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The Look & Sound of Leadership

Two Paths to Flow

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A worried leader seeks help finding balance between going with the flow and giving himself a larger voice. Visit our Tools bin for free PDFs to help you achieve The Look & Sound of Leadership. This episode is tagged in three categories in the Podcast Library: Assertiveness Managing Yourself Relationship Building Five related episodes you might listen to are: 21Eliminating Distractions 59 Focus in the Face of Distractions 30Self-Knowledge as Leadership 184 &nbsp...

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the look and sound of leadership.

0:05.6

An ongoing series of executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the

0:09.8

workplace the way you want to be perceived.

0:12.9

I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about two paths to flow.

0:22.7

Patricio came to me with a worry.

0:26.0

He'd been holding this worry in the back of his mind a long time, but a recent incident

0:30.3

pushed it forward.

0:32.4

I'd originally met Patricio when he was on the leadership team at a company where I facilitated

0:38.1

a series of learning sessions.

0:39.8

He was a short-term CFO, parachuting into different companies every three to five years.

0:44.5

The first time I showed up at his company, he was still in his first 90 days.

0:50.0

He and I had connected over being the new kids.

0:53.9

Watching Patricio get to know his colleagues was very positive.

0:58.7

He seemed a friendly, straight shooter, smart, fair-minded with strong people skills.

1:04.3

When he reached out to me now, I was curious to hear what worry was on his mind.

1:10.1

He said, I've been on a series of interviews lately and I'm worried I'm losing my touch.

1:16.2

Your touch?

1:17.2

I asked, what is your touch?

1:19.4

He said, I've always approached interviews with the attitude that I was there to be of service

1:24.0

to them.

1:25.0

They've gotten an agenda, things they want to know.

1:27.0

I show up with the aim of helping them get through their agenda.

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