302: How to Challenge Directly and Care Personally, with Kim Scott
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Kim Scott: Radical Candor
Kim Scott is a co-founder of Candor, Inc. She has been an advisor at Dropbox, Kurbo, Qualtrics, ReelGoodApp, Rolltape, Shyp, Twitter, and several other Silicon Valley companies. She is the author of the book Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing your Humanity*.
Key Points
- Show you care at a personal level.
- You can’t build a relationship that’s not personal.
- In order to care personally for someone, you have to bring your whole self, not just your “business” persona.
- Sometimes we get so focused on the work that we forget there’s actually a person doing the work.
- Begin by soliciting feedback, not by giving it.
- To get feedback, come up with a go-to question like “Is there anything I could do or stop doing that would make it easier to work with me?”
Resources Mentioned
- Radical Candor* by Kim Scott
- Radical Candor podcast
Book Notes
Download my highlights from Radical Candor in PDF format (free membership required).
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- Start With Why, with Simon Sinek (episode 223)
- How to Manage Abrasive Leaders, with Sharone Bar-David (episode 290)
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| 0:00.0 | We all know we should be giving people direct feedback, but can you do it in a way that demonstrates |
| 0:06.3 | genuine care and concern for the other person? |
| 0:10.0 | Today's guest says yes and is ready to show us how. |
| 0:13.4 | This is Coaching for Leaders episode 302. |
| 0:17.4 | Produced by Innovate Learning |
| 0:19.9 | Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:29.4 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made and |
| 0:36.3 | this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader and I'm really glad that you |
| 0:45.3 | joined us for today's conversation because today I'm so pleased to have an expert |
| 0:50.5 | with us that is really going to help us to frame how to show up as our |
| 0:57.8 | whole selves in the workplace and so many of us have learned either intentionally or unintentionally as we entered the professional |
| 1:06.0 | workspace that we need to leave ourselves at the door a little bit. |
| 1:10.0 | And unfortunately that doesn't tend to service as well as it probably could if we showed up with our whole selves. |
| 1:16.0 | And yet a lot of times we don't know the practical framework in order to do that and that's why I'm really glad to welcome today's |
| 1:23.0 | guest today because she's really an expert in helping leaders to embrace |
| 1:28.4 | radical candor and she is the co-founder of Candor Inc. |
| 1:33.4 | And my guest today's name is Kim Scott. |
| 1:36.0 | She has been an advisor at Dropbox, Kerbo, Qualtrix, Real Good App, |
| 1:40.9 | Roll Tape, Shep, Twitter, and several other Silicon Valley companies. |
| 1:45.5 | She was a member of the faculty at Apple University, and before that led AdSense, YouTube, |
| 1:51.4 | and double-click online Sales and Operations at Google. |
| 1:55.2 | She's also been a senior policy advisor at the FCC, managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo, |
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