Welcome back 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 Henshel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about how to turn on

your executive thinking.

His one had a vision for the leaders running his business unit.

There were roughly 40 of them and he wanted them to mature as leaders.

He was hoping I could create an event that might help them get there faster.

We arranged a lunch to trade ideas.

I was looking forward to seeing Reswin again.

Currently he was two years into his tenure at this Silicon Valley giant, but I'd first

known him ten or more years ago as a senior leader at a different tech giant.

Back then he had impressed me as razor sharp without being prickly.

During the years since then, when I would speak about the look and sound of leadership,

he was often one of the executives I'd picture as an exemplar.

Now over lunch, Res was sharing how the current situation had come to be.

He said one problem they had when I got here was that their promotions were all screwy.

There were no standards or procedures, so people got promoted for all kinds of reasons,

and now we're paying the price.

We have people in leadership roles who see themselves as team members, not team leaders.

I asked what's the impact of that?

They're failing with the senior leaders.

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