Welcome to the look and sound of leadership.

An ongoing series of executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived.

I'm Tom Henshiel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about how to grow your people.

Josh was intentional in his life.

He imbued his actions with purpose.

To him, work was a meaningful duty.

One part of his duty that he'd always enjoyed and taken seriously was developing his people.

In his current role as senior vice president, strengthening his bench felt more important than ever.

During our coaching conversations, he had shared his development goals for three of his direct reports.

There was Alicia, who needed to grow her emotional intelligence. There was Skip who needed

more diligence, and there was Nangham, who needed to think further ahead. He asked,

aside from giving each of them a coach, what's something reasonable I could do to help them?

Define reasonable,' I said.

"'Not eating a ton of my time and is going to get results,' he answered, without hesitation.

"'Am I wishing for the ridiculous here?'

"'Not necessarily,' I said.

"'But, Josh, I know you like developing people.

"'What have you done up until now?'

"'I mentor, give feedback, but it's random. Now, I have to get

these people moving. I would love some resource that would make it easy and effective. I said,

I have the structure for a development plan that's super efficient. It's just three conversations

over time. It might work. And it gets good results,

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