576: How to Help People Engage in Growth, with Whitney Johnson

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Whitney Johnson: Smart Growth Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in America. As one of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. She has worked at FORTUNE 100 companies, and as an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street. Whitney co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with the late Clayton Christensen. She has coached alongside Marshall Goldsmith, selected by him in 2017 as a Top 15 Coach out of a pool of more than 17,000 candidates. She is the author of Disrupt Yourself and the host of the podcast of the same name. She is also the author of Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company*. In this conversation, Whitney and I explore a big reality of growth; it’s often slow at the start. We discuss three practical steps that leaders can take for both themselves and others to stay engaged during the early stages of growth. Key Points Auditing some of your roles, secrets, beliefs, values, and boundaries will help you move forward along the growth path. Listen to the stories that others tell and help them link past experiences with what’s important today. Images are a critical entry point to growth. Utilize them in addition to the new behavior itself to begin to frame your thinking and identity. Circle back after receiving feedback and show others what you’ve learned from it and how it’s changed your behavior. That motivates them to stay invested. Use “I am” statements that have a noun rather than a verb. Instead of “I run,” consider saying, “I am a runner.” Resources Mentioned Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company* by Whitney Johnson Interview Notes Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes How to Become the Person You Want to Be, with James Clear (episode 376) How to Motivate Leaders, with John Maxwell (episode 452) How to Win the Long Game When the Short-Term Seems Bleak, with Dorie Clark (episode 550) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	You know that part when you begin learning something new and it's actually worse?
0:05.0	Of course, you're not yet good at whatever you're learning, but unlike before you started,
0:10.0	now there's a ton of evidence about how tough it really is.
0:14.0	When you're in that place yourself, or perhaps supporting someone else who is,
0:19.0	this episode will help.
0:21.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 576.
0:26.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:35.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:37.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahofiak.
0:42.0	Leaders aren't born, they're made.
0:44.0	And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.
0:50.0	As leaders so many of us care so deeply, certainly about our own growth.
0:55.0	And also, of course, about the growth of the people we have the privilege to work with each day.
1:01.0	I am so excited for our conversation today because it's with an expert on growth
1:06.0	of helping us to really look at what we can do from a leadership perspective,
1:11.0	not only for ourselves, of course, but for others, on how we can really help others to begin smart growth.
1:17.0	I'm so pleased to introduce Whitney Johnson to you.
1:20.0	She is the CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company, Disruption Advisors,
1:25.0	and Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company in America.
1:30.0	As one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers 50,
1:34.0	Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership.
1:37.0	She has worked at Fortune 100 companies and is an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street.
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