Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Someone asks you a direct question about confidential information. Be upfront about what you can and cannot talk about. Reaffirm your commitment to the other person or people who asked you about it and look for ways to support them or help them with what they need. 3) “I’m sorry, but I’m not able to talk about that.”

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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It is a universal story of development that we all experience throughout our lives. We spend most of our adult lives between two stages. Before moving on, a word is needed about the terminology. Horizontal development is about gaining more knowledge, skills, theory, methods, tricks, etc. Does that sound familiar?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

A few months into my work there, a man named Jack took me aside and said, “David, I noticed that when you come into our all-hands meeting, you walk straight up to the front row, sit down, open your notebook and are ready to take notes.” People will certainly learn about one another slowly over time, but why wait? Politely say “no”?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It’s like families refusing to talk about the tough stuff, and then one day Uncle Joe is throwing the Thanksgiving turkey off the balcony. Talk one-on-one with team members about what you can do to help. “I really care about this team, our work, and our collective success. Here’s the good news.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2023

We worked together to define our values. And we talk about them regularly. You did a fantastic job thinking about your culture and engaged the entire organization to define the values. You did a fantastic job thinking about your culture and engaged the entire organization to define the values. Can you feel their pain?

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We finished the description, and the committee chair thanked us for our input. And that might have been the end of the story, except for some sugar. The committee chair thought about it and smiled. Another way to think about this is by completing this sentence. Could we talk about ways we can connect more as a team?”

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International Coach Academy

APRIL 16, 2024

Blog 1: Maintaining balance: finding our ‘honey flow’ I love watching kids on a balance bike, moving along, tipping from left to right to find those moments of complete glide and balance. In fact, Dr. Maureen Gaffney in her book Flourishing talks about a least flourishing ratio of 3:1 of positive to negative thoughts to be happy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 13, 2023

And today, when our manager asked us for our ideas, that credit stealer immediately chimed in and shared MY idea as if it were her own. When we share this finding in our keynotes, you can hear always hear an audible, mmm hmm, sweep over the ballroom. One big reason is that it’s not too easy to talk about.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2023

Begin by acknowledging the situation and expressing your optimism about finding a resolution collaboratively. I care about __ (you, this team, this project) and I’m confident we can find a solution that we can all work with.” You’ve come together to talk about it. In front of your boss and all the people. I don’t trust you.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 7, 2023

We had a respectful and open conversation about our needs and agreed on what each party needed to change. That’s why so many people go for the diaper genie and wrap the conversation in so much self-protection that what they’re talking about has very little to do with what they really want to say. Connect with that “why.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2024

Let’s talk about how to find a great company culture that’s the right fit for you. 5 Steps to Finding a Great Company Culture in Your Job Search Hi Karin, I’m about to graduate from college and I’m starting to look for jobs. Look for patterns in the stories and reviews you find online.

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International Coach Academy

JANUARY 13, 2024

The comments that did not land as expected, the joke that did not get a laugh, the story that ended the conversation instead of engaging it, the too-long silences and not-sure-what-to-do-next moments that left me feeling so tired and utterly spent. She was anxious and doubtful about her future success. How do you find your way back?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 20, 2015

His mentor simply asked, “is this move part of your story?” In other words, what is the story you are looking to write with your life? What values does your story represent? How will you feel about that decision when you’re playing back the trailer? Of course we can’t write the whole story.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This “Asking for a Friend” question came in through our Let’s Grow Leaders Learning Lab during one of our recent leadership programs. I don’t want to escalate a problem, just to ask for the creativity and support that seems to boost results for other teams by sending a signal about priorities. Follow through.

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International Coach Academy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Throughout our time together I learned some valuable skills in coaching among which were: Active Listening Asking Powerful Questions Establishing the Coaching Agreement Client And Coach With Different Personalities Explain your process in detail I first started just trying my best to be an active listener. Start with the coaching agreement!

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The social isolation bruised our psyches. Choosing our bubble” of people created “us” and “them” dynamics that politics and social media made worse. The most common theme in our research? Closely followed by advice related to speaking up, talking about it, and addressing the problem head-on. “Be Be the bigger person.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 18, 2023

This can look like prioritizing long-term benefits by facing conflicts rather than avoiding them, working with and through difficult emotions with clarity, care, and connection, understanding the stories we live by and evaluating whether they’re serving us, or learning to listen and lead in ways that align with our mission and values.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How to Deal with a Lazy Coworker and Still Be Seen as a Team Player When I was a little girl, my mom loved to tell us the story of the Little Red Hen. In this sweet little children’s book, our little, plucky, red heroine stays focused on her MITs (most important things) and gives her barnyard friends plenty of chances to pitch in.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 9, 2023

