The Democratic 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 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A new leader worries about having to become a dictator in order to meet her goals. She and her coach explore the challenges inherent in trying to be a truly democratic leader.

Core concepts in this episode:

When pressured, many leaders revert to giving orders.
People need time to feel safe speaking up to a new leader.
A democratic leader doesn’t have to give everyone their way, just give everyone their say.
When listening to ideas, just listen. Don’t fix or tweak or improve.

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Categories in the archive related to this episode are:
Leading Teams
Leadership
Perception – How You’re Perceived

Related episodes are:

How Teams Fight
Inviting Dialogue
Psychological Safety
Taming Meetings
The Conflict Conversation

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In this episode, Tom mentioned:

A progressive elementary school in Van Nuys, CA. The school is Children’s Community School.

Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office by Lois Frankel

Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

Tom’s conversation with Ben Ritter on “The Live for Yourself Revolution.”

COACHES! Join Tom at the Executive Coaching Special Interest Group sponsored by the Los Angeles Chapter of ICF. Non-members pay $10 to attend. This month’s topic: Team & Group Coaching.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership, an ongoing series of executive coaching
0:07.8	tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived.
0:13.7	I'm Tom Henshel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about the Democratic
0:19.6	Leader.
0:23.2	Shalon was chief medical officer at a regional clinic.
0:27.4	Her clinic, along with seven others, had been bought by a national corporation and unified
0:33.1	into a network.
0:35.0	The corporate owners had noticed Shalon, and they were promoting her to chief medical
0:40.4	officer for the entire region.
0:43.0	All eight medical officers at the clinics, seven of whom had been her peers, would soon
0:47.5	be reporting to her.
0:50.0	Shortly after she heard that news, she reached out to me asking for help thinking about
0:54.2	her new role.
0:55.2	I asked what her concerns were.
0:58.0	She said, too, I think, maybe more, but two that I've been thinking about the most.
1:02.9	One is just getting them to acknowledge I'm the boss.
1:06.4	I asked, why wouldn't they acknowledge you're the boss?
1:09.2	Your promotion's been announced hasn't it?
1:11.8	She gave a roofal laugh.
1:13.8	That doesn't always mean so much in the clinics.
1:16.2	We haven't been owned all that long.
1:18.8	Not everyone is sure we like this corporate overlord system, and here I am crossing over
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