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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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A worried leader seeks help finding balance between going with the flow and giving himself a larger voice.
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Tom also talked about two books in this episode:
“Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”by Mihaly Csikszentmlhalyi
“The Trust Advisor”by David Maister, et al
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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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