: at  [email protected]

My mission is to make work fun again by building better leaders. Please find out more on my website: shawnacorden.com

Contact us at [email protected] for:

- Leadership Coaching

- Workshops - in-person/virtual

- Consulting and Mentoring in building a coaching culture- External, Internal, and Leaders with Coaching Skills.

MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE AMAZON LINK:

https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Middle-Overcoming-Preventing-Polarization-ebook/dp/B0BSVPJ6CM?ref_=ast_author_dp

Subscribe to my Youtube Channel to watch the full episode of this podcast

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We're in the middle of our business planning segment and have just cast the vision to know what the most beautiful business will look like. We've figured out our values. We're figuring out who we're serving, and now, we've painted the picture. What's it going to look like? Our next step is to chunk it down and bring it to life by translating that picture into actions that we can do daily. So let's get to it. 

So, a term I like to use comes from my project management and PMO background is WBS. Well, what's a WBS? A WBS stands for a work breakdown structure. It's a very fancy project management term, but it is like taking the vision and chunking it into bite-sized, manageable pieces. A true WBS is no more than eight hours of work. So you can think of that as a work day. Now that will be way too detailed for taking that vision and putting it in a three-year or one-year business plan. But depending on how robust your business is, you may not need that level of detail. So what we want to do is deconstruct that big piece and figure out what it takes to achieve it.

Don't Forget: Invite your friends

- Rising tide lifts all boats.

- Grow together

And that's it for this week. I hope these tips are helpful to you.

I'll be speaking at:

• SHRM - Las Vegas. June

• ICF Converge- Orlando, August

Have a question for me? Please email me: at  [email protected]

My mission is to make work fun again by building better leaders. Please find out more on my website: shawnacorden.com

Contact us at [email protected] for:

- Leadership Coaching

- Workshops - in-person/virtual

- Consulting and Mentoring in building a coaching culture- External, Internal, and Leaders with Coaching Skills.

MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE AMAZON LINK: 

https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Middle-Overcoming-Preventing-Polarization-ebook/dp/B0BSVPJ6CM?ref_=ast_author_dp