The Mindful Executive

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

Education, Executive Coaching, Self-improvement, Executive Presence, Careers, Business, Management

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

From the Harvard Business Review to the New York Times, mindfulness is widely touted as a powerful tool to increase personal effectiveness and well-being. This month’s Executive Coaching Tip explores the “how to” of being mindful with an executive who was already on the path but didn’t know it. This episode shows that mindfulness is neither complex nor mysterious; it just takes practice. More importantly, this episode puts forward the idea that all professional and personal development requir...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership, an ongoing series of executive
0:07.4	coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you
0:11.8	want to be perceived.
0:13.0	I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach, and today
0:17.0	we're talking about the mindful executive.
0:20.0	Gerald admitted the incident. executive.
0:23.0	Gerald admitted the incident had happened.
0:26.0	He admitted he'd tossed a marker towards someone during a meeting.
0:30.0	He understood why she thought it had been hostile. He hadn't meant it that way. He had
0:35.4	apologized. Sincerely. Everyone knew he felt badly. He didn't deny it had happened.
0:42.4	The mark He didn't deny it had happened.
0:44.0	The marker tossing incident was only part of what had triggered Gerald's coaching.
0:49.0	His feedback report repeatedly mentioned he also had a habit of interrupting people and that
0:56.6	he was getting better.
0:59.9	Respondents also expressed much frustration about his inability to put down his phone and that he was
1:08.0	getting better.
1:10.3	As with the marker incident, he accepted the feedback.
1:13.4	He added,
1:14.4	I'm glad people notice I'm getting better.
1:17.2	I've been working hard to tame the beast.
1:20.0	He laughed at himself and continued,
1:22.1	that's what I call calming myself down, taming the beast.
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