Here's what we've got in this issue of the All Personal Leadership News:
1. Backstage - behind the scenes of coaching: how it works and why you might benefit from having a coach! 2. Motivation Moment: LIVE Event 'Supercharge Your Small Business: Top 5 Assessments to Build a Team for the Big League' 3. Just One Learning Bite: this week, a book that connects the dots between fun, creativity, productivity, trust... all of the good stuff we want to bring in both our personal AND professional lives!
1. Backstage: how you might benefit from having a coach
<<First Name>>, as a leadership coach, this picture describes one of the best pieces of feedback to receive from a client: being on their '12 things they've never done before' list and accompanying them on a journey of self discovery and self empowerment.
I'm so honoured, thankful and happy to have joined my client Bonnie in her journey!
Her post also inspired me to write this for you, if you might consider adding working with a coach on your own top 12 list of new things to do this year. 😀
Because, sometimes, working with a coach is not the obvious choice, and especially when you've never done that before!
If you're a professional considering it for this year, below are some of the coaching themes and goals that my clients came to work with me on.
Hope this provides some clarity for you on how you might benefit from working with a coach, too.
1. managing uncertainty
successfully navigating and building strong relationships with peers and direct manager, influencing vs controlling, clarifying and aligning expectations, adapting to a new workplace culture and organization changes
2. managing the team
motivating others, leading direct reports effectively, giving feedback, communicating with clarity, planning, delegating and executing
3. moving up
building up presence, understanding personal leadership style, clarifying desired career path, promotion opportunities and next steps
4. self-development for professional success
identify core strengths and motivation drivers, levelling up skills, building up confidence, building a strong emotional and social intelligence muscle, maximizing impact, developing strong personal leadership
Important reminders:
- Coaching means facilitating individuals or groups to draw on their own experiences and capabilities to set and reach their own objectives.
- The coach is the expert in the coaching process.
- YOU are the expert on your own life journey!
Embarking on a coaching journey is truly an All Personal decision.
If you're curious to know more about coaching and how it typically works, please email me.
I'm happy to give you more details and answer all your questions.
NO strings attached, I am super passionate about coaching so always happy to talk about it if it helps you make a well-informed decision to start coaching or not, with me as a coach or not!
2. Motivation Moment: LIVE Event - 'Supercharge Your Small Business: Top 5 Assessments to Build a Team for the Big League'
<<First Name>>, I'm joining Emanuel Petrescu, SEO & Digital Marketer, on his How About Some Marketing webinar series, on 25 January at 7 pm EST.
We’ll discuss: - Assessment tools I’ve seen working for other co-founders and business owners - Individual assessments vs team assessments – what they measure and when to use them - Personality vs energy for impact – what’s the difference and why it matters in the business cycle
IMPORTANT
While this event is mainly catered to small business owners and co-founders, it also benefits you if you are:
- looking to be promoted to or are already a team leader or team manager, at any seniority level - part of a the hiring or training team in your organization, involved in processes from hiring to retaining - an HR or L&D professional looking to expand your horizons and knowledge of assessment tools you might use in your organization for successful people projects
Many of the leaders I’ve worked with never had the training they needed to understand how to form and lead a team – from hiring to developing and retaining!
Even if (or especially when) that team has only 2 members, the co-founders!
I often hear them say
‘What would make us work better together?’
‘I don’t know how to make sure I’m hiring the right person for the job’
‘I’m not good with managing people’
‘I wish I knew some techniques and strategies I can use to motivate my team’.
They also wish they’d understand more about what makes themselves motivated and engaged, have more in-depth knowledge about their own strengths and understand how they can use their strong skills muscles better to create the success they want!
Truth is, a bad hire or partnership costs a lot – in terms of time, energy and money.
Truth is also that a great one helps build success on so many levels, long term!
Let’s start with some answers on what to look at when it comes to personality, impact & motivation, so you can boost your your own and your team’s success.
Register to join us live - if you can't make it live, you'll still get the recording and materials.
<<First Name>>, 'It turns out our brains are literally hard wired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive. Yet in today's world, we ironically sacrifice happiness for success only to lower our brains' success rates. Our hard-driving lives leave us feeling stressed, and we feel swamped by the mounting pressure to succeed at any cost.' (Shawn Achor, 'The Happiness Advantage')
This is the book I wanted to share with you in this week's informal leadership learning club - 'Just One Learning Bite'.
It's one of the books I keep recommending in the team workshops or coaching sessions I run.
Title: 'The Happiness Advantage'
Author: Shawn Achor
Description: 'A must read for anyone wishing to flourish in a world of increasing stress and negativity, 'The Happiness Advantage' reveals how small shifts in our mind-set and habits can produce big gains at work, at home and elsewhere.'
Why I love it? Because it is practical and provides real-life examples, case studies and research that make us re-think our approach to happiness - which impacts how we define success for ourselves, both at home and at work!
Great read, which reminded me all the way why business success is all personal - and how it's all connected to 'mindsetting' as a verb, not a noun.
PS: for those of you who've read it already, what resonated most with you?
