305: How to Deal With the Diminishers, with Liz Wiseman
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Liz Wiseman: Multipliers
Liz Wiseman has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and named as one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world and recipient of the 2016 ATD Champion of Talent Award. She is the author of three best-selling books, including Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter*.
Key Points
- Some leaders make the people around them less capable.
- Leaders who diminish others get less than half of their capabilities.
- Diminishing often comes from good intentions.
- Leadership is a skill you can learn.
- A good boss sees the genius in others.
- Find a way to let your boss know what you’re best at.
- By admitting our own mistakes, we create an environment where others are willing to take risks.
- Ask yourself how you might be shutting down people’s ideas and capabilities.
Resources Mentioned
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (revised and updated)* by Liz Wiseman
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| 0:00.0 | Some people are multipliers, and some people are diminishers. |
| 0:04.0 | How do you become more like a multiplier? |
| 0:06.0 | And how do you deal with the diminisher? |
| 0:08.0 | Even if it's you? |
| 0:09.0 | Today, the way to navigate both. |
| 0:11.0 | This is coaching for leaders Leaders episode 300 and 5. |
| 0:16.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning Maximizing Human Potential. Thanks to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your |
| 0:30.2 | host Dave Stahovia. Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show gives |
| 0:36.6 | you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:43.4 | And welcome back if you've been listening for a while. |
| 0:46.8 | If you're listening for the first time, |
| 0:48.2 | I'm so glad to have you as part of the Coaching for Leaders |
| 0:51.3 | Listener community. |
| 0:52.4 | And today we're going to be talking about |
| 0:54.9 | Multipliers and diminishers the distinction between them but as is important if not more important is how do we deal with the diminishers in our lives and that we work with |
| 1:07.0 | and maybe that we even work for and today's guest is really going to help us to build a strategy and a skill set around handling |
| 1:16.3 | this well a reality that many of us navigate in organizations and I'm really |
| 1:19.8 | thrilled to welcome Liz Wiseman to the show. Liz teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world. |
| 1:26.0 | She is the president of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. |
| 1:32.0 | Liz has been listed on the Thinkers 50 ranking. from 2006 ATD Champion of Talent Award. |
| 1:43.5 | A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the vice president |
| 1:49.5 | of Oracle University and is the global leader for human resource development. |
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