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 Henschel, your executive coach. place the way you want to be perceived.

I'm Tom Hengele, your executive coach,

and today we're talking about the human element.

My friend and colleague Mindy Dana and I were talking about our coaching practices.

So much of our work revolves around thinking deeply about the people we coach, it's helpful

to have a thought partner.

For months I'd been telling her about Nate, an executive at one of the studios who was a true creative star.

Hiring him had been a coup for the studio and they wanted to groom him into a fantastic executive.

One tool among many they were giving him was a coach who happened to be me.

Mindy had become enthralled with my portrait of a corporate star speeding down the highway of leadership success.

Of my most recent meeting with Nate, I told her, as we were sitting down, he mentioned that his whole department, 70-some people, is moving to a new

building at the end of the month, and he kept on talking, and I went, well, hold on, you're moving?

She asked, knowingly, he was minimizing it. Yeah, but I knew a move had to be a big

deal. The building they're in now is a legacy building.

People love working in that building because of its history.

When I heard they were moving, I asked him,

aren't people upset?

And are they, she asked? Of course. It's not as bad as it could be. The new space is still

a studio building. But it's newer and completely different. Even the space among the artists

is going to be different.

With a bit of confusion, she asked, and he wasn't tuned into that as an issue?

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