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By Essential Communications - Tom Henschel
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The podcast currently has 249 episodes available.
A leader and her coach discuss a three-step model for turning upward feedback into a learning conversation that might allow the boss to hear the message.
This month’s coaching conversation explores whether feedback should be given upwards in the first place. If so, are there ways to deliver the feedback effectively?
Download the free “Giving Upward Feedback” PDF.
In the commentary, Tom tells a story about the Marshmallow Test being debunked. Here’s the column he mentions.
This episode is tagged in the library in three categories:
Communication Skills
Feedback
Managing Up
Five related episodes you might listen to are:
74 Dealing with Emotional Responses
14 Delivering Tough Feedback
32 Giving Powerful Feedback
118 Perception is Reality
99 The Disruptive Executive – Part One
Be in touch with Tom here.
Grab a free transcript of the episode here.
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From all of us here at The Look & Sound of Leadership, thanks!
Knowing she’ll need to network to achieve her career goals, an ambitious leader asks her coach what a good networking conversation actually sounds like.
Resources for Building Your Networking Skills
Leverage the latest algorithm on LinkedIn with this research report.
Coaching For Leaders podcast: “How to Grow Your Professional Network”
Coaching For Leaders podcast: “Executive Presence with Your Elevator Speech”
10 Rules for Networking
Link to 10 Rules of Networking PDF in Essential Tools bin
Sorting & Labeling
Link to Sorting & Labeling PDF in Essential Tools bin
The Look & Sound of Leadership: “Assume Equality”
The Look & Sound of Leadership: “Being Concise”
This month’s episode is in the podcast archive in three categories:
For Women
Relationship Building
Social Skills
Five episodes to grow your networking skills:
162 - Acting on the Corporate Stage
180 - Becoming Expert
193 - Branding Yourself
176 - The Executive Impostor
192 - Pursuing a Promotion 2020
Grab a free transcript of this episode here.
Be in touch with Tom here.
We share more resources in our monthly Essential News email. Sign up here.
Listen to Tom’s conversation with Scott Ritzheimer on “Secrets of the High Demand Coach.”
COACHES!
Join us at the Executive Coaching Special Interest Group sponsored by ICF Los Angeles. You’ll get CCE’s, too!
From all of us here at The Look & Sound of Leadership, thanks!
#podcast#leadershipnetworking#growyournetwork#professoinalconnections#networkingskills#leadershipdevelopment#networkbuilding#careerconnections
An ambitious leader knows she’ll need to network to achieve her career goals. But, to her, networking feels slimy, so she asks her coach for help.
Some core concepts from this episode:
Listen to Tom’s “Flow” and “Fall” stories on the Coaching Stories podcast with Dr. Sam Humphrey.
COACHES!
Join us at the Executive Coaching Special Interest Group sponsored by ICF Los Angeles. You’ll get CCE’s, too!
https://www.icfla.org/special-interest-groups-2/
Be in touch with Tom here.
Please help yourself to the free resources in our Essential Tools bin including one called “10 Rules of Networking.”
This month’s episode is in the podcast archive in three categories:
For Women
Relationship Building
Social Skills
Five episodes to grow your networking skills:
42 - The Art of Chat
58 - Elevator Speeches
242 - Mastering Nerves
129 - Mentoring & Mentors
66 - Networking
Tom also mentioned an episode called Conquering People Pleasing.
Grab a free transcript of the episode here.
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From all of us here at The Look & Sound of Leadership, thanks!
Before testifying in a high-stakes case, a theorist and his coach swap horror stories about their nerves hijacking them and the lessons they learned.
Tom’s Top Three Ideas for Mastering Nerves:
Here is the clip of Emma Stone battling her anxiety.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkN0sPQ76E0
Email Tom and tell him he’s crazy here.
For Coaches! 2 Resources!
1. Coaching Stories Podcast
2. Executive Coaching Special Interest Group sponsored by ICF-LA. CCE’s given!
Tom’s conversations with Neha Singh on “Bridge to Leadership” podcast are here and here.
Please help yourself to the free resources in our Essential Tools bin.
This episode lives in the podcast archive in these three categories:
Managing Yourself
Nervousness
Self-Talk
Five episodes to help conquer your people pleasing tendencies:
Act “As If”
Choosing Persistence
Conquering Fear
The Executive Impostor
The Many Parts of You
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From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, thanks!
Angry at himself for continually putting others’ needs before his own, a leader turns to his coach for tools. He learns a new way to think and a behavior to try.
Be in touch with Tom here.
Listen to Tom’s conversations with Neha on “Bridge to Leadership” podcast here and here.
Our Essential Tools bin has free resources to help you build your look and sound of leadership.
G.W. Bailey’s imdb page is here.
