The Rising Executive

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

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

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This month’s coaching conversation features a newly promoted leader. He and Tom explore the tools needed to build a strong team quickly.

Lots of links this month!

At one point in the episode, Rafael mentions his impostor syndrome. For tools about impostor syndrome, check out:
The Executive Impostor

In the commentary, I mention two books:
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
and
Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

This is the field guide that will show you how to work with your team.

Other related episodes are:
Delivering Tough Feedback

Managing Bad Behavior

The Intentional Leader

Your Team’s Best Interests – Part One

Your Team’s Best Interests – Part Two

There are three filters in the archive that relate to this episode:
Leading Teams
Negative Self-Talk
Perception — How You Perceive Yourself

The archive of Executive Coaching Tips is available at:
http://essentialcomm.com/podcast/

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Be in touch with Tom at:
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As I celebrate the end of this distressing year and look towards a brighter 2021, you are all in my thoughts.

See you next month!

From all of us on “The Look & Sound of Leadership” team — thanks!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership, an ongoing series of
0:06.6	executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the
0:11.4	way you want to be perceived. I'm Tom Henschel. in the executive.
0:23.0	Raphael was two months into running the largest team of his career.
0:27.0	He wasn't certain, but he sensed the CEO was about to pit his new team against another team. If that happened, one team's
0:36.2	business would win out over the others. No jobs would be lost, but years of work
0:41.1	would get suddenly sidelined.
0:43.0	If he was right, if a competition between teams was coming,
0:47.0	Raphael wanted his team to win.
0:50.0	He said,
0:51.0	But it's hard to get everyone pulling together when a lot of them don't even know me.
0:55.0	I mean, maybe they know my name, but I was in a whole other part of the business.
0:59.0	What have you done so far? I asked.
1:01.0	With the team, I'm falling back on my three tried and true tools. I think
1:05.6	they're working. We'll see. What are they? I asked. The first one I learned a long time
1:11.6	ago an old boss of mine used to say people don't know their
1:15.3	jobs. He meant if people weren't clear on their roles and responsibilities it's my
1:20.2	job as team leader to clarify it so I'm talking with people about their jobs.
1:24.8	I said, you're clarifying their roles and responsibilities.
1:28.3	Oh no, no, I don't know their jobs.
1:30.3	I mean, some groups are working on projects I've never heard of before. I just ask a lot of questions.
1:35.2	What are you finding out? Most people are pretty clear about their roles and responsibilities.
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