How to Turn on Your Executive Thinking
The Look & Sound of Leadership
Essential Communications - Tom Henschel
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A senior executive worries that his lieutenants are not being taken seriously by the senior leadership team. He discusses with a coach how to help his rising leaders accelerate their growth. This is that conversation.
We created a new free Essential Tool for you called “Executive Thinking.” It illustrates the “altitude” analogy Tom told during the episode. It also supports one of the four exercises you can do with your team.
Additional Essential Tools that support other exercises are “Before You Write Your Presentation” and “Sorting & Labeling.”
Liberating Structures is the free resource Tom was raving about. The specific exercise he mentioned was TRIZ.
Tom has talked about Liberating Structures in the episodes “How to Re-engage a Team” and “Leading Offsites.”
If you’re approaching year-end performance reviews, there are tools to support you – no matter which side of the review you’re on! – in Performance Reviews.
Tom referenced two shows that can help you learn Sorting & Labeling.
Coaching For Leaders with Dave Stachowiak: The Way to Make Sense to Others.
The Everyday Innovator with Chad McCallister: How Product Managers Look & Sound like Leaders.
This current episode is tagged in the library in three categories:
Perception – How You’re Perceived
In addition to the various episodes listed above, five that relate specifically to executive thinking are:
178 Executive Presence – Three Pillars
As we hurtle in our year-end traditions, stay mindful!
Tom and The Look & Sound of Leadership team.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the look and sound of leadership. |
| 0:06.9 | 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. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Tom Henshel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about how to turn on |
| 0:20.2 | your executive thinking. |
| 0:25.0 | His one had a vision for the leaders running his business unit. |
| 0:29.6 | There were roughly 40 of them and he wanted them to mature as leaders. |
| 0:35.1 | He was hoping I could create an event that might help them get there faster. |
| 0:39.1 | We arranged a lunch to trade ideas. |
| 0:41.8 | I was looking forward to seeing Reswin again. |
| 0:44.3 | Currently he was two years into his tenure at this Silicon Valley giant, but I'd first |
| 0:49.8 | known him ten or more years ago as a senior leader at a different tech giant. |
| 0:54.9 | Back then he had impressed me as razor sharp without being prickly. |
| 1:02.1 | During the years since then, when I would speak about the look and sound of leadership, |
| 1:07.4 | he was often one of the executives I'd picture as an exemplar. |
| 1:11.7 | Now over lunch, Res was sharing how the current situation had come to be. |
| 1:16.9 | He said one problem they had when I got here was that their promotions were all screwy. |
| 1:22.2 | There were no standards or procedures, so people got promoted for all kinds of reasons, |
| 1:26.9 | and now we're paying the price. |
| 1:28.2 | We have people in leadership roles who see themselves as team members, not team leaders. |
| 1:34.4 | I asked what's the impact of that? |
| 1:37.1 | They're failing with the senior leaders. |
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