Hello again , I hope you are well?
Today I'm looking at another of the coaching frameworks developed by Andrew Neitlich in the Coach Master Toolkit. There are many more, and I'm licensed for a couple
of them.
So let's dive into this week's thrilling instalment!
Engage and Mobilise Employees
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Every leader has to get their employees on side - but how best to do this? If it doesn't happen, then the bottom line is that the undertaking will at best not do as well as it might, and at worst,
entirely fail.
So again, like the framework I shared last time, this provides a basis for a systematic inquiry into what's going on and where you can act for the most effect.
It's tailored to your individual situation so that you can get the most out of it.
Areas covered include
- reflecting on your own experience of your best and worst managers (we've all had at least one of each!)
- knowing your employees as individuals
- developing engaging messages
- having clear expectations
- recognize and acknowledge
All this feeds into a measurable action plan to make the most improvements you can. You can book a free call with me to hear more if this
sounds like something you need right now.
Many professionals may signal their high status membership of certain professions by using jargon that is incomprehensible to the rest of us, showing that they belong and we don't. It can feel quite
uncomfortable if you're on the receiving end of such talk.
However, you may now be armed with the smug understanding that some people, who are not actually of such 'high' status - try to use such language to compensate for their own feelings of
inferiority. The British Psychological Society reports this neat bit of research and goes on to say that it's not entirely clear how often such people are found out - but meanwhile it seems to me a good thing to say, Let's do this new thing, rather than, Let's be the first mover here!
I've previously recommended one of Dr Iain McGilchrist's books, and today's suggestion is one of his earlier ones: The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning. It's a shorter introduction to the more extensive later work of this literary scholar turned neuropsychiatrist and philosopher.
It asks why is the human brain (and almost every other creature's) divided into two halves? It seems to be about how each side pays attention. Imagine you are a little bird pecking for seed on the ground; whilst you need to pay focussed attention to what's going into your beak, you also need another kind of attention, more general
and background, to notice the predator who is intent on having you for lunch.
He then relates these different kinds of awareness to the way we are now, suggesting that we have gone too far over to the left hemisphere tendency of reductionism and mechanistic thinking, forgetting the wider, more balanced view of the right. It's all very compelling and I think it's one of the most important works of
modern times.
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Thanks for your time, - have a good weekend, keep safe, and I'll be in touch again in a couple of weeks,
All best wishes,
Barbara
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