Essential Skills that Shaped a Leader

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

Education, Executive Presence, Management, Careers, Executive Coaching, Self-improvement, Business

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A senior leader, having risen through the ranks, ends her coaching engagement by comparing notes with her coach about the skills that have helped her most.

This episode identified seven essential leadership skills:

Conquer catastrophic thinking;
Use fewer words;
Value relationships as highly as results;
Don’t take anything personally;
Commitment to Development;
Reflection;
Speak for Yourself.

Resources to develop those last three:

Commitment to Development

The Executive Executive – an episode with a different list of essential skills
Four Factors Executives Need to be Successful – another list of essential skills thenschel@essentialcomm.com – my email address if you want help thinking about your own development

The Ability to Reflect

Speak for Yourself

The Four Agreements – Agreement #1: “Be Impeccable with Your Word”

Episodes to build assertion:

This month’s episode lives in our podcast library in these three categories:

Executive Presence
Leadership
Self-Talk

Five episodes to help you with different skills are:

Building Empathy
“Don’t Take Anything Personally”
The Executive Executive
Personal Connections
Short Sounds Confident

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All our infographics are available to you for free in the Essential Tools bin.

Let us know how we can support you.

Until next month, be well!

From Tom and everyone at The Look & Sound of Leadership, thanks!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the look and sound of leadership.
0:06.8	An ongoing series of executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the
0:11.4	workplace the way you want to be perceived.
0:14.6	I'm Tom Henshel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about essential skills
0:19.6	that shaped a leader.
0:23.5	KC and I were celebrating a bittersweet event.
0:27.2	Her coaching was ending.
0:29.6	Again, for now.
0:33.6	She and I had first worked together when she was a young rising star at her global firm.
0:38.3	The company felt she could become a future leader, but only if she learned to play more
0:43.2	nicely in the sandbox with others.
0:46.8	To help her, they had given her a coach, me.
0:51.0	That initial coaching had gone very well.
0:54.7	Over the years, she and I worked together several more times.
0:58.0	I had a front row seat as she made her way up an extremely competitive ladder.
1:03.7	Now she was poised for a promotion that would have her reporting directly to the CEO.
1:09.9	She had achieved a lot.
1:12.9	KC didn't take her achievements for granted.
1:15.4	She knew she had worked hard for them.
1:17.9	She was proud that her very first 360 degree feedback report had been full of words like
1:24.2	rough edges, harsh, judgemental, and sharp elbows, while her most recent report was a blanket
1:32.2	of words like generous, kind, caring, and inspirational.
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