You’ll get lessons and stories that will serve as a resource for you as you lead your employees, students, and others through the challenges of life and work, learning to create a positive impact and make a big difference in the lives of the people who follow you. It’s about having the courage to respond when we’re scared.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 29, 2023

In our leadership development programs, we help managers get better at remote team communication by tapping into four key principles of memory: recency, repetition, recall, and emotion. Recency Recency is all about sparking memory through recent experiences. Recall Recall is all about accessing information.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2023

While you can’t change what’s happened to you or how you’ve responded to it, within your unique stories are hidden strengths waiting to be discovered. 12:22 – How mindsets get embedded in our consciousness based on our experiences. Examining them and making choices about them is key.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 13, 2022

It merges true stories from the lived experiences of Wilkins with actionable insights backed by dynamic interdisciplinary research. This episode is for you if you’re ready to disrupt the way we think about traditional leadership standards and the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that have failed to make lasting change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

You’ll learn to make the most of your voice, body, and language; incorporate stories for emotional impact; build connection and rapport; work with visuals; deal with questions; present with others; and cope with the unexpected. 13:40 Confident uncertainty is about being able to be present and confident regardless of what comes your way.

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International Coach Academy

JANUARY 1, 2024

I will explore how we can apply these perspectives in navigating the in-between periods of our lives, and use them in coaching to support clients in facing the challenges of transition. As we grow, our brain creates a story from our experiences and over time a sense of self develops (Hull, 2018). Old is Gold?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2023

– Female, 47 Dubai (from our World Workplace Conflct and Collaboration Survey) You would think by now, we’d be past the need to write about dealing with a workplace bully. Many of these stories have two things in common. Here are two examples from our research. ” Sigh. We should all know better.

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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I strongly believe that everyone can unleash and actualize their potential if we know our unique strengths and have the tools to overcome their challenges. S = Story (or Situation). The coaching conversation begins with distilling the coachee’s story, and the present situation. And I will choose how the story ends.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Of course, leadership is not about being liked. This challenging and poignant question came up in one of our “ Asking For a Friend” segments following a recent keynote. We all have blind spots and opportunities to improve our leadership and gain respect. But here’s the long story short.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 10, 2023

One tool you receive when you participate in our foundational leadership development program is the Confidence Competence Model. Read more about retaining top performers here. One of the favorite parts of our jobs is helping people unleash and apply their genius. Start by getting curious about their perspective.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This challenging and poignant question came up in one of our “ Asking For a Friend” segments following a recent keynote. We all have blind spots and opportunities to improve our leadership and gain respect. In Courageous Cultures , I share a story of a well-intentioned manager who was coming across as a bully.

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International Coach Academy

JUNE 19, 2023

Having gone through these steps allow us to formulate our Dream goal that energizes ourselves and inspires others. The WORLD Coaching Model W ITHIN US The heart of the WORLD Coaching Model is what is happening inside us, in our hearts and our minds. We look at the world through our emotional and cognitive filters.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

I wanted to talk today about culture and specifically one of the barriers that gets in the way frequently when you’re trying to build culture and it might be rolling out new values in a team or all the way through an entire organization. Basically what we’re talking about is conflict between values.

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International Coach Academy

JANUARY 10, 2023

But rather more deep, profound… the uncertainty about how to continue in general and where to start from. Limiting ourselves to our beliefs and our identity sometimes plays in disadvantage to what and who we could become. What story would you rather be telling yourself? How can we make that story become your new reality?

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International Coach Academy

JANUARY 10, 2023

But rather more deep, profound… the uncertainty about how to continue in general and where to start from. Limiting ourselves to our beliefs and our identity sometimes plays in disadvantage to what and who we could become. What story would you rather be telling yourself? How can we make that story become your new reality?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

How do we move LGBTQ Inclusion from a “Check the Box” exercise to an integrated part of our culture? I also wanted to share with you my story about the power of authenticity and vulnerability, because I truly believe it is the key to everything I have achieved in my career in the last few years. AskingForaFriend.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Today on Asking for a Friend , we go old-school and talk about a very practical, and easy-to-implement technique for getting people’s attention and making an important first impression. Ok, so the story I share with you in this video is seriously right on point. How to Get Your Boss Excited About Your Great Idea.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In this episode about leading with laughter, Steve Cody and Clayton Fletcher discuss the role of humor in the workplace and how it can be used strategically to improve communication, build relationships, and create a healthy workplace culture.

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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Our approach involves developing a deep understanding of you in order to optimize and realize your untapped potential that has not been fully realized. Our session will include knowing your life stories, underlying style, and deeply held values. We will apply our THRIVE Model as our call to action. Our Coaches.

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