This episode lives in the podcast archive in these three categories:
For Women
Managing Yourself
Self-Talk
Five episodes to help conquer your people pleasing tendencies:
188 Boundaries
165 The Conflict Conversation
220 Holding Boundaries
219 How to Set Boundaries
116 Speaking Your Truth
Grab a free transcript of the show here.
Our monthly Essential News email provides links to even more resources. Sign up here.
From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, thanks!
A vice president, struggling to control his team of artists, learns a technique for managing bad behavior from his coach. He likes it so much, he uses it with his high performers, too.
The tool described in this episode is simple to understand but may take a bit of courage to implement.
Courage can be taught. Brené Brown created her Dare to Lead course for exactly that purpose. Ready to build your courage? Reach out to us here.
Find more resources to build your skills in the podcast archive. Search these categories:
Assertiveness
Feedback
Management Skills
Five episodes you might listen to are:
#47 Discussing Difficult Behaviors
#18 Holding People Accountable
#138 Managing Disruptive Executives
#127 Managing Performance: Up or Out
#65 Sorting & Labeling
A free infographic for Sorting & Labeling is in our Essential Tools bin. Help yourself to that and all the others.
Thinking about developing someone in your organization, or yourself? Reach out to Tom here.
Grab a free transcript of the show here.
Our monthly Essential News email provides links to even more resources. Sign up here.
From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, thanks!
#podcast #managingbadbehavior #leadershippodcast #leadershipchallenges #behaviormanagement #leadershiptips #leadershipdevelopment
A leader is so furious with his self-absorbed boss, he considers quitting the company. He asks his coach to help him manage himself and defuse his triggers.
In addition to the five strategies Tom talks about in this episode, there are lots more strategies in his conversation with Dave Stachowiak on Coaching For Leaders “How to Deal with a Boss Who’s a Jerk.”
Tom’s wide-ranging conversation with Josh Dittmer can be found here.
Free tools to support your professional development are in our Essential Tools bin. Please help yourself.
Ready to explore coaching? Reach out to Tom here.
Other episodes to help you manage yourself in difficult workplace relationshipsare:
Looking for a transcript of the show? Download it here.
Our monthly Essential News email provides links to even more resources. Sign up here.
Thanks to all of you, from Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership.
Happy, healthy, safe new year!
Tired of losing to more savvy players, a leader seeks to decode the secrets of playing politics, focusing particularly on company culture.
Download our free Political Style Chart here.
“The Secret Handshake” is a great tool for mastering workplace politics.
Looking for a transcript of the show? Read it here.
More tools are in our podcast library. This episode is in three categories:
For Women
Perception – how you perceive others
Relationship Building
Here are five episodes to help develop your political savvy:
188 - Boundaries
210 - How to grow your self-management
67 - “I hate politics”
142 - The Mindful Executive
121 - Your Goodwill Bank Account
Our monthly Essential News email provides links to even more resources. Sign up here.
Let us know how we can support you.
Happy, healthy, safe new year. I look forward to being with you all in 2024.
From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, Happy New Year! And thanks!
A leader feels stuck. She sees others winning resources she felt should have been hers, but she hates playing politics. What to do?
Download our free Political Style Chart here.
“The Secret Handshake” is a great tool for mastering workplace politics.
Many more tools are in our podcast library. This episode is in three categories:
Self-Talk
Leadership
For Women
Here are five episodes to help develop your political savvy:
187 - Agreeable Disagreement
215 - How to Stay Calm Under Fire
192 - Pursuing a Promotion
207 - Tough Conversations
67 - “I Hate Politics”
Our monthly Essential News email provides links to even more resources. Sign up here.
JAPAN!
Email me with your suggestions for what we should not miss in Japan this December! [email protected]
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Be kind to yourself. Things are rough out there! From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, be well! And thanks!
A leader, surrounded by people she knows and trusts, can’t seem to get traction with them. In conversation with her coach, she discovers an unexpected cause.
Tools for teams abound in this episode.
The four tools Tom suggests as first steps for helping your team openly discuss ideas are:
The Gradients of Agreement tool supports the ideas in this episode. Download it for free from our Essential Tools bin along with other communication tools like Sorting & Labeling.
Additional tools for team growth mentioned in this episode are the classic Crucial Conversations and Tom’s conversation on The cATalyzing Podcast.
This episode is in our podcast library in three categories:
Communication Skills
Leading Teams
Management Skills
Specific episodes that will help you develop your team are:
Facilitating Open Dialogue
How Teams Fight
Leadership Behavior in Meetings
Power Tools for Teams: Plus/Delta
Questions as Leadership
Taming Meetings
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To those of you who post reviews, thank you so much for supporting the show.
Let us know how we can support you.
Until next month, from Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, be well! And thanks!
#podcast #TeamDecisionMaking #Teamwork #Leadership #ConsensusBuilding #EffectiveTeams #TeamCommunication #TeamLeadership